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FRIDAY. DECEMBER 8. 1944"
THE LITTLE RED
SCHOOLHOUSE
American education has
come a long way since
Abraham Lincoln had to
walk seven miles to bor-i
row a book which he then
studied by the flickering,
unsatisfactory light from a
log cabin fireplace. It still
has a long way to go, as is
made clear by the reports
presented to the White
House Conference on Ru
ral Education.
Despite the educational!
program of recent years,1
especially the organization
of rural district schools
equipped with suitable
laboratories and gymnas
iums and staffed with well
trained teachers, the over
romanticized little red
schoolhouse still houses a
big percentage of our
school population. It isn’t
good enough.
. | Evefn more distressing
than the rural educators’
reports on the inadequacy
of school buildings is the
record of the salaries paid!
to the teachers and * the
•
. consequent failure to at
tract educated educators to
• rural school jobs. Some re
ceive a bare subsistence
wage. No matter how thin
you slice the cost of living,
$12 a week doesn’t make!
for very heavy eating. A
good teacher is even more
important than a good j
school. He can overcome
poor equipmnnt. President
Garfield said of Mark Hop
kins of Williams that a
university was “Hopkins:
on one end of a log and a J
student on the other.” The j
finest school building in the
world cannot make up for
inadequate mental equip
ment of the teachers.
All the wonders of the
continents, the seas around
them and the skies over
them, the accumulated
knowledge of the centuries,
are in the textbooks of to
day. But for too many
young Americans the in
formation is locked there
as securely as if it were in
the gold vaults at Fort
Knox, Kentucky. Only a
trained educator can pro
vide the key. As a further
matter of fact, even the
trained educator needs an
extra sort of spark the ig
nition and communication
of which needs a sedulous
nursing. If he plies his art
in a well-lighted, well
heated, well-aired build
ing, with a laboratory
where he can prove the!
laws he expounds, he has
a more responsive aud
ience. Sustained respon
siveness in child audiences
is a rare and difficult at-1
mosphere to bring about
The Lincoln*, manage to
teach themselves. Most of
us are not that well en
dowed with brains. It is to
be hoped that a real “Char
ter for Rural Education”
will come out of the Wash
ington meetings, one that
can be put into immediate
effect. — (New York
I Times).
NO FRONTIERS
Raymond B. Fosdick,
President of the Rockefel
; ler Foundation made an un
answerable point against a
species of isolationism in
his address in New York
recently at the confrence
of the American Public
Health Association. Mr.
Fosdick said we could no
longer be indifferent to
health conditions in China,
where there is one hospital
for each 700,000 persons,
I whereas, in this country
we have a hospital for each |
22,500 persons, and a phy
sician for each 750. In
China and India, and in
several other regions, dis
1 ease can breed and kill as
it cannot here. Under mod
ern conditions, as Mr. Fos
dick said, there arises “the
problem of trying to main
i tain a healthy life for our
selves and our children side
by side with disease as
rampant as it is in China.”
’ i Despite every possible pre
; caution, our fighting forces
in the Orient cannot be
jkept free of oriental sick
, ness. With greatly increas
; | ed speed and volume of
; travel, the difficulty of
; keeping these sicknesses
i out of the occidental world
J or even keeping them
down, will increase A
world health organization
must inevitably be attach
ed to any world peace or
ganization.
War creates conditions
in which disease flourish
es. It impoverishes vast
populations, destroys sani
tary systems and controls,
degrades human life wher
ever it passes. In a sense,
war itself is a disease and
its effects resemble those
of a group of epidemics
turned loose in the world.
If cholera, plague, typhus
or malaria do not respect
political boundaries, nei
ther, in these days, does
war. To isolate disease we
must stop isolating the di
sease-fighting forces of the
world, We cannot do this
long or successfully if the
world continues to be
threatened by war. The
world-wide medical front
has bad to be part of a
a world-wide anti-war
, war front. Until this end is
achieved, China and other
countries will not get their
needed doctors and hospi
tals, or will we in this
country be safe.—(Juneau
Empire).
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