| Show standardized studies not the best fornal education for american youth by DR C W BURR university of pennsylvania aw the schooling of all bos more than ten years old should be enta in the hands of men one fundamental error m our public of our educational system this is true not only ints intellectual but in character formation J all education above the elementary school should be given those worth while about the twelfth or thirteenth year a split toward hand mindedness or book afeld the hand mn boy should be put to work as soon as he shows his trend instead ot kept m school JB the primary purpose of education is to prepare the child f battle of life to make him a worthy citizen scholarship is darrl two aims are moral training to form character and intellectual training in straight thinking ft iff m Is the american public school system the best possible for to pose I 1 doubt it it offers to all children the same mental food in the same way and assumes what every clear thinking man ans be untrue the mental equality of men fa it also assumes that character depends on environment child comes into the world a piece of wax as far as the moral sens mind are concerned and can be molded as those who have the teaching of him desire 1161 this is also untrue conduct and behavior which are the test character depend fundamentally upon heredity and congenial melne environment may modify for good or evil but cannot alter inho qualities can destroy but cannot create ml |
