Show KEEP SCHOOLS SCHOOLS i I FREE The school school t teachers ach rs who met In Washington at th the conven con convention tion of the the National Education as- as association as association sen served cd the best Inter Interests ests est of the whole nation when they passed a resolution warning making lawmaking bodies of all varieties to keep their hands oil off the school schoolrooms rooms rooms- Only that edu education atlon can be tree tree the resolution declared which provides provides- under conditions appropriate to the age ae of ot the the stu- stu student stu student cent dent complete liberty to td seek the answer to any honest question It added that leti legislation laUon ci cito to Influence wh what t cau can candor or cannot cannot be taught In a cl m can caa Im pede progress but cannot shut abut shut f the light of oC truth These are faIrly obvious truths but they need restating from time timeto timeto timeto to time Theoretically of of course the fhe peo peo- people peo- peo people plo who ho pay the ta tae taxes e have ha the the full and unquestioned right to say what will wll be taught In their ther And yet It Is 13 s a right t that at should not often orten be exercised The whole theory theory of oC our out our great educational system with Its splendid splendid did public schools and and great great- state tale universities is to provIde ou out youn young people with a training and an an education that will make them them better setter people are than we are are that win will enable them to avoid the we stumbled Into to steer steer- cle cier r of oC the he mistakes and blind nesses neues that have ave marked our own wn Weare building for tor the future and tado td to do so BO we must a al always a ways aim Im at a system that Ill I make each cach generation a little mUe wIser and more capable than the theone theone theone one before And to carry out such a scheme It Is es essential that t the e work be be beut ut in the bands of oC expert train trained ed ud men and women who have aade ade study and teaching their lifework life lICe work ork who ho know more about such things than than the rest rest of ui us know w Yet It If our state legislatures or national congress butting tn in inami and ami Insh Insisting This you may teach the whole hole plan Is la ruined It If w wa who ho not are experts In the he matter of oC education Insist on ox- ox ex exercising control tn th the our out right rib to teaching In our schools schools- we e are destroyIng the work of our cx- cx ex experts ports perU and compelling our children to follow blindly In our own on foot fool footsteps toot steps steps In other word words we are requirIng our teachers teacher not to profit by our mistakes not to give our chIld children reo a better training than we ye- ye re n received we are making makinI It able able that th t our children will have no better chance In la life Ufa than we our our- ourselves our selves had And AndI I what Cather father worthy of ot the name did not want ant hIs son to to be a better man than he was wasT I Dr Alexander spoke spoken In n somewhat the same vein b for the Rotary club at Madison WIs the other day He complimented hIs hearers hearers for tor the freedom that thatIs thatIs thatIs Is to be found at nt the University of Wisconsin and said In In a place like this one dares hope that sympathy and Insight are bringing and will bring the difficulties that confront the schol scho- scholar ar under control To To succeed In that would be to take the lead In American scholarshIp scholarship and teaching Into the service of oC Amer Amer- AmerIcan American ican living Dr Is right so la is the National Education Our schools must be unfettered Otherwise our freedom and hope of progress are In danger at |