Show permanence IN SCHOOL WORK contributed there is perhaps no greater a aa set to any commom than ban a first class school of weight and standing be it either high school prop prep school college or university it imparts to the community a tons tone that noth each ing else can gie good school towns are invariably advanced corn core mum t ise but it is IB more with the building I 1 of such schools than with their work ingot infra and influence that we wish to deal in this thia article to attain success a school must acquire thel character of permanence this thia is only done by adopting a settled policy and adhering to it the bane of thousands of schools la is the lack of such policy and the one vital ire reason A why these schools dolack do lack such auch settled purpose is 19 that there is IB no element of permanence in their nom management geme nt there isa is a radical defect in the ach school achi I laws law of most states at least as regards the public schools it if there la is one american institution in which politics should have no place it is 13 in our institutions institution s of ol learning earning yet it is just here that its pernicious effects are frequently most notice able first under the system of board management usually by adopted these boards are constantly changing old members and adding new ones no sooner is a course mapped out by one board than its successors come right along alone and hange change the whole thing the head bead of the school who is perfectly satisfactory to one board may be most objectionable to the next he may have instituted most worthy movements and may have been buce success fully carrying them out but this weighs not at all with the politicians who control his bis actions by virtue of their board memberships he must give place to another selected elected many times now through partisanship or by fa vontism the consequence is that whatever good work he be b has beeson accod Zoned ched is often aba abandoned and an entirety entirely different course mapped out with the result that the school gets nowhere and accomplishes nothing of a permanent store nature no school will acquire any per manenty or weigh weighting tin its community where such euch shifting policy is in practice rather we should say that such shiftless hift lees lack of policy successful schools require time and labor to build up A permanent policy must be established and adhered to then the right head must most be chown chosen and kept no man can produce his best beat work in a school in one year or two years or even five years yeara he must have time time ti to lay a substantial foundation upon which to erect a superstructure and time in which to erect that superstructure the influential schools school of the country both free and private are the re suit of years of patient effort and steadfastly adhering to a settled molicy if 00 would have a school of which you can be proud form set tied plans for it select the right i head and put him in m charge and then keep him and loyally support him any oth other er course I 1 la is a waste of time and effort |