crete, specific, administrative efficiency. The world is so full of a numbar of things, all good in their proper places and proportions, that the "elective system" must be adopted by parents from the very beginning of their babies' conscious life to this extent, at least, that some principles of choice must be . inculcated that will enable their children to grow up not only to choose the good from the bad, but also to choose from the many available good things the few that they can afford to indulge in at the various stages of their development. Seven Deadly Sins "One of the most fundamental works of reform," says the federal director of the rural organization service, "is the persuading of men to like the right things." The choice of the wrong things has not only been helping to depopulate rural districts, but has been complicating the town life of young people as never before. Consider the following "seven deadly sins," then, merely in relation to these, acknowledged educational essentials-the cultivation of individual initiative, concentration and imagination: "1. Cheap periodicals and magazines (written down to a taste that balks at the slightest mental exertion). 3. Cheap theatrical shows (adapted to the tired business man's standard-no mental effort). "3. Cheap (canned) music, which might be excellent and often is; but too often degenerates into the 'empty singer of an idle day'-mere amusement and accompaniment to dancing. "4. The apotheosis of amusement (the dancing craze, the exaggeration of athletics, the domination of play-Johnny must be out-of-doors all the afternoon, till he is too tired and sleepy to study in the evening). "5. Premature assumption of the manners of club life (dependence upon the comforts, convenience and luxuries of life-too many servants, no responsibilities; press the button, and somebody else does the rest). "6. The motor car (the devil's own as a seductive time consumer). "7. The moving picture show (and the better the picture the cheaper the show, and vice versa.)" The mere enumeration of these general distractions is sufficient to indicate that if the "modern school" is to cultivate the pupils' individual initiative in eliminating irrelevant interests the school must have assistance from outside. No school under the conditions here brought to mind is adequate to solve the educational problem single handed. A school's most natural ally in combating these general distractions and its own special distractions is obviously home co-operation. This may be secured in at least four ways: United prohibition; adjustment (particularly of such special distractions as dentists' appointments, parties, theatres, outside lessons in music, dancing, skating, riding, etc.); regulation and control, especially of collections (stamps, insects, birds, etc.); scientific enthusiasm (wireless, motor boats, motor cars, etc.); sports, games, movies, etc.; substitution (science trips, original public speaking, regular pupil morning talks to the whole school, debates, Chautauqua, summer work, companionship of parents, mind fertilization at home, etc.) The pupils of day schools, public and private, are under outside influences twice as many working hours as they are in school; and outside influences today require seven times the vigilance of any other period. The home co-operation I have in mind involves no interference by parents that need impair the control of the school by expert professionals. Special daily or weekly, and regular monthly, individual reports to parents invite frequent afternoon and evening interviews; and several joint parents' meetings a year, conducted sometimes by the parents, sometimes by the teachers, provide opportunities for frank general discussion and wholesome mutual understanding. "The matter" with secondary education today is less in the subjects taught in school than in the lack of home co-operation in meeting the multiplicity of distractions out of school.-(Geo. H. Brown in New York Independent.) Cost Resolve During this new school The Perry Pictures ONE CENT EACH FOR 25 OR MORE, size 5x8 postpaid Every pupil ought to know the world's greatest paintings. Smaller, half cent size, for compositions, essays, etc., 3 by 3%. Larger. seven cent size. 5 for 35 cents. Size 10 by 12. Decorate your schoolroom with a seven cent size. Bird pictures in natural colors, two cents each for 13 or more. 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The leading article in this number is an exhaustive presentation of this important subject; a complete bibliography of the Junior High School will follow in the October number. Education enters its thirty-seventh year with the September number. All articles are strictly original. It wastes no time on mere school news and gossip. It will keep you in touch with the great movements of the profession. Its Foreign Notes are more complete than any other educational journal's. Its circulation is national. Its is thoroughly "worth while." "As necessary to a teacher as a medical journal to a physician," Mr. M. T. Pritchard, Master of Everett School, Boston. Subscription price $3.00 a year. 35c per copy. THE PALMER COMPANY, Publishers 120 Boylston Street Boston, Mass. Central Normal College ...And Commercial Institute Danville, ESTABLISHED 1876 Indiana Accredited for Class A, Class B and Class C Made a Standard Normal School by the State Board of Education, July, 1913. 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