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4 THE SCHOOL NEWS Declaration of the National Education Association September, 1908 The New Academy Teachers. Miss Alice M. Williams, who takes. Miss Aten's place as teacher of Latin, was born in Ramapatam, India, the daughter of missionar- The National Education association at Cleveland in July issued a declaration from which the following is clipped. These declarations are worthy of our consideration coming as they do from the highest educational body in the United States.

1 1 We recommend the sacrifice of quantity to an improvement in the quality of instruction and we hold that no course of study should be so advanced or so rigid as to prevent instruction to any student in the essentials of the common English branches." "Courses of study should be adapted to the pupils, rather than that the pupils should be adapted to fixed courses of study and an inflexible system of grading." "The public high schools should not be chiefly fitting schools for higher institutions, but should be adapted to the general needs. "There is concededly a grave moral depression in our business and social atmosphere. We earnestly recommend the continuous training in morals, and in business and professional. ethics, to the end that the coming generation of men of affairs may have a well-developed abhorrence of unfair dealing ies. She was educated in the National City Ugh school in California and Ottawa university, graduating in 1905.

While a student in the university she taught Latin in the academic department. She has also taught history in the Chilli-cothe, High school. Miss Williams helds a Ph. B. degreo and a life certificate.

and discrimination. The establishment of the honor system in schools, the ostracism of the dishonest or unfair pupil, the daily exemplification in the routine life of the school of the advantage of honest and truthful methods, are commended to the especial attention of teachers as a partial means to this end." "The National Education association wishes to record its approval of the increasing appreciation among educators of the fact that the building of character is the real aim of the schools and the ultimate reason for the expenditure of millions for their maintenance. There are in the minds of the children and youth of today a tendency toward a disregard for constituted authority, a lack of respect for age and superior wisdom, a weak appreciation of the demands of duty, a disposition to follow pleasure and interest rather than obligation and order. This condition demands the earliest thought and action of our leaders of opinion and places important obligations upon school boards, superintendents and teachers." "It is apparent that familiarity with the English Bible as a masterpiece of literature is rapidly decreasing among the pupils in our schools. This is the direct result of a conception which regards the Bible as a theological book merely, and thereby leads to its exclusion from the schools of some states as a subject of reading and study.

We hope for such a change of public sentiment in this regard as will permit and encourage the reading and study of the English Bible, as a literary work of the highest and purest type, side by side with the poetry and prose which it has inspired and in large part formed." Subscribe for The School News. CHOICE MEATS. The primest and choicest meats in the city. No matter what your requirements may be you will find we are in the best of positions to handle all your order for meats, poultry, etc. Prompt attention given to all orders.

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