| Show WHERE SCHOOLS FAIL I I I Are Not in Touch With the I Worlds Work I CHARGE OF DR BOONE Causes a Sensation Among the Local Teachers Holds That More Is Being Done to Elevate Society Outside of the Schoolo Than Inside The final lecture ol the course delivered deliv-ered to the teachers of this city by Dr R C Boone of Boston In Bnrratt hall was only fairly well intended A good portion of the teachers were there because be-cause they had attended before and knew the value of Dr Boones talks but school patrons failed to appreciate the opportunity to hear the eminent I educator and very few of these attended at-tended The main object of Dr Boones discourses = dis-courses on educational subjects seems to be < to give the teachers a broader conception of their duties and their opportunities op-portunities to the end that the schools and the other institutions of the community com-munity the State and the nation maybe may-be brought Into closer touch the one with the oilier In other words to widen wid-en the Held of the teachers usefulness In a practical way In his lecture last night which was entitled NonSchool Agencies DI Boone made the rather startling statement state-ment that society Is doing more In an educational way > outside of the school than the school Itself Is doing He referred re-ferred to the work being done by clubs of various kinds by literary and scientific scien-tific societies by historical associations and civic organizations by Government Govern-ment Institutions public libraries lecture lec-ture bureaus newspapers and magazines maga-zines and similar means of dlssemlnat lag useful knowledge and information The school he said Imparted Information Informa-tion to the young which could pot be gained from other sources but his Idea l was that the other agencies were really excelling the schools In the employment employ-ment of progressive means of elevating society The moral was that the schools should profit by adopting ao ur as practicable some of the more progressive measures which are being used to such good advantage In other movements that there should be closer clos-er relations between the schools and the world outside the school The speaker pointed out to the teachers many ways In which this could be accomplished ac-complished to advantage and the lecture lec-ture proved both helpful and entertaining enter-taining as have all the doctors efforts In the course which this completed |
