Show i o fJ 0 C ii GirL e y Ii 1 f m r V i y y Id Begin With of f or f Children the Cry the Leaders of the Nations an and the Great j 1 i J Work W ork Reaches the Ends of o the Earth v f V t t b t I J j x 1 4 I 1 IPG Ci d b A Kt r 5 K t x Group i 1 of U f J 9 ti x r Filipino i tr 1 1 r Hawaiian 1 i r AMY y a 1 r r J Youngster j r L' L arS ar'S s t S School C h 00 1 f od 3 J L Ls ar f x rt t k r I t N 1 9 r A I Boys Bos v T t-r t 4 4 f VV V 1 I I t y V. V tA Nr id h y Y i 1 t M MY L t it r. r s fP f q p t r y ar arm r J I r m A 1 1 0 4 Arl to Fr r t- t y t f M i y 1 K 1 rI- rI r r r. r r rI r h ll Lr j sas K r r V r-V o of f J r r i Ri r tin air M r A Girl of Java t 4 f Y C j jJ r R I 1 ri J ft rr H fit 61 fr s' s j y R i f I On the Left a 1 Freckled Mexican i- i Child In Corner of R Pale Page a Japanese f t Little Mother f v 2 Below Three Corean organ N r rY Y Children en I By Clive Marshall 1 C the world bc began nn an to emerge from front the f of the war the cry raised raise during durin the war itself an and repeated again agnin and again rose to full volume Let us us make the world right by beginning inning with the children The whole matter o of wars was traced to bad thinking thinking- and bad thinking began in the neglect the of-the children of the world II H. G. G Wells VeIls and other novelists with hundreds of writers in all p parts of the world have risen as ai never ne before to insist that education has been wrong P Particularly wrong wrung of course has been the tragedy of no e education at all The nation which today is in particular turmoil turmoil tur tur- moil which precipitated the most calamitous revolution lb 1 is the nation that was content to permit per per- mit the vast majority of its people to be illiterate The penalty has been fri frightful Untaught rance rebelled The upheaval val has stirred and frightened the world The nations are beginning to heed the warn warn- ing One after the other they have hn been turning their attention atte to this perhaps most vital of all subjects next to sul subsistence itself Dr Nicholas Murray Butler has been speaking of this vast movement movement movement-in in France in Italy in England in inthe inthe inthe the United Unite States Discussing a t typical move move- meat ment he says Of or all nIl the great peoples England came last into the field held with a vital ital and overwhelming impulse impulse impulse im im- pulse for popular e education and she has proceeded pro pro- cee ed to deal with this now that she has felt it it in true Saxon Anglo fashion No theoretically perfect system no special philosophy o of education has ever been accepted as the ui g-ui guide e of British policy Instead the English people have addressed themselves in a hardheaded hard- hard hea headed and highly highl practical fashion to the problem lent lem of dealing lealin with conditions as they actually exist indeed exist indeed to the problem of dealing ealing with conditions conditions con con- as the white light of war conditions shove showed 1 them to exist at the moment and dealing with them in the very best wa way possible The serene self-confidence self of the British nation nation na na- na tion never showed showe to better a advantage antage than when Parliament took time in the darkest days ays of the war wai when England's Englan s 's very existence was threatened threatened threatened threat threat- ened to recast the entire educational system of England Englan and Vales Wales under the leadership of Sir Herbert Fisher The rhe British nation had time and thought for this task even in the midst of war T J Jand and no other great nation ever er has approached th the grandeur of an achievement ement of this sort in to 0 circumstances even evert approximating those in ill which Great Britain accomplished it Dr 01 Butler points out that religious issues naturally nat nat- naturally affect all educational movements If this is true of nations like those just mentioned imagine imag- imag inc ine it its complications in remote te parts part of the earth Imagine its bearings in Java or China Chirm or Africa Religion and life are so intimately interwoven particularly among the more simple peoples that getting at the children becomes immensely difficult difficult dif dif- if clashes with religious systems are to lo be e avoided Nevertheless ss by adroit approach ach by emphasis on simple principles of teaching simple principles of clean living th the pioneer i neer edl educators ator in the far places of the earth th are arc doing oin a wonderful wonderful wonder wonder- ful work For example the missionaries of the Methodist l Episcopal Church are working on newer and ami broader lines As pointed out by the M. 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E Centenary Commission this work is extraordinarily extraordinarily ex ex- wide A glance at ut the faces on this page e will suggest something of the ethnological ethnologic l scope of the en endeavor eavor that is now being directed toward the lifting of the worlds world's children The diversity of these races will suggest how peculiar must be the problems to be faced by those who o. o would begin beg with the children If it is true that religion must be considered in putting forward forward for for- ward the basic things of real civilization fancy the situation in regions so various ar ous an and prejudices deeply ingrained so picturesquely different And yet yet here here is the cheering fact fact fact-a a great awakening seems to have come upon the world an awakening which even very ery simple minds are able to understand A sense of something wron wrong with s systems stems and ideals systems and i ideals cals that result in conflicts so disastrous oppressions so intolerable ble helplessness so complete has permeated permeated the whole earth and a kind of intuitive recognition nit on that education can do something good for all nJ peoples has made it less difficult to reach all peoples than it ever eyer was before Civilized peoples would be astonished to see sec certain crowded crowd crowd- ed schoolhouses in regions where crowded schoolhouses schoolhouses school school- houses never before existed existe The rhe world seems indeed to have set its heart henrt hearton on beginning with th the children Surely wonderful results will follow an awakening so momentous i t J 0 o. o i Ii 1 r f 3 q Ir i S. 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