MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 22. 1962
Modern Education
Developed During
Current Century
School bells will soon be I basis.
calling an estimated 50-mil
lion students back to school
Over a million youngsters
will be enrolling into classes
for the lirst time, and the
balance of this number will
go to primary, intermediate
and high school classes
around the nation.
Again school reopening
focuses attention on increased
enrollments, shortage of
properly trained faculty and
lack of proper school housing.
Although these problerns
have been rectified in many
communities, others are stiil
facing them.
Since our nation's begin
nings education has been an
important facet of the Ameri
can way of life. .
The foundations of the
modern American education
al systems were laid by the
Calvinist Puritans of New
England. In 1642 the legisla
ture of the Massachusetts Bay
colony, faithful to the Protes
tant principle, that everyone
should be able to read the
Bible passed a law requir
ing all parents, in towns with
in jurisdiction, to give their
children an elementary edu
cation. Law Declares Schools
And so throughout our
early history, more and more
schools were established by
local law. As the frontiers
moved westward, settlers
created their own schools for
their children.
Although . early schools
were set up by church
groups, which also controlled
them - by the end of the
American Revolution these
schools were made independ
ent of the churches. By the
nineteenth century, a system
of decentralized control,
compulsory, popular educa
tion was set up.
Several attempts to estab
lish a national system of edu
cation over the years were
unsuccessful since the decen
tralized control of schools
was well-established through
out the country
When the tenth amend
ment to the U. S. Constitu
tion was adopted giving the
Individual states all powers
not reserved by the federal
government, the foundation
was laid to establish stale
controlled school systems.
In turn, the state system;
evolved into units of state,
county and later, city school
systems.
Free System New
The free public school sys
tem as we know it now,
actually evolved in the twen
tieth century.
In most states up to the
Civil War and for several
decades thereafter: parents
paid for their children's
schooling. Children of pau
pers were given free educa
tion, but wholly on a charity
The concept too was
changed by the end of the
nineteenth century when
states required local admin
istrations to tax themselves
for the full support of public
schools and all children with
in the school area.
The system we know now
came into being in the twen
tieth century. A far cry from
its humble beginnings in the
early days of the colonies,
support for our free public
school systems come from
local property taxes (two
thirds) with the balance be
ing made up of monies con
tributed by the state (from
taxes) from permanent state
school funds and som.. feder
al aid.
Enrollments Grow
As enrollments continue to
grow in all types of schools
round the country, the prob
lem facing school systems is
not all economic.
Never in the history of the
nation has . there been so
much awareness of the im
portance of learning, not
only for the individual but
also with relation to the im
mediate future of our civilization.
Today the curriculum of
schools faces scrutiny and in
ventory as science education,
humanities, languages as
new frontiers opened up by
the space age are creating
far greater demands for
knowledge and skill than
ever before.
The average citizen has
found many channels open
for intelligent discussion and
activities concerning the bet
terment of the school systems
and their curricula.
Children as well as adults
are imbued with this revitali
zation of serious interest in
education. A growing pride in
scholastic standing appears to
be ' developing even among
the children in' elementary
schools.
JETLINER CRASHES - Spectators stand at the edge of Janeiro Tuesday. Thirteen of the 104 persons aboard the
Guanabara Bay behind a pair of wheels and part of the Europe-bound jetliner were killed and nine were listed
fuselage of the Panair do Brasil DC8 which crashed and as missing. (UPI)
burned after takeoff from International Airport at Rio de
Firm Executive For
Longer, Wider Beds
New York-UJPIl-"Eighty per
cent of today's married cou
ples sleep in cribs," accord
ing to John W. Hubbell, vice
president of a bedding manu
facturing firm.
Hubbell said four of every
five American couples sleep
on a standard size double bed
which is 54 inches wide, al
lowing each spouse 27 inches
of sleeping space, or the width
of a baby crib. He suggested
beds up to 21 inches wider
and five inches longer than
standard double beds.
About one - half the states
observe 10 or more legal holi
days each year.
Highway workers of many
states are under some form of
civil service.
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Stanford, Calif.-illPII-A tor
toise-shell wastebasket, given
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Ulysses H. Grant in 1887, has
been accepted by Mrs. John
F. Kennedy for her redecora
tion program at the White
House.
The wastebasket is made
from the complete shell and
is lined with red satin.
The Stanfords became good
friends of the Grants after
1885. Later, in Washington,
the President's widow was
helpful to Stanford, then a
new. senator from California.
A card pinned to the waste
basket - in Mrs. Stanford's
handwriting - describes the
curio as a "tortoise shell bag
which always hung in General
Grant's room at the White
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in New York, in which he
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Teachers in 35 of the states
participate in state controlled
pension plans.-
Human blood contains
about 11,000 white corpuscles
per cubic centimeter.
Traffic Violators
Have More Accidents
New York-fllPD-Drivers who
commit traffic violations are
particularly likely to have ac
cidents, according to the Met
ropolitan Life Insurance com
pany. A study of Iowa driv
ers, it said, showed the ratio
of actual accidents to the
number expected was 134 per
cent among drivers with two
or more violations.
Speeding, improper passing
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and failure to observe stop
signs were the most highly
associated with accidents, the
company said.
Each square foot of wing '
area on a modern airliner
must support a load of 75 to :
120 pounds in the air.
Nine in 10 American house
holds have television sets and
one in eight have two or-more.
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