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Show EDUCATION AND THE LIBRARY. The education, should not end with the clnss room, and that it involves in-volves more than is learned in the class room, Is the thought expressed in a speech made recently by Carl H. Milam, secretary of the American Ameri-can Library flssociatloin, at Minneapolis- He stressed the public library li-brary as the great after-school course of education. Everything the library does, is to some extent educational, edu-cational, Mr. Milam said, and libraries libr-aries are now experimenting with a type of adult education service designed de-signed to increase their usefulness to men and women who wish to continue con-tinue their education out of school. "Education is not synonomous with schools or teaching, Mr. Milam Mi-lam asserted. "Every child is educated edu-cated not only by the schools but by his contracts, experiences, by what he sees, hears and does and by what he reads. Although we put on to the teachers most of the blame for our uneducated and poorly educated, edu-cated, we should agree that the better bet-ter part of every man's education is that which he gives himself. "There is a growing recognition that Americo needs a thoroughly educated citizenship, and we are coming gradually to realize that no ,man is educated if he stops learning learn-ing when he leaves school. The world movement for adult education is now felt and it gives to all agencies agen-cies for adult education an opportunity oppor-tunity to inrre:i-e tho'r usefu-iiess "If the libraries see and meet this opportunity we may expect them to add to their staffs not only general educational advisors, but specialists in the several important fields, men and women of the type of high school teachers and college professors, who will be available for the preparation of reading courses cour-ses and give advice to the students as he follows out his course of reading. read-ing. In all probability these specialists special-ists will not be teachers; they will be advisors to the independent student stu-dent "The library by organized effort, by establishing personal contacts outside by haveing at the library persons who can take time to give personal advice, by having enough copies of needed books to meet demands de-mands promptly, can help materially material-ly to prevent boys and girls from continuing or becoming uneducated citizens. |
