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Show in the future. The forces of democracy demo-cracy demand that ultimately it be distributed fairly to the advantage of all the people. "This will be accomplished in part by shortening the working week and the working day. But some of it will al.'.o rw-crue to the youth of the Nation Na-tion in a longer periud of formal education. edu-cation. "The latter movement will place upon educators the responsibility for working out new methods of teaching teach-ing and a new curriculum, for educa-tic educa-tic n on the secondary and higher levels lev-els has never before been offered to other than a small percentage of the people with brains best adapted to mastering books and a few who can acquire technical manual skills. As new kinds of minds enter the schools, new devices in education must be developed. de-veloped. "It may be asked what would we do with these boys and girls if by legislative enactment we were compelled com-pelled to take care-of all of them in our schools until they were 17, 18, or perhaps even 21 years' of age. "I offer here three suggestions: The educator today must somehow or other keep the young citizens of tomorrow to-morrow in school. "First, until he can prepare him better to utilize the leisure time which he will have as an adult. "Second, to help him establish the habits and acquire the knowledge which will enable him to care properly pro-perly for his health;-and "Third, to afford him information and the desire to vote intelligently in a social organization which depends on him as a citizen not only of his city, county, state and nation, but in very fact, of the world, and to enable en-able him the better to do his part in solving problems increasingly economic eco-nomic in character and international in scope." SCHOOLS MUST PREPARE YOUTH FOR NEW PROBLEMS. The public schools have the responsibility res-ponsibility of preparing the youth to meet the changing conditions of the social order, writes William John Cooper, United States Commissoner of Education, in an article in the United States Daily. He urged that teachers prepare their pupils to meet and successfully cope with the problems prob-lems with which they will be faced in life. The article reads, in part: "Obviously, in a civilization changing chang-ing so rapidly, as is the present, the teacher's most valuable contribution to his pupils consists in showing them how to face problems fearlessly and attack them scientifically. "But he will also need to make some additions to their usual equipment. equip-ment. Surveying the age in which he lives himself, he must select those trends which seem most significant and help his charges to develop in their youth those habits and attitudes which will serve them in good stead in their adult years. "In the past such leisure time as a civilization has been able to accumulate accumu-late has been preempted by a special spec-ial class. There can be little doubt in the minds of students of society about the disposition of such leisure time |