Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-02-24 | Page 9 | Politics Scored in School Work

unes stoRm SCORED IN S SCHOOL HOOl WORK WOR K E. E A. A Condemns System of Selecting Superintendents Superintendents I dents by Popular Vote I 1 WASHINGTON W WASHINGTON Feb reb 24 CAP APo AP- AP iwo o complaints against the s system stem many any states of electing county chool hool superintendents by popular allot were made In to- to to ay units of ot the department of ot up of the National Ed- Ed cation association e department of rural lon on was urged by Miss Florence Flotence Hale ale ale supervisor of rural lon ion loir In Maine to work wo that our up may be leading ed editors editors' ed- ed alors' alors and not leading la sans s. s The office should be taken politics she said so that the shall not have to 0 pend a considerable portion tJ of his hH hism Irne m me in preparing for the next Eleon elec- elec on lon and in out the non- non candidate who often I in favor by the type of appeal at Is Js good enough l' l for foi l' l our fas fah fa- fa hers h s Is la good enough for us us' us I T rr omas W W. Butcher president nt of e I ansas State Teachers' Teachers college I lit d the e National Council Counell of l lon ii that a horde hordo of untrained d hers eachers hers continue to find positions position's In rural schools where the for training then them falls the county superintendent Unfortunately he said sald this f is chosen in mos nos of or our to tares taps es by popular ballot and is s too a man who is unfitted to un- un the training o 0 of these teach teach- s Criticism of or new methods of mak- mak Ing courses of ot study In public schools was voiced by Fred Frederick S S. Breed assistant professor of t education education tion at the University o c. cC ChIc i j before a Joint cession of he the tion Research Reseat ch association and the tho National Society of College Teachers Teach Teach- ers erg of Education CURRICULUMS REFORM We Ve are living in a period of stimulating elating curriculum reform he sid said During the past quarter of a century century century cen cen- tury the curriculum has been guided guided guid guid- ed largely by the behavior of children children chil chil- dren now It is to be based on the behavior o of adults He cited re results results re- re results of ot scientific s stu to show v that courses of ot stud study patterned on the daily lives of ol adults is quate A warning that incalculable harm may be done by giving children paralyzing in inferiority complexes was sounded by Armani R. R Miller 1 ill cr prIncipal of 1 nl y High school St St. Louis Mo 1 to t tae National Association Association As As- Association of Secondary School Principals He declared too touch much publicity of ot the tion of ot students might lead to demoralizIng talk of mutt classes dumbbells and morons