The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-27
OUR EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS.

1t has been the annual custom of the Jour
nal to welcome editorially the State Teachers
Association at their yearly meeting, and to
say such words Of cheer and encouragement as
in clear conscience it could. The Journal
has ever kept a watchful eye over the progress
Of public education in Indiana, for it looks
upon the school, and the church, and the press
as the three powerful allies which are to work
out the great moral and social reforms for
which the world is waiting To this end it
has given great attention to the matter of
education, not only in the public schools, but
also in the private schools and colleges. 1t
has written some sharp criticisms upon wha5
it candidly believed to be errors in school
management, but never carpingly, and only to
keep the schools out of rats and machine
methods.
The teachers Of Indiana number over 49,
900. They instruct daily nearly half mill
ion of infants, children and Y outh, assembled
in over 10, 900 publc-school buildings. The
school properties are worth over twelve mill
ions of dollars. The payroll amounts
to nearly half million month.
We have here an immense CAPT
tai and wage fund The public
school interest is the only public concern that
comes home daily to the parent, and what
ever may be going on in courts and county
seats that the home people know or care little
OF, there is one public officer who is closely
watched, and whose doings are reported daily
in almost every home in the land.
Of the "a, 900 teachers of the State, proba-
bly, not over 500 will assemble in the thirty
first annual meeting of the association, but
these will represent the leaders in public edu-
cation. The one hundred county school SUI
perintendents will be most of them present.
They have one of the most effective working
organizations in the State, and by their three
days annual meetings have done much to
harmonic and unity the common schools as
to course of study, programme and uniformity
of methods and textbooks. The high school
men will be present, and meet in special ses-
sion on Monday afternoon and Tuesday morn
ing. The kindergarten will be discussed on
Tuesday morning by Mrs. Baker of this city,
and be followed by an address on the 'tMoral
Education of the Young" by Oscar c. McCul-
loch. The principal of the State Normal
School has place on the programme. while
DR.. Z. Z. White, so long connected with Pur-
due will give an address on ''The Philosophy
of Teaching" on Wednesday morning.
The Indiana College Association will be in
session on the afternoon of Monday, Dec. 30,
and all of the following day. The most i'm
portant subjects before this body are "Educa-
ton and Politics." presented by President
Kiracofe and Professor A II. Benton, and the
'ITrue Place of Industrial Education" by
Professor Warder of Purdue, and President
Thompson of Rose Polytechnic, while
CHARLES Darwin" falls to the lot Of DIR.
Jordan, of the State University, and Professor
Baker, of DePauw.
There is popular lecture before the State
teachers on Tuesday evening, "Womanhood
in Shakespeare" by Wallace Bruce, of New
York, while on the afternoon of Tuesday Col
f. w. Parker, the principal of the Cook
County Normal School, of Chicago, will de-
liver the annual address, on Coming to Do by