Goshen High School - Crimson Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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E.H.S.'4:' X EDN:-4522 , 5 2 Ten J. W. FOREMAN Supfrintrndfnt of Srlzools MILTON WYSONG Trrasuror of the Board of Education GEO. W. RICHARDSON Secretary of the Board of Education C. E. CORNELL Prvsidrnf of Ihr Board of Education ETHEL STRINE KASTIIOLM Clark

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B.H.5. : 'X lan Jlre the Public Schools Fulfilling Their Mission? This question is being asked every day and answers are forthcoming from many sources. Some prominent people say that the schools are a failure and falling far short of their real mission, that their successes are few and their failures are legion. Others are more optimistic and are loud in their praises of the great achievements of modern education. A very prominent business man of one of our neighboring states was recently asked the question, How and why is the public school failing to measure up to your ideas of standards that should be maintained? His reply was that before this ques- tion could be answered we should first determine what the proper function of the school is, that if we could agree upon what the proper functions of the schools are then it would be easy to tell Whether or not they are succeeding. It is very certain that much of the divergence of opinion comes from the great variance in the ideals and purposes sought by those seeking an answer to the question. A very successful engineer says the school of today is not fulfilling its proper function in that it is not giving the students a method of attack upon the problems that they meet in school which may be later transferred to problems in life. But this philosopher fails to tell us what that method of attack is which would carry over into the problems of life. lf we could find this function certainly every true teacher would see that this wonderful lesson was so instilled into every fertile young brain that it would be learned by every child as soon as he reached the age to comprehend this great lesson. Hut while people differ greatly in their opinions as to the success or failure of modern school systems generally there would be little discussion on the proposition that one of the necessities to bring about a more complete fulfilling of the mission of the public schools is greater interest taken by parents and the public generally. It is an old saying that the schools belong to the public. But the public can not expect to reap where it has not sown, neither can it reap what is has not sown. We are spending in the United States forty-two dollars per year per child in buildings, equipment and instruction. This is a small investment, especially when we compare it with the much larger investment made every year in any one of many other items of infinitely less value, such as chewing gum, tobacco, war ships and several others. But with this amount the schools are accomplishing some things. Children f' larger numbers and a larger percentage of the children of all the people every year are learning to read, write and spell. Illiteracy in the United States was lowered in the last ten years from 7.4'k to 6.3W. l'Ileven