| Show MANY AGENCIES AID EDUCATION Editor of United States Bureau Pays Tribute to Various I Organizations I Washington Sept 4 The The eduCational educational significance of at other than school agencies is emphasized in a current curren sune survey on educational progress Just is issued issued is- is sued b by the United States bureau o ot of education Libraries museums and art aro are unlocking their tr treasure J and s ac seek seek- d k kIng lag Ing Into to establish L a no very direst direct 00 t relation to iu LV organized s school wont OlK K a ac v v. v Carson R Ryan an Jr editor of t th the bureau Numerous other agencies s ani and organizations organ oran are doing a work whose direct ct educational Influence must In tho ho aggregate aggregate ng ag- ag- ag be enormous There arc are 0 educational associations many ny o o 01 them like the National Education n tion and Its branches doln doing direct work in the professional c education o of teachers and school superintendents others like the National Society forthe for forthe or orthe the Promotion of Industrial Education carrying on a propaganda for tor education education tion among the general public and i still others like e the tho Public Education associations of at New York and Phila Phila- delphia Investigating city conditions and stimulating an interest In education education tion amon among the people of ot the local com com- Organizations like the Russell Sago Sage foundation the New v York Bureau Bureau Bu- Bu reau of Municipal Research the CarneIle Carnegie Carnegie Carne Carne- gie Ile foundation and the General Education Education Education tion board have brou brought ht into the work of or education the welcome Influence of or oran an impersonal scientific Judgment No 0 record of or the year car in education would be complete that did not pay tribute tt to the work thes these thelle e organizations and others of ot the kind are doing I J du Hon o of Local Comi n Colleges College universities and normal schools are arc going far beyond Leond their own walls in carrying education to the local communities Nearly half the colleges In tho the United States did ld id extension work work last year ear Tho Thu federal government Itself Is realizing as never before the desirability of or a wide distribution of ot the scientific Information it has hRs collected collected col cot at large expense of ot time and monc money and many of or the bulletins and circulars Issued b by the government ar arnow are arenow now affecting directly the everyday ella procedure of ot education The Boys Boys' and Girls' Girls club work In the department of agriculture and the circular letter Jetter service service ice Ico of or the bureau of education Illustrate illustrate illus Illus- two different t types p s of ot the information information mation matlon service of or the federal government govern orn government ment both of ot recent development In Inthe tho the two years cars ending Juno 30 30 1914 the bureau of ot education Issued 11 numbers of ot its bulletin representing about a million separate copies and covering co nearly c every r phase of ot educational ed en endeavor en- en 11 denver deavor for the direct use of ot school of ot- ot r Various Or Praised I I A host of ot other othel organizations makIn making mak mak- In ing no claim t to a place in the formal school school system aro arc nevertheless ne doing active work of at a a. direct directly educational nature The bo boy scouts the the tho girl scouts the campfire girls 1115 women's clubs par- par teachers teachers' associations musical so societies societies so- so art centers these centers arc are doing a work whose whoso educational importance Ison is on only beginning to bo be apprehended The influence of or the fraternal organizations is I directly educative The whole vast ast field of religious Instruction In churches lU and Sunday schools Its represents an educational problem heat Is seldom viewed as ouch because of ot the larger larKer spiritual iss tes that aro are felt Celt to be bo In Involved Involved Involved In- In and be because of ot the traditional separation of ot church an and state In America farmers farmers' Institutes institutes tute lecture courses the Grange 4 Young Mens Men's Christian association and Young YounK Women's Christian al association social settlements summer Mummer camps the perlO periodical and newspaper press these press 4 1 are as trul truly c educational agencies as the c schools Y |
