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January 10, 1930 WILMETTE LIFE 29 false . doctrine shall not prevail ESTON V. TUBBS WRITES and against it. "The curriculum maker must have a ON "WHY IS EDUCATION" clear understanding of the purpose and Article by Wilmette Educatcw Featured by Journal of Education Eston V. Tubbs of Wilmette, director of curriculum for the Chicago Public schools, is the author of an article entitled "Why Is Education," which appeared in the December 30, 1929, issue of the Journal of Education. This school journal is one of the most widely read educational periodicals in the United States. The title of Mr. Tubbs' article was featured ' on the cover of the Journal of Education in which it appeared. It is an interesting and instructive article worthy of the attention of readers who are looking for the constructive type of reading matter. America of Today a chance to every boy and girl to CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICE achieve success commensurate with his · "Sacrament" will be the subject :.at native ability. All this is done in order the services in the First Church of. that human life may be the more en- Christ, Scientist, in Wilmette, Sunriched." day morning, January 12, at the 11 meaning of education. There is much o'clock services. Sunday school conto be learned from the experiences of the past. The best thought of our Alexander Newton Awarded venes at 9 :45 o'clock. leaders in the fields of politics and inAmateur Operator Licena~ dustry is being directed toward imAlexander Newton, a member of the Adolp. Bolm Sc.ool of tlae Da.ce provement in the standards of living Radio club· at New Trier High school, ttf SoatJl lllellJpD BIT4., CllJe. .o of the people of the United States. has been awarded an amateur operaWimaetb Community Houe One of the ways of bringing about this tor's license by the government, accordBallet, Charader Da·elar desired result is through universal edu- ing to an announcement in the school Cla11e1 Th·n4aJ' fro· f to I cation. Our country is thoroughly bulletin this week. Mr. Newton was Advanced Class 6-'l committed to the policy of affording to speak at a meeting of the Radio Chleago Sellooi-BarriiO· · · equal educational opportunities to all; club Tuesday afternoon. ,, Semi· Annual · In one of the opening paragraphs Mr. Tubbs discusses the America of today as follows: "America today is young and prosperous. A vast stretch of territory has been converted from a wilderness into the home s of a hundred seventeen million people. Our raw materials, energy, and resourcefulness in invention have enabled us to develop into a great manufacturing nation whose products are seeking markets in every port. Great cities have sprung up as if by magic. \Ve are fast changing from a rural to an urban population. So.::iai relationships are becoming increasingly more complex. We glorify men of action and boast of our material accomplishments. \Ve take a great deal of pride in our skyscrapers, our great railroad systems, steel mills, automobile plants, and paved highways. "Our material progress constitutes a notable achievement. Inventions have revolutionized our economic and social life. These things are splendid in themselves, but national greatness must be built upon a more abiding foundation. H. G. Wells declares that present-dav civilization is a race between education and catastrophe. There is great danger that we have already set in motion forces that may be a curse rather than a blessing unless we bring to bear all of the intelligence of mind, heart, and soul we possess in devising courses of study in our schools and techniques of instruction that will result in making mechanical devices our slaves and not our masters." Clearanee ol Oriental Rugs · now ·n progress · · reductions as mueh as ······ Our Evanston and North Shore patrons know what it means when we hold this semi-annual event! Every rug that has been in stock six months or longer MUST GOIn order to uphold our far-flung fame for clean and always-fre~h stocks of Oriental Rugs. That is why we have reduced every rug10%-25%-33%-and as much as 50%! · Oriental Rugs-First Floor, East Room "Why" of Education Mr. Tubbs explains the "why" of our educational system in the concluding paragraphs of the article : "A cardinal feature of our· great program of social betterment is the emphasis which we are putting upon health education. During the last twenty years the expectancy .o f life has been increased twelve years as a result of scientific research. Typhoid fever has very largely disappeared, and through the administration of toxinantitoxin and serum treatment, diphtheria and scarlet fever have been greatly reduced. The death rate frol!l tuberculosis is gradually falling. Medtcal inspection in our schools is all but universal, and the beneficent results of this policy are transforming the lives of thousands of school children who otherwise would be seriously handicapped in the race of life. We are constantly discovering and re-discovering the cardinal principles which have meant so much in the educational philosophy of other peoples. As ?id the Greeks · we are coming to recogmze the wisdom of a plan of education that includes the whole man-physical as well as mental. . "Perhaps in no other nation in the world has childhood come so fully in to its own as it has in the United States. Upon this rock we are building our civilization, and the storms of bigotry fOVNIAJN ~QVARL · [VAN5TON