| Show Supt R. R S. S Chipman Tells of Trip TripI I to Administrators Administrators' Meeting COAL COALVILLE COALVILLE- VI LU- LU This Is about Mr R R. R S. S Chipman's Chip Chip- mans man's trip to the American As AJ Association Aa- Aa sedation of ot School toro torn Atlantic City New Jersey I it It started Feb 16 Some of ot the main speakers were Francis Keppel US U.S. Commission Commissioner lonea lon er ea of ot E Education lU c Tobias Tablas R. R Weaver Wea Wea- Weaver ver fr Department De t Secretary ot of London England ble Lyndon Lyn don B D. John Johnson on Vice President el et elthe r the United States The American Association of I School Administrators Convention i held at Atlantic City New Jersey Feb 1620 16 1963 whose theme was was I I School Administration Keeps Pace With Space featured National National Na Na- and International personalities person whose contributions buttons w were re most outstanding British Plan Ilan I British Deputy Secretary of Education Tobias R. R Weaver compared British and arid American I Administration of Schools He lie sal said speaking of ot t tie the e British We Weare Weare are aro more mere centralized than you national education is a function of central government nt The Minister of or Education ri Is s a a member of the Cabinet But he does not determine deter deter- determine deter deter- C m mine ne the curriculum of the schools and the government does not qt qt hIre hire t the teachers teachers Teachers are are hired by by p the I locally caly elected elect elect- ed authorities which als also take care of many other details The curriculum is in the 1 hands of the teachers The The Th English act first and then deduce their goals from what they have hav done The late William Temple wrote The Thie aim alin of education education tion is the d development me t of Or everything every every- thing about a a. a man which distinguishes distinguishes distin distin- him from an animal or a the machine the discipline of intelligence intelligence intelli intelli- I gence the quickening of Imagination tion and the widening of at sym sym- i ipa pah by Our teach teachers eN are concerned concern o ed d to reach these goals j jGolden Golden Keys Herbert Lawrence wrence Block known as Washington Posts Post's J and his teacher Mim Helen Harris Harris Har Har- ris of Evanston Illinois were awarded golden keys keyn for 1963 Mr is a noted educational cartoonist and Miss Harris was his English teacher who sparked his interest In Journalism Mr Block twice winner of the Pulitzer Pulitzer zer Prize for his widely syndi syndicated cat d cartoOns cartoons has been termed b bj another Pulitzer Prize winner poet Archibald a ia masterful masterful masterful mas- mas mas mas- satirist one of the principal principal prin prin- cipal defenders of the Republic Mr Block Is the recipient ot of many Journalism awards During the fifth general session ses ses- session sion John A. A Perkins President of ot the University of Delaware said uld The Future Is Obsolete He stated further Change is the normal and not the unusual the I central reality of our times What I Is perhaps new and in need ot of wider appreciation is the rate of change in our times That man is as all Mark Twain suggested unique in that he be has a conscience Science puts us all In Jeopardy because e mans man's conscience has not matured commensurately w with wit f t h science Education is needed which will wUl produce the better I I people critically needed in our future we still know little about I how JIOW to produce these good peo peo- pie Character has lias been defined a. a nt what we e do in the dark Today I i It H may be redefined as what we weI wedo wedo I do on the of metropolitan metro metro- poll politan tan life liCe with urbanization land and with public schools steadfast I adhere adherents ts to the separation of church and state it Is harder to educate young oung people veople for high character Vice I President Speaks Vice President Lyndon B. B I Johnson whose speech was enI en- en I titled Our Staying StaYing Power Power Key to Ultimate Success brought the plaudits of ot the School Adminis He rte said Bald In world affairs at af fairs lairs now we Ve are passing through a a period enod of ot one change change one of ot the I roost most r El such ch periods In I history in it is difficult to achieve answers which are both quick and responsible As seldom I b before lore fore the hasty answer is unlikely unlikely unlikely un likely to be the right and lasting answer It is most moet i Important to our national success that we understand under stand first firs that only the strong can afford to o be patient and sec see I I ond that the tide of ot world affair Is running with with us n not us-not not t against UH and us-and and that our staying power Is I the tho key ey to our ultimate Furthermore he added As a people we of ot America must reexamine re re- examine our national attitudes We will deny and and nd beira betray the oPportunity op opportunity opportunity oP- oP op- op of the future if It we fall fail to recognize the strength of our I national position today We can not win the future if It we allow our confidence to be impaired by false cries of those who monger the ides idea that we are losing the present Our efforts as a nation our sacrifices as a people people have have have preserved freedom ag against the high tide of Communist danger Our success In the past permits us to have confidence in the future fu fu- fu ture and ture-and and Americans mU must t carry such Buch confidence into the period of ot challenge and change which will dominate the remaining years of this century |
