Family living and our schools, suggestions for instructional programs

One of the major responsibilities of education is that of helping individuals of all ages to be more effective members of homes and of families. Whatever the goals of a society, the family can be and usually is the most effective agency for inculcating those goals and for transmitting them from one generation to the next. The school should supplement and complement the home in its guidance of the child. This means joint parent-teacher responsibility, the teacher understanding the influences playing upon the child in the home, and the parents understanding the school's efforts to help the child realize his greatest potentialities. - Foreword.