And then he goes on to defend the young of America, There is precious little wrong with the modern high school gid and boy—they are excited and nervous, coming into mature life mather precocioualy—and youth is discovering lot of things in its teens that its fat rud mothers learned in their twenty fes and thirties, revelations which, for the moment, are disconeortine and disastrous, "But the child, evea to-day's child, even the flaming youth? about which we are all worried, is merely a product of the modern home, a product of the en vironment which we of this genstation have created."
And he emphatically repeats:
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All the same, it cannot be expe ed that the school ina modern coun. try can possibly take the place of the home. Psycholozists tell us that the American father is a failure. He is the mechanism that works 1 create the wherewithal, and there stops—business and all the com plexities of economic life absorb his whole energy and interest, 'The 'American mother, they say, is not much better. She is constantly widening her interests outside the home, giving less time and cate to her children, the system of "par'. ments" moreover, depriving the children of the spirit of the rear Tu China the old-time school of the veneraion given to learning, wielded a greater influence than the father, and was held in veneration. But Where in America to-day do the students told their teachers veneration? No, the school in modern countries can never take ths place of the home, and if the yours: people coming: from the schools to: day do not measure up to the stand. fords desired by their parents, the latter must admit that as parents they have not done their part Tu these days of prohibition, no school boy or girl will consider party complete without the win" jor whisky flisk, it would appear that the youth' of Ame wrong. There is unmis respect for patents ad diers ever before. In the schools rineipals and superintendents can. Sider that the children should cly as much of the running of the schoo!
possible, and this system, inthe opinion off conservative older fi, while making for a sense of recponsibility often lessens respect for ders. T suppose, however. tha' really' boys and girls are thy wars today than they were a cou tis that they are I nad world, and their elders clined to recognize the rapidity with which the world is changing.
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