Beautifying our schools . r progress. Preventable ugliness is a sin, and most of it, like most ill-health, is preventable. The schoolhouse and schoolyard make adecided impression on children who are very impressionable. If the school and schoolyard be ugly, the impression is nota good one. If beautiful, the impression is pleasing and ele-vating. One of the main lines of the Co-operative Education Asso-ciation is the beautifying of schools and school grounds. TheExecutive Secretary of this Association, Mr. J. H. Binford, ismaking a specialty of this work, and he is meeting with greatsuccess, no
Beautifying our schools . r progress. Preventable ugliness is a sin, and most of it, like most ill-health, is preventable. The schoolhouse and schoolyard make adecided impression on children who are very impressionable. If the school and schoolyard be ugly, the impression is nota good one. If beautiful, the impression is pleasing and ele-vating. One of the main lines of the Co-operative Education Asso-ciation is the beautifying of schools and school grounds. TheExecutive Secretary of this Association, Mr. J. H. Binford, ismaking a specialty of this work, and he is meeting with greatsuccess, not only because he can give excellent advice in suchmatter, but because the friends of education are responding to hisefforts. This essential feature of educational progress has my unre-served approval, and I trust that pupils, teachers, superin-tendents, trustees, and people will keep Mr. Binford busyanswering questions, giving advice, and visiting communitiesthat like wholesome and pleasing schools rather than ugly Supt Public Inst. The school, adjusted to neighborhood needs, is the seedcorn from which shall spring first the blade, then the ear, andfinally the full corn in the ear of the new conception of countrylife. /*U-y. C lirf& Prest Co-operative Education Assn. Page five The great majority of our grown people never enter theschool of to-day. Their estimate of it is obtained from the un-painted building and neglected yard. Is it strange that so manyparents send their children irregularly to such schools, and place alow estimate upon education? In a State wonderful in naturalbeauty, and dotted here and there with attractive homes, youfind everywhere the same type of school grounds—bare, unkept—without a single element of beauty or attractiveness. Is this tocontinue forever? What about the children who attend theseschools? Does it mean nothing that they spend all their schooldays amidst surroundings .so unlovely? We must be the leaders in this work of school impr
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