The Oriole, November 1925

'( LIBRARY .vIGE AT TOWSON MARYLAND ITaisc youth and it To be iond of learn- will mlvauco to suc¬ cess. 1 ГНЕ ORIOLE ing is to bo at the gate of knowledge. Vol. 5-No. 2 NOVEMBER, 1925 Published Monthly by Students of Maryland State Normal school, Towson, Md. LEARNING FROM OTHERS Exchange is the life of trade. Ex¬ change of ideas is the medium of trade iti education. Upon invitation of the Southwest Missouri State Teachers' Association, meeting at Springfield, Missouri, Miss Tall spoke before the General Session on Saturday, October 31, and the Senior High School Section on Friday. Her topics were: "Edu¬ cation, a Big Business in this Age of Big Business," and "The Contri¬ bution of the High Schools to Teacher Training.” She also spoke before the Art Section, which was in charge of Miss Deborah Weisel who for six months, in 1921, was instruc¬ tor here at Norma!. Miss Weisel organized the work in Industrial Arts, and left us, having been pledged to go to Springfield before she came here. She has made pro¬ gressive art ideals felt in Missouri, especially in Southwest Missouri, which is keenly alive now to the value of art in the public schools. .Miss Tall also spoke before the Sat¬ urday Club, the leading social wo¬ men's club in Springfield. Garnered by the. way, Miss Tall brought back ideas from visits to five teacher- training institutions: The Harris Teachers’ College of St. Louis; The Southwest Missouri State Teachers' College at Springfield, where the meetings were held; Peabody College tor Teachers at Nashville, Tennessee, which is the Teachers' College of Vanderbilt University; The Bowling Green. Kentucky, Normal College, and the School of Education of Cin¬ cinnati University. Our entire faculty at Normal this year is on tip-toe to develop (he school laboratory. Now, the labora¬ tory for a school like ours is made, up of children who are being edu¬ cated through the medium of the elementary school; so, every student at Normal knows that theory and practice must clasp hands and work together. Therefore. we'd feel strange it we did not see principles tried out in class. So Miss Tall was keen to find out what was being done in the practice schools of the live in¬ stitutions she visited. Everybody, even in education, keeps saying that "practice lags ten years behind theory.” Miss Tall wants us to help in changing this,( so she looked especially for use of demonstration and praclice centers, The Harris Teachers’ College has a campus de¬ monstration school. Its student Continued on Page 2 THE INTERNATIONAL INSTI¬ TUTE OF TEACHERS’ COLLEGE Teachers' College has been the pioneer and leader in the movement for the intensive study by foreign students of how the United States "does” things. The establishment of new republics and the wider ex¬ tension of the spirit of democracy which followed the war have served (o intensify this interest in American education so that now the student body of Teachers' College has be¬ tween two and three hundred stu¬ dents representing over forty differ¬ ent countries of the world. These foreign students realize that a nat¬ ional democracy can only be attained through education, and that the United States, though with many im¬ perfections. has achieved much in democratic education. Two thou¬ sand foreign students have been graduated from this college and have returned to their native lands and are doing wonders as adminis¬ trators and teachers for the promo¬ tion of modern education. They are dedicating their lives to the service of internationalism and to a better understanding between their own country and the United Stales. Education such as this furnishes a concrete means for advancing human welfare. To meet this need there has been established and has been in operation since February, 1923, the International Institute of Teachers' College, the foundation of which was made possible by the grant of $1,000,000 in ten install¬ ments from the International Board founded by John D. Rockefeller. Jr. The creation of this institute will permit пот, only the giving of special attention to foreign students but also will make it possible for us to con¬ duct investigations in connection with foreign countries. The funds of tlie International Institute will be used to fur¬ nish scholarship aid to foreign students of ability and promise. The institute will also be in a position to assist these students in visiting educational and social institutions outside of New York City and thus correct the ideas of America formed in the metropolis alone. We are very proud of the fact that this group of students visited the M. S. N. S. last Friday How much did you help in giving a background of American ideas and ideals to these people of other countries who were here? How much did you advance internationalism? Did you know just who these strange people were and just what they were trying to do? DR. 1. L. KANDEL, Prof, of Teachers’ College. Data for report taken from article in Teachers’ College Record, Sept.. 1923. AMERICAN’ EDUCATION WEEK NOV. 10 TO 23, CAN BE MADE TO MEAN — 1. For every child — Appreciation of his obligation to match the privilege of free schooling with good spirit and hearty endeavor. 2. For every teacher — A new and challenging call to serve the children of this gen¬ eration. 3. For every parent — A fuller understanding of the great adventure of parenthood; its duties, privileges, and oppor¬ tunities, more especially its part in the education of children. 4. For every citizen — Pride in the public school as the foundation of our liberties, the protector of the achievements of oar glorious past, and the promise of fuller life for to¬ morrow. NORMAL SCHOOL TO OB¬ SERVE EDUCATIONAL WEEK. The opening of National Education Week will be observed today at the Maryland Stale Normal School, Tow- son, by a book exhibit and a musical and dramatic entertainment in the administration building. The ob¬ servance will be held from 3 to 5 P. M. every afternoon this week. The book exhibit will include literature for children and adults. The dramatic entertainment, will be marked by a series of dramatic sketches showing the evolution of books and by several short addresses. Tea will be served in the after¬ noon. — From Morning Sun. ARE YOU EDUCATED? A man is not educated in any sense, whatsoever, because he can read Latin, write English or appear well in a drawing room. He, only, is educated who is busy, beueficient, and effective in a com¬ munity. — Ruskin.