Show SCHOOL PROGRAMS IT IS entirely within the facts to suy say that among all the enterprises or of the people no other outranks ou that of 0 education either in its size or in its potential results every day there goes into the elementary secondary collegiate technical arid and professional schools of this nation practically one fifth of our entire population writes dr pa eon smith massachusetts commissioner of afon lit in the united states dally daily lie ile continues in part alve we may with great pride note t alie be achievements ot of tile lie past it Is possible even to foresee lit at least to some extent what hat the t schools of the uhl jill I 1 it Is clear that those schools will place increasing emphasis upon the individual hild child and lit ills 3 needs fixed and te courses 0 of study making exactly the same dyl requirements of every eiery child are alrea already being discarded lit la favor faor of more flexible programs that make allou allowance ance for tile the infinite tarle varieties ties of taste talent and capacity which exist among chil children dien tile the schools of the future profiting by the lessons of the past will place less leba tress upon preparation and more upon growth arid and development the concern of education win will increasingly be to bring to bear upon the child tho those thoe e influences and agencies will help lint to attain the highest physical mental arid and moral stature which it Is possible for lint him to reach observant Ob parents are finding that the schools are organ organizing iving their i work or k so ho that these ends may be reached the old fashioned spool whose praises are so often sung deserved many of the good things that uele vicie said oi of it its most enthusiastic admirers limi however ever would tild be compelled to admit that its instruction in matters of immediate concern was as often far more theoretical than it was practical take tor for example the matter of health all will ulli agree that an all education 1 which welt develops the mind at the expense of the body may be of doubtful value in con contributing to a life of happiness and usefulness it should be therefore ther there etoie foie a source of satisfaction that the modern Is paving so much attention to the development of play arid and ganes gaines in which all C can n take part and lit in bringing children to understand how low to caie for those bodies chich are the temples of mind and lid soul among all the contributions to be made through there is none more important than that of sound moral I 1 clia character schools school both public and private ate are arc accepting a major challenge of the present day clay which Is that of bringing couth into the most intricate social and industrial life that the world lias has ever eier known armed with those powerful weapons vie apons which at alone one will be sufficient nal namely nely sincerity straight forwardness thoughtfulness lionor honor recognition of the rights ot of others and a zeal for justice every well M all w wisher illier ot of america must rejoice that tile the schools of our nation are bend bending I 1 n their efforts so vigorously to programs r rains of character education let lit it P not be supposed that tills this work Is being etione done lit in a purely academic fash fashion lon every imitation every and demonstration every eiery game on playground ground and recreation field contributes each its op for the development of these characteristics of which the world sill mill alnas ainars stand bland in fix so great need in greater degree than in the p past Is our schools of the future will help yot young n mm en and nomen to find d tile vocations for or chich they are adapted and will III help to train them to foi their life work the th e industrial du life of our abels so complex mple and intricate that youth stands perplexed in the face of the great question as to aliat ahat liat nork he Is best filled to do and how to get into that work after lie he knows what ahat lie he wants to do this means of course that hut opportunities tor for trade technical and professional education must tte be greatly increased |