Show P 1 I EDUCATION WEEK EEK Education Week Is to be ixl od In the schools of ManU Mantl as well as asIn In e every ery city and village of our great reat nation The ends to be accomplished accomplished ac ac- are Important and It t is well that our local u Institutions bealert bealert be bo alert and active In this matter Alexander J J. J Stoddard superintendent superintendent superintendent of the schools of Df Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadel Philadel- phia and chairman of the education education- week movement has hns the following to say I The Educational Policies Com Com- has been very pleased to notice notIce notice no no- I tice that the themes for American Edu Education atlon Week in 1939 emphasize certain Issues in American life andIn andIn and nud In American education which we believe believe be be- lieve are especially worthy of public I attention just now I I Four of these great ideals have seemed to the Educational Policies I Commission to be worthy worth of especial attention these ideals are stressed I in our aur volume on The Purposes of i Education In American Democracy i j I they have become tho the official themes during four of the days of or Ameri Amerl- I can Education Week this year rear Self realization tIon is the first purPOSe purpose purpose pur pur- pose of education in our democracy Our schools seek seck to develop inquiring inquiring ing minds to kindle Imagination to develop sound emotional mental and physical health to enable each child to share in the cultural arts which ute constitute humanity's s heritage hori heri I tage from the past and to deY develop op the sturdy personality and character without which all other education Is useless if tf not positively harmful Economic efficiency Is a second great purpose of education Our schools should prepare boys bOs and girls to contribute gladly and effectively effectively ef ef- I er-I to the production of or the goods and services which taken to together together to- to I fo-I get gether er make up the American standard standard stan stan- stan stan-I dard of or living Our schools should develop in all of us is adults adul as well V as children a grasp or of economic problems that will help us to deal intelligently with the tIle production distribution and use of wealth our schools should be seriously engaged in education consumers rs with a high wealth sense of values so that the of or the nation may not be dissipated I I I I I I I and misused used in the production of ot worthless or harmful things I Human relationships are a third Important responsibility of tion Particularly within the family family ly h- hIt It Is necessary to develop the I skill the and the habits I which make it possible for us to get along with ith other people It Is fortunate that thaI education for successful successful success success- ful fn family and community life is jS bAi bo- bo coming i comin an important part of the I program ram of or public education As AJ citizens learn and practice in their I homes and in their neighborhoods that respect for the common welfare welfare welfare wel wel- fare which is essential in the democratic democratic demo demo- cratic way of or life Ufe they will be in inspired tn- tn to behave in d democratic fashions fa Ia in wider relationships and democracy in the nation will receive fresh impetus at its source Civic Ic responsibility Is a fourth J great purpose purpose of education In this country The good society in the United States is a democratic society so so- one ciet one which respects the 11 homan homan ho- ho a. a man soul as something sacred We Ve believe in promoting the general welfare a broad interest In the welfare wel fare tare of the other ether fellow fello freedom of or speech religion petition assem assern- assembly bly and the press an intelligent und and untrammeled ballot the use of reason reason reason rea rea- son in composing differences dUft ana the opportunity for everyone to seek in his own wa way to achieve tho the great gront task of happiness |