Show t Value of Research s JI Our pr primary primary mary elementary high and rural schools cover cover over the th training per peri Hods of childhood and youth ouch The fu future future future ture of every ch Id is rs largely largel deter inc me b by bv the r c and progress pro ress made these periods er E Esery Os means Crins should bc e directed llO making the school experience lot not only interesting but products e of thi of th best possible results To do this requires skilled teachers who ho know how 10 to Intel interest est the child in his work nd through sustained interest to get him to do his level lesel best each golden eh choul ol Such hour houe houT Such S l faults not not ot- ot only develop the child s mind but unawares ares he acquires studious studious the habits hibits the real salue alue and motive of all training lIe f E cry Teacher l la a her worthy v of l Ter ner r pro pro fe slOn is a constant student lIer student days never neer ne er end She is al IS ass acquiring information llon which is of two l sources rom n froni her per son l pen e experience nce bJ fron the epe of others which ehe makes her hero o 0 n as rapidly IS as cin sh assimilate t and put it into practice The The pro in this not unlIke that of the ph ph or the th lawyer laer la er who sho pI practice their kno knowledge ledge on their and patients and before the cour courts tA t A doc to 1 or a law lawyer er without recourse lecour e to the thc experience of other doctors or or In rs would ld soon lie Ike without Ith ut pa or without which clients clients marks the difference between quack doctors 01 of sh shyster ster la lawyers ers and those learned in their The people through centuries of ex with Ith the and sate ate schools and nearl nearly a century of publIc schools have found out the great ad antage ad of the latter over th- th ormer They know that the greatest gle ad ance in the affairs a of the world orId IS in 10 those nations which hive have made edu education cation cahon a public function and a n public responsibility the pub Lc school and the public library have hwe become for all time fixed Institutions nut But to grow and solve the increasing problems of society there must be placed in 10 the hinds hands of the t teacher acher the In latest test facts fads and practices of the professIOn Those arc are obtained through research ind and investigation of the facts ind and practices existing in 10 schools all over the country and the th cIvIlIzed world orId We e say the Cl ci II world orId because the experience and the problems of the cIvIlized world orld ire are all pretty much the same md and so so related as to be invaluable 10 to each pact pait pal t What the teachers te and the admin e offIcials officials of our sch ls need art an facts and yet more facts l er they must hake have hae facts and yet vet ct more re facts if education is to solve the thew the sp s cial economies economics ind and political problems of an increasingly complex comple civilization tion The They must have hale them or our wil fall for the want ant of or r r greit great t s vision ISlon to supply them for them teaching 01 of the development the of-the of mind is a never ne erding process which must be sustained with Ith the constant addition of new educational matter applIcable to the needs of the hour i Now Nosy of the 63 aced to the cause of education by th the National GO Government in 1026 1926 only was as allowed cd the Bureau of Education to cover corer all of its normal actIvIties Only a part of which how ho however eser went ent for research and Invests gatlOn gation Yet et assuming that all that th the Bureau received ed went scent for this tIlIS purpose the ratio laho would be one dollar to the san services Ices of elementary mar high and rural schools to Ion for the other educational activities of the Rational National abonal Government GO However the educators of the coun countr country country tr try and those who ho are arc urging a Department De of education are arc not corn com because of the de devoted voted to other educational actIVIties but maintain that since the clemen tar tars primary rural and high schools hold first place in the development of I the mint mina mm they he hev should receive services worthy of their importance to the chIld and fo to o the nation il j I Ii I is for a fair fall d deal dealto deal al to to o the the school schoolchildren t r i of the whole nation have Ve I been going on before the National I Con Congress ress for nearly nearl two generatIOns Some progress has been made and t the e countr country is now on the threshold of a great z V which will result In Inthe Inthe Inthe the cr tl n of a Department of Edy Ed Edu Education cation cahon that will recognize the import import- importance importance ance of the child and youth as aswell aswell well as other na national factors in edu education cation i R |