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Johnny dug from his pocket a shiny new dime, his weekly allowance. Now he stood before the candy counter trying to decide between 10 peppermints at one cent each and the chocolate bar for six cents. The chocolate bar won. After the clerk gave him four coins in change, Johnny scooped up coins and candy and ran on to school. As he hung up his jacket, he removed his precious change and counted it ‐‐ one penny, two pennies, three pennies, four ‐‐ no, that's not a penny! That's a dime ‐‐ not bright like the one he gave to the candy store clerk, but dull and worn, so that at first glance it looked like one of the wartime pennies. Overjoyed at his unexpected wealth, he ran to his teacher, who was correcting arithmetic papers before class. “Look,” he cried, “the man at the store gave me a dime instead of a penny. Now I can have two more candy bars and one peppermint this week! Isn't that wonderful?” 1 Moral and Spiritual Values in the Public Schools, published on February 19, 1951, is the latest statement of the Educational Policies Commission of the NEA and the AASA. The document was drafted by Commission Secretary William G. Carr to express the consensus of the 20 members of the commission, who, at the time of final adoption of the statement, were: John K. Norton, chairman, Ethel J. Alpenfels, Ruby Anderson, Sarah C. Caldwell, James B. Conant, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Willard E. Givens, Alon‐zo G. Grace, Eugene H. Herrington, Henry H. Hill, William Janesen, Galen Jones, Worth Mc‐Clure, N. D. McCombs, T. R. McConnell, Corma A. Mowrey, Mae Newman, George A. Selke, Lee M. Thurston, and Warren Travis White The commission made its study of moral and spiritual education in response to action of the NEA Representative Assembly in July 1948, when the Assembly adopted the recommendation of a study group which had discussed the problem at the 1948 summer meeting. The original suggestion for this discussion had been made by the Department of Classroom Teachers. This article is reprinted from NEA Journal, March, 1951. (Vol. 40, No. 3), by special permission [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
