Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-07-10
Ohio Teachers Association,
Cleveland. Ohio.

The thi-tieth annual meeting of the
"Ohio Teachers Association" was held
in Cleveland last week, and was largely
attended by teachers from all parts of
the State. Many prominent educators
were present and took part in the exer-
cises-noticeable among these was State
School Commissioner j. J. Burns, so
well known about st. Clairsville, and
other parts of Belmont county. On Ju-
ly 1St, meeting of the superintendent
Section was held in Board-Of-EducatiO
Rooms, Euclid Avenue. Prof. Richard
son, of Chillicothe, delivered the Inau-
raj Address, from which we will give a
few selections: "The educational field
remains about the same; teaching is no
nearer profession than it has been for
years.-The state of our public morals
is fearful-The teacher of to-day has a
work to do that, in Importance rises
above the usual routine of duties, that is
far above mathematics, the sciences, the
arts, the classics; it is to make of the
boys and girls entrusted to him men and
women of purity and integrity. A course
of instruction in all branches may be
mapped out and percentages demanded
in the accomplishment of the work, but
the silent moral influence of teachers,
the results demanded by the unwritten
schedule, can never be estimated by per-
centages.-The child should be taught
that simple honesty is the jewel of jew
els; that success in life depends upon
fair dealing in all the minor affairs of
life as well as in more weighty things !;
that aspiration to position in life, prac-.
oil chn hn
subordinatdd to integrity of purpose and
principle; that high political pre-
ferment without this is unsafe both
to the person elevated and to the party
that elevates him; that wealth without
character is an empty show, to last but
for season and then laugh at its would
be possessor--Our fathers might have
kept from free America the dark curse
of slavery and made the North and
South like loving sisters, as they should
be. They did not. They failed in that
hour when an incipient Nation was cry
ing out for highest manhood. And fol-
lowing their failure in duty came the
long train of evils which has dragged its |
slow length along through the history of |
our country, eliminating in civil wal"
world has never put a proper
on woman. Is it not mean in |
us OF to-day, in this enlightend age, to
keep up a custom that we know is
wrong2 We follow our fathers in un-
derrating woman; instead of weighing
brains we estimate by sex; and woman,
through our injustice, is honored less,
deprived of privileges which we call Sd-
cred, is held to be an inferior being, and
is given the second place, if any at ALL"
-"But the signs of the times are per-
haps propitious. Some of the inequali-
lies are being leveled, some wrongs be-
ing righted. The world looks to its ed
lcators to accomplish great things in
.he decade to come. 1t becomes us,
hen, to be men and women, as strong
iOr justice and equality as in science;
Is strong for honesty and integrity as in
literature and art; bright and shining
lights to help others on in the pathway
If highest excellence"
We have quoted more largely than we
Intended from this address. The next
n order was Science in the Public
by Prof. Tuttle, of the Ohio
state University at Columbus. He said
lis object was to open the discussion on
he questions as to what branches of