St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-10
EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION.
Important National Gathering of Emf
nent Educators.
A Comprehensive Programme Minnesota
Well Represented.
Especial correspondence of the Globe. !

fourth annual meeting of the national asso-
citation of teachers which is to be held in this
city from July 10th to the 18th, promises to
be the largest and most enthusiastic gather
ing of educators ever held in this country.
Great preparations are being made for the
entertainment of the grand army Of edu-
Gators who are expected to be in attendance
from all parts of the United States, and the
hospitality of the city will doubtless be taxed
to the utmost.
The New England states will send 400,
New York and Pennsylvania together will
have a representation of 500. Fifteen hun
dred from the state of Wisconsin have have
already been registered for quarters, and
Minnesota delegation will not fall short of
500, among whom will be Hon. D. L..
Keihle, state superintendent of public in
Paul, Tousley of Minneapolis. Curtis of
Saltwater Phelps of Winona, Gorrie of
Mankato, Reynolds of Farlbault; Professors
Allen, Shepard and Soaring, of the state
normal schools, and many other prominent
educators of the state.
The programme of the meeting represents
some of the most important topics ever
brought before an educational body, and both
asst to subjects and speakers, is the result of
consultation with the largest possible number
of the best thinkers and workers in all parts
of the country. A brief synopsis will show
how comprehensive it is and will give your
readers a faint idea of the rich treat in store
for ba faocharS who N, ottapd
The association includes several different
departments which meet and carry out their
separate and distinct programmes, viz: Ma
tional Council of Education, National Edu-
cational Exposition, Froebal Instituted also
the departments known as the Department OF
Elementary instruction, the Department OF
Higher instruction, the Department of Nor
NAL Instruction, the Department of Superin-
tendence, etc.
The National Council of Education, which
consists of fiftv-one members selected by the
National Education association out OF its
general mem bership, will hold its evening
session on Thursday evening, July 10. Hon.
E. E. White, of Indiana, is president, and
Albert g. Boyden, of Massachusetts,, is the
secretary. The topics which committees of
the council will consider and report upon to
the association include such important ques-
tons as the following: Reorganization of
State School Systems,'' "School Supervision
in Cities, ''Manual Training in General
Education HPreparatory Schools" coral
Instruction, - ''The Limits of Education, u
Practice Departments in Normal Schools, :"
''Pedagogics as Science" Sanitary APP
planes of Public Schools" Educational
Statistics 'Moral Education"
ELEMENTARY EDUCATION.
Under this general head Hon. G.. Stanley
Hall, of Maryland, will discuss the princi-
pies underlying true system, and DR.. Dick
inson, of Massachusetts, will give a paper
on the methods of instruction flowing from
correct principles. Superintendent Tousley,
of Minnesota, Rowland, of Illinois, and
Greenwood, of Kansas, will present the prac-
teal working of the best schools on the
methods growing out of the principles in
diligently understood and applied. ''Needs
in American Dducation' will be discussed
by Miss Eva D. Kellogg, of Boston; clan
guage Lessons by Principal Bright of Chi
cago; Form, Color and Design by Miss
Morris, of Brooklyn; ''Methods in Music''
by Prof. Holt, of Boston, and ''The Constant
in Education," by Supt. Hinsdale, of Cleve-
land
KINDERGARTEN DEPARTMENT.
Minnesota will be ably represented in this
department by President Irwin Shepard, of
the Winona Normal school, who will show in
his usual lucid style, $50 what Extent Pri-
mary Teachers should be Familiar with Kin
dergarten Methods"
Superintendent James MacAlister, former
ly of Milwaukee, now of Philadelphia, will
show ''To What Extent Can the kindergarten
Become Part of the Public School System"
''The Conflict of the Two deals is the
theme chosen by Col Parker of Quincy
fame, while Prof. Straight, or Normalville,
H., win present the Purposes and Scope
of the Manual Training Suggested by Froe-
bel;n Hon. John Hitz, of Washington, will
answer the question ''How Can the Friends
OF Froebe be Organized for Effective Work!n
and Miss Sarah A. Stewart, of Milwaukee
'How Should Efficient Training Schools be
Organized."
HIGHER EDUCATION.
In this department the address Of the
president, Dr. Pickard. Of the Iowa State
university, will inaugurate the deliberations
of section of the association that has done
much in the past to improve the cearacter of
higher professional education in this coun
try. DR.. Folwell, of the state university of
Minnesota, will present paper on Political
Economy in Our Colleges" IS be followed
by Prest. John Bastom, of Madison; Col.
VIM. Preston Johnson, of Louisiana, and
Others eminent in their positions as repre-
sensations of higher education.
NORMAL DEPARTMENT.
The presiding officer of this department is
z. C. Hewitt, president of Illinois Normal
university, who will give the opening ad-
dres, to be followed by DR.. Thomas Hunter
president of the Normal college of New York
city, on ''The necessity for Normal schools. :"
j. Baldwin, a. NJ, widely known as an
author on methods of training, and presi-
dent of the "Sam Houston Normal school
of Texas. will lead in the discussion of this
important topic. Prof. W. H. Payne, of the
university of Michigan; Prof. H. B. Merton,
of the State Normal school, San Jose, Cali
fornia, and Others equally well qualified in
ability and experience to show the needs and
value of professional training 10 prepare
teachers for this responsible work, will pre-
sent papers and participate in the discus
sions.
DEPARTMENT OF sUPERINTESDENcE.
This department is an important one, In
Guiding as it does the heads of state, county
and city systems of instruction, and its de-
alterations have contributed largely to the
advancement of the cause of education in all
sections of the laad. Hon. B. L. Butchey,
of West Virginia, is president. Hon. j. D.
Pickett, the eloquent state superintendent of
education, of Kentucky, viii speak on Estate
Supervision of Schools. CITY and Town
Supervision will be ably discussed by Supt.
r. W Stevenson, of Columbus, Ohio. while
County Supervision viii be presented by