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A high school instructor in Boston, changing places for a year with a teacher of the same subject in San Francisco, a primary teacher in New Orleans interchanging with another in Chicago, are adjustments that would work for good to all concerned. There would be necessarily, in the case of the public schools, certain legal adaptations which do not hamper the universities, but the benefits that come to the latter would certainly accrue to the former, and such matters as licenses could be easily arranged. An agitation for such a system of exchanges has its rise in Denver, where Superintendent Smiley is led to remark: I can see great good that might come from such an arrangement. Of course, each city would have to pay the teacher it elected to exchange her regular salary, wherever she might go. A year's experience in another environment and in a different system of schools would be of great educational value to her. The board of education of Waukegan, Illinois, has been passing through troublous times. A report of its proceedings at a recent meeting notes that certain action was taken on the ground "that a large percentage, if not a majority, of the teachers employed in this city are incompetent." This is a startling statement for the educational legislators to make concerning their employees. Down at the end of the report of the same meeting is a small item that may contain both confirmation and explanation. It is this: Miss Lillian Lain, who is assisting in the primary work at the Washington School, was given an increase in salary from $25.00 a month to $30.00 a month. No. 6 the dedicatory exercises of the new educational building of the state of New York, for the reason that academic costume was prescribed for one function. Another professor in the same institution, Doctor Wilder, has this to say publicly of this fast increasing furor for educational insignia: Candid and careful consideration confirms the opinion that, excepting perhaps the plain gown for the first degree, obviating social distinctions, the so-called academic costume is ostentatious, needless, childish or barbaric, and inappropriately expensive; its rapid and general adoption, so far from evidencing its intrinsic value and probable permanence, exemplifies the survival of simian proclivities in the human race. But why except the gown of the first degree? Speaking of democracy, the one excellent feature of the legislative attempt to transfer authority from the board of superintendents of the city of New York to the board of education is the democratic tendency of the proposed legislation. Without that view of the case the movement has no justification. A body of professional educators certainly should know more about the conduct of a system of schools than does a body of laymen. But finally the matter comes to a question of doing rather than of knowing, to a question of keeping in touch with the people rather than with the doctrines of Pestalozzi and the latest batch of statistics. A writer in a New York paper charges, The board of superintendents, with Dr. Maxwell at its head, has not been sensitive to the will of the people. The distrust of politics, the fear of bringing politics into the schools, has been used as a scarecrow to keep the board of superintendents independent of the public to such a degree that it has become a bureaucracy, lifeless, isolated, despotic, caught in gray routine, and difficult of access. If these charges be true, and we doubt it very much, then some remedy should be promptly applied, and that remedy should not be the shifting of courses-of-study-making to the board of education, but the remodeling of the board of superintendents to the effect that they can no longer be charged with being "independent of the public, lifeless, isolated, despotic and difficult of access." |