Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1917 — Active Cooperation Between the Home and School Greatest Educational Need [ARTICLE]

Active Cooperation Between the Home and School Greatest Educational Need

By FRANKLIN B. DYER

Superintendent of Public School* of Boston, Masa.

There is no other co-operative agency so much needed by the school -as the home. There never was a time when the need was so great for intimate connection between .the home and school as at present. The conditions of modern life are so complex, opportunities for good and evil are so numefous, the occupations of the home are so meager unless they are related to the school, and the work of the schodl is so abstract unless it has a practical outcome in the home, that it is imperative for parents and teachers to get together. The co-operation should not be confined to a sentimental regard and respect of each for the other. The training of_each must supplement the other. Such co-operation can come in no other way so well as through -organizations that bring parents and teachers mtn friendly and frequent nssoeiafion. The problems of character buiMing, of habit formation, of training, of vocational counsel, ’ in fact, all the questions that pertain to the early period of child life, are of equal importance to parents and teachers, • . ~ \ 1 <- -•