20 WILMETTE LIFE March 18, 1927 Welfare Society Sponsors Lectures by Noted Viennese The Infant Welfa.re Society of Chicago, through its Woman's auxiliary, is sponsoring a series of lectures by Dr. Alfred Adler of Vienna, noted psychiatrist and psychologist. The talks \\ill be given at 4 o'clock, in the James Simpson theater in the Field museum (west ·entrance) on the following days, and upon the following subjects: Friday, March 18, "Dangerous Corne.rs in Childhood"; Wednesday, March 23, "Fighting Children"; Friday, March ----------------------------------- The Treasures of the Caravans Are Here NOTE THESE RARE RUG VALUES 25, "The Function of the Mother"; DEFENDS MODERN WAY ited amount of time, and most people have entirely too few facts on which to Monday, March 28, "The Importance pass sound judgment in the · field of and Significance of Social Feeling." State University Educator Advises modern education. Those intere sted in Reservations may be made through Kindergarten College Students to experimentation and re search will add the Infant Welfare Society office, 308 Find Happy Medium to the store of dependable and deNorth Michigan avenue, Chicago, and fencible facts in this field." the tickets secured at the time of the To the average person, the wrongs Dr. Clement also spoke of the fact meeting. of modern education are far more ap- that the critics who have emphasized parent than the rights, according to so strongly the apparent conflicts beDr. John A. Clement of the School of tween educators, do not take into con HEAR SCOUT EXECUTIVE Scout Executive Walter McPeek of Education, University of Illinois, who sideration that in education a · in bu sthe North Shore Area Council of the spoke before the students of the Na- iness, politics, science or rcligi.on we Boy Scouts of America will be the tiot1al Kindergarten and Elementary must deal, on the one hand w1th the speaker at the Church Family dinner college last Thursday on the subject, conservative element, which declares at the First Congregational church "Rights and Wrongs in Education." that whatever has been is right, and M.uch of this belief in the wrongs on the other hand with the radicals, Wednesday evening, March 23. of modern education is the outcome of who for no very clear reason, \\'ant to an epidemic of criticism which has discard everything that ha s come from come down on the schools-"exagger- the past. ated statements written in a querilous, Suggests Middle Ground sarcastic tone, which have been very "Teachers from a training school easy for the public to accept, and have such as the rnllegc ought to be able to made it extremely difficult for them to find a reasonable middle ground," said sec the good points." Dr. Clement. "It is true that some oi "These articles ought not to be taken the conservatiycs built better than they too seriously," said Dr. Clement. "In knew. It is also true that modern attempting to evaluate education most methods have proven some of the critics base their observation on too ancient ways unsound. The radical short spaces of time, and their judg- and conservative points of view are ments and conclusions are a mere sum- extreme, and in the middle ground bemary of bias and prejudice. :M odern tween the two lies the field ior cun tendencies in education are so young s'tructivc action." that it is eli fficult to tell what is permanently good and what is poor. The Rebekah Lodge to Initiate; difficulty lies partly in the lack of hisConduct Membership Drive toric perspective possessed by many who profess to pass judgment on these The \Vilmette Rebekah lodge, numproblems. If 'Safety' is to be our phy- ber 610, is holding initiation next \Vedsical motto, 'Sanity' should be our ncsday for six member s. The nH. :mbcr-> mental motto, with the judgment of of the lodge arc busy with a member education b~sed upon scientific and ship campaign, \\'hich was inaugurated philosophical it1sight." the first of March, and \\·ill continu~.: Insufficient Data until next fall. The members have been divided in t() In addition to the lack of perspective, Dr. Clement pointed out a second two groups, the north end and tllv handicap of the critic in this field, south end, to carry on the campai~n which is the fact that sufficient data work. The group \\·hich has secured for reliable judgment is seldom avail- the least number of members by the able. "Even in the field of science end of the campaign will ent crta!;l ! he the available data covers only a lim- winning group at a banquet. - ............. ........ ..... . · - Sparta 8-7x 1 o-8. $2.55 value ............ . 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