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Show U. OF V. XEWS BUREAU "Character-education and training for citizenship were the problems disxussed in many of the meetings of the national educational council:" said Milton Bennlon, dean of the school of education at the University, Universi-ty, on his return from conventions of the National Educational association associa-tion held in Cleveland, February 24 to March 1. "There is general recognition among leading educators of the necessity nec-essity of giving primary atentlon to this phase of education," continues Dean Bennlon. "Even In higher and professional schools it Is recognized that character education is more fundamental fun-damental than scholastic attainment, This statement, however, is not deigned de-igned to disparage In any way the value of scholarship. Much attention was given to the reconstruction of the course of study that it may con-tr con-tr ibute more fully to the development develop-ment of the social and: moral qualities of pupils. "While the American people generally gen-erally are having trouble In financing their school systems, they are recognizing recog-nizing It as primarily a question of the return that they are to receive for the money invested, that is, economy econ-omy does not consist in spending less but in getting greater values." |