The contribution of the philanthropists

none is more respected, more admired or more closely followed with affection by parents and public than is that of teacher. Today as one hundred years ago the teacher is the heart of the school. A second contribution on the part of parents has been the granting to education of freedom to build, to experiment and to develop the school systems of today. Both by developing of public opinion and by their vote, parents have supported the teaching profession in the educational organization of the schools. The traditional school of fifty years ago has gone through a series of changes which have resulted in an entirely new educational system. This would not have been possible without, the willingness of the parents to give opportunity for experimentation in terms of current educational advance. A third parental contribution is that of actual participation in the educational program of the school. The job of educating children is a joint task shared by home and school. The education of the whole child cannot be accomplished if either side of the equation is lacking. This participation has consisted through the years of supplementing in the home every teaching effort of the school. It has constituted the greatest contribution in terms of the development of the child himself. A fourth contribution has been the placing on the statute books of those laws and ordinances which give to the teacher the security and the compensation which belonged by right to those whose work is fundamental in the building of an American society. Though much remains to be done, the advances in the past one hundred years indicate that a Parent Public is aware that its children are only safe and well cared for and adequately prepared for life when they are in the hands of a profession whose members are likewise safe and well cared for and prepared to take their places in American society. The last contribution to be mentioned is indirect and yet most significant. To the teaching profession each year parents give their young people-gladly and hopefully. The sharing of family life with that of the teaching group is taking place in tens of thousands of homes where members of the family go out each day into the schoolroom and thereby set up that relationship which is America's strength as Parent and Teacher meet and join forces in their task of educating Young America

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