The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-15
EDUCATIONAL.
Initiatory Work Of the National Teachers
Association, in Session at Madison, Wis.

MADISON, Wis, July A.-The work of the Ma
tional Educational Association was initiated this
morning by an official reception at the capitol
building Among those present were his Excel
lency Governor Rusk, ex- Governor Lucius Fair
child, Hon. Thos w Broknell, president;
Of the National Teachers Association
D. B. Hogan, Phi. D., principal Of the Massa
chusetts State Normal School: Larkin Dnnstan,
principal of the Boston Normal School; Rev a.
D. Mayo, Of Boston, and Mayor Bruce Stevens
Of Madison; Walter G. Chase, and other promi
nent educators
1naadressing the INVENTION, President Broknell
ittingiy referred to the open cordiality extended
to the association by Madison, and the generous
spirit Of Wisconsin's chief executive in opening
wide the doors of the capitol to the associations
convention; the teachers were grateful, and
would long remember both Madison and the
State for its unprecedented efforts to promote
education by assisting the work of the National
Teachers Association, and securing comfort TO
the visiting members.
Among the subjects discussed were Science of
Pedagogics,7 and College Preparation THE
Experience of the Race as Recorded in Books
The End of the School is chiefly to prepare a
pupil to avail himself of the observations and re-
Elections OF mankind results of their ethical ex-
peTience and of solutions to problems Of life as
portrayed in literature Prof. G. Stanley Hall
OF Harvard College, claimed that normal schools
devoted too much time to routine ethical work:
professors of pedagogy were the general need
Lemuel Moss, Pm. D., president of the State
University of Indiana, representing the com.
mittee on college preparation, in re-
port to the council, discussed the work
of private and corporate academies, classical and
public high-sehools as fitting schools for col
legiate work. The American college was de-
fined as a well known type of institution for lib
eral training and a bachelor of arts degree, inn
plying a good working knowledge of Greek
Latin and ether subjects. The report asked for
the maintenance Of this degree with its
distinctive character ard name and mentioned
as preparatory course for it, three years OF
Greek and four of Latin, with corresponding
knowledge Of mathematics, English language
and history. 1t also asked for other equivalent
baccalapreate degrees, with suitable prepa-
ration for the same. The report recon-
mended that the ordinary courses Of
study of modern languages and natural
sciences be left for college students in college
courses.
An animated discussion followed the report
by John Hancock LII D., of Ohio; VIM A.
Moury Phi. D.. of Boston: T. Louis Sedan, OF
st Louis President Foiwell, of Minnesota State
University; Prof Packard of Iowa State
University, and Prof C. %. Thomson, of Indiana.
John B. Peasley superintendent of schools at
Cincinnati, claimed that there was a universal
tendency to crowd the high-schooi curriculum
which discouraged lligheschool attendance
The evening session included the formal
opening of the Froebel Institute of North
America by Prof. w. n Haelmann of Indiana
with an address on the Essentials of the New
Education