Agricultural and Industrial Education Division. Lewis A. Wilson. Attendance Division.. Educational Extension Division.. Examinations and Inspections Division.. School Buildings and Grounds Division.. James D. Sullivan. William R. Watson, B.S. James Sullivan, M.A., Ph.D. Frank K. Walter, M.A., M.L.S. Sherman Williams, Pd.D. Alfred W, Abrams, Ph.B. GOVERNOR'S MESSAGES MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNOR TRANSMITTING REPORT OF RECONSTRUCTION COMMISSION ON MILITARY TRAINING FOR Boys (Transmitted to the Legislature April 7, 1919) To the Legislature: Immediately after its appointment, I requested the Reconstruction Commission to make a study of the question of Military Training for boys under 18 years of age. The Commission went very thoroughly into the question, and the following is their report: INTRODUCTION The Committee on Education of the Reconstruction Commission has held nine hearings on the subject of military training for boys 16, 17 and 18 years of age. At these meetings opinions and suggestions from many organizations and individuals were received, and several representatives were sent from some of these organizations. The list of those heard includes the following: Military Training Commission, State Inspector of Physical Training for the Military Training Commission, Vocational Bureau of the Military Training Commission, War Department, General Staff Corps Committee on Education,. Adjutant-General of the State of New York, National Guard of the State of New York, Boy Scouts of America, State Department of Education, Board of Education, Assistant Director of Physical Training of New York Schools, Education Committee of the Y. M. C. A., College of the City of New York, STATE DEPT. REPT.- VOL. 19 1 [Vol. 19] Transmitted to the Legislature April 7, 1919 Bureau of Educational Proceedings, City Club Committee on Schools, Chamber of Commerce, Americanization Survey of the Carnegie Corporation of As a result of these hearings the Committee desires to present a statement and certain recommendations. EDUCATION TO-DAY There is nothing which has arisen out of the war so profound and likely to be so increasingly important to the public mind as the question of education and vocational guidance. We should, therefore, ask what is the purpose of education to-day, during the reconstruction period of our nation, and what has technical military training with its manual of arms and its drill to contribute to modern schools of the kind that are beginning to shape themselves in the United States. Strictly technical military training is defined in the report of the New Jersey Commission on Military Training as "instruction which includes exercises of a highly specialized character, and which aims at specific purposes. Military training must aim at military service.” We must inquire, therefore, what this has to give to the education of our youths. AIM OF EDUCATION Education, in the last analysis, may be said to have a twofold purpose: 1. The attainment of a perfect physical development in the man or woman who represents the finished product of our educational system. 2. The development of the highest type of citizenship in these men and women. WHAT IS CITIZENSHIP? The Committee presenting this report has been instructed to consider only the problem of boys under 19. namely all boys 16, |