CONTENTS. Letter of the Commissioner of Education to the Secretary of the Interior The programme Memorial of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections Extract from the last annual message of President Arthur.. Page. 5 7 9 10 11 11 3-4 LETTER. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, March 5, 1884. SIR: Thoughtful educators are accustomed to consider education in its wide sense, and to treat it as including all the influences and processes by which the human being is best shaped and adapted for the duties of life; as comprehending not only the normal, healthy, well disposed, favorably surrounded human being, but also the abnormal, unhealthy, vicious, and unfortunate. In the science and art of education, as in the science and art of health, we should study the pathology as well as the physiology of our theme. Therefore, the mission, methods, and results of punishment by the state for moral disorder when manifested in open wrong-doing are proper subjects for the consideration of all educators who would understand more than the mere routine of school work. The requests received by this Office for information on various bearings of the subject are numerous. A considerable number of its correspondents are teachers in reformatory and prison schools. The approaching International Prison Congress at Rome, in October of the present year, will afford a rare and to many a unique opportunity for the thorough discussion and revision of these topics, and information respecting its character, purposes, and programme doubtless will be found useful by the correspondents of the office. For their use, and with the desire of calling the general attention of the teaching profession in this country to this important congress and its work, the following papers are presented for publication as a circular of informa tion. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, JOHN EATON, Commissioner. The Hon. SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. Publication approved. H. M. TELLER, Secretary of the Interior. 5-6 |