Consider the NEA
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Part of The Philippine Educator
- Title
- Consider the NEA
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1947
- Rights
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- Fulltext
- CONSIDER THE N. E. A. 11 night like fugitives from justice or runaway slaves. Unafraid and undaunted free men they should ever. be. To enable our people to understand and practic democracy and thereby to I. enjoy its blessings, we must help them to unshackle their minds and spirits from the subjection and bondage of the past. This is a task of utmost importance for Filipino teachers, and must be done right away! - o - CONSIDER THE N. E. A.FAUSTO P. CATOY Batangas _ High School it is worthy to note in passing that the educational builders of the United States of America have educational associations of one form or another which are found in nearly all the states of the Union, for they realize that it is only through them and by them can they hope to be heard by · those who are concerned with the educational set-up of the various educational processes and thereby effect better equity in terms of numerations and in terms of fair treatment. Throughout the Union, a keen and impartial obser\rer will s•nely find that practically in all the states arc associations composed of energetic educational workers who are efficient, well organized, professionally alert, and politically ~ffec tive in combating the many ill-timed legislations of the states' law-making bodies which if allowed to materialize would not only have had adverse effects upon the educational progress of the public school system in the United States but would also have set it back to where it had started twenty or thirty years before. The National Education Association, known as the N. E. A., and the teachers, principals, and superintendents' associations in many states have to be reckoned with whenever the various state legislatures have intentions to legislate laws which will adversely .~f fect the welfare of thousands and thousands of public school workers in the United States. These associations have shown time and again their aggressive and educational alertness in the furtherance of public education in the American union. It has been the untiring assertive efforts of these various associations that made it possible for the stabilization of teachers' salaries in many states of the Union, the materialization of the long-cherished retirement legislation and the increased financial support by the different states of the cause of public education. The Philippines, now aspiring to be a great leader, in the educational world · in the Orient, must profit from the example and the experience of others. The educational workers of the Philippine public schools regardless of their positions must lend their whole-heartPd and undivided support and enthusiastic cooperation in making the aims of the Philippine Public School Teachers' Association a reality. This can be made possible only through the conserted and undivided effort of all the teachers and workers of the public school system in the Philippines and by pulling together every iota of their latent strength in pushing forward a better day in the name of a progressive education in the uew Republic of the Philippines. FOR MODERN OPTICAL NEEDS-SEE KEEPSAKE OPTICAL-SO Escolta