Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1907 — GETTING AWAY FROM THE ESSENTIALS. [ARTICLE]

GETTING AWAY FROM THE ESSENTIALS.

That the Indiana sohool system is being made top-heavy with fads all must admit who have given the subject much thought. The common schools of the state are for the purpose of making boys fit to be men and girls fit to be women. The colleges and universities, so plentiful over the state, are for the purpose of adding accomplishments that parents might wish their children to acquire. The common sohools are for the purpose of making practical men and practical women. With all the isms advocated by the learned men the practical is getting farther and farther afray. Fads run their course and eventually we will be back to the point where we left the right path to follow after strange ideals.— Oxford Tribune. ;