Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-08-21
Stalo Educational Conventions,

State Educational Conventions.
We reprint, with this number Of the
TEACHER, the programmes Of, aud 9th
or announcements respecting, tho An
nuai State Educational Conventions, to
be held this year at Saltwater. The
people Of that city have wide and en-
viable reputation in respect to hospi-
tality. and the generosity with which
they promise to receive all the attend
ants upon tho Convention is unpural-
lelcd, we are informed, in the past rec
ords Of our associations. This, in i'd
vance, we chronicle, and wo t.ust up
prcciatc.
And, VIC again call attention to the
excellent spirit in which our requests
for special rates over tn c several routes,
cohverging in St. Paul, and thus lead
ing to the place where the conventions
are to be held, have been met this year
1t cannot be denied that tho want Of
these special rates last year, cast q
gloom over the prospects of our Con.
vcntions. Teachers purses are not pie
thoric Of grcenbacks, and our State is
large. so that 20 had good reason to
doubt whether our organizations would
not wane, out Of sheer inability on the
part OF teachers and school officers to
meet the necessary expenses Of travel ,
etc. Very happily, however, this year
brings 10 US, in nearly every dire< ton,
I'LL the aid Of which We could reasona-
lily desire or expect. The particulars
us to these facilities afforded by the
railroads will be found elsewhere, and
they should be carefully studied in or.
der that no mistakes be made whereby
individual carelessness comes to ask for
special accommodations, which it il
impossible for corporations to grant.
We suppose, that the more fully at.
tended, and the more thoroughly prac.
teal tho Conventions of our State Cd
ucators become, the more all who arc
engaged in school work will feel then,
to be necessity. If into these meet.
ings there is suffered to come a spirit
OF jealousy, distrust and discomfort :
If selishness and selt-or;nionativcness
is asserted to such an extent a. to
breed disgust, then the meetings lam
guish and become untruittul, and the
wages Of these sins is death to educa-
tional conventions, and to all that is
best in respect to education.
We hope for better things than these,
from tho educators Of Minnesota. W.
hope for a generous rivalry among
those engaged in labor for our public
schools, rival eff"rt on the part Of
all, to sec who, 10 his sphere, will b.
most loyal to the general welfare, and
least tenacious of individual vested
rights.
The band Of teachers and school Of
ficers in this State should be united ant
in earnest The spirit to Cooperate !,
every good work should &c cultivated
There should be no chickering's, no un
generous rivalries, no unkind express
sions, no efforts to array ono interest O.
the people Of one locality against th,
interest or the people Of another. Their
should be disposition to truthfulness
and to labor together in love, and will
q tcachable carnestness.
How many interesting topics will b.
brought before the Conventions a
Saltwater, How many Of those vel
qualified to do so, will be engaged i,
thought and study upon the questions
there to be discussed How practica
ought to be tho results of the delibera
tons of those days! Not to any vaca
ton pleasure trip, not to ~ opportuhi
~ for self display, not to q place wher'
the interests of locality or an institu
sion are to be brought into prominent
notice and to be promoted, are We, I'll
low educators, invited. We arc invi
ted to inaugurate the work Of new
school year, by earnest efforts after tn,
attainment Of higher and broader
conception Of what We have to do, ant
how we are to do it; to the considera
ton Of what will promote the hiehcs
interests Of education in its true sense
over our whole State. With this spiri
for these purposes, and with the thor
ough preparation which the occasion de
mands, may many educators, from al
parts OF Minnesota, present thcmselve
ut the Saltwater conventions tho cur
rent month.-Minncsota Teacher fol
August.