Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-03-04
THE WORLDS EDUCATORS
Closing Session Of the international
Congress.
Learned Papers on Some of the Great
Problems Of To-Day.

Under the above caption the Times
Democrat OF the 2sth ult. has the fol-
lowing to ssy of the part taken by our
superintendent of city schools, and
THE GAZETTE cheerfully gives place
TO what the Democrat has reported:
The fourth days session OF tho congress OF
educators was held yesterday morning In
Tulane hall.
man OF the executive committee OF the Inter
national association OF educators. called the
meeting TO order.
thor The talented educator, Hon. Alexander
Iogg, superintendent OF public schools oi
Fort Wor, h, Tex. His theme was The Rail
road In Education an abstract OF which Is
He very graphically sketohed the rapid
| st ides OF science, grouping particularly the
| successive steps OF science and the applca-
| ton OF steam and electricity. Bald he;
| "Steam aud electricity motor and messen-
| gsr--hsve wed with, not rivaled each other
| In Transporting and Transmitting, until there
| is no speech, nor language where their voice
| ls not heard. Their line ~ gone out through
| all the earth, and their words 10 the end OF
| the world'h he discussed the different
| meanings 81 "educere" and "educare', whlle
favoring education. SAID he: ~ claim tnere
cnn be no liberal education without the olss.
| sizes and that the fret place should DO as.
signed our mother tongue.
He hore added that the Greeks knew sno
| other than tueir mother tongue-that Tho
| Roman did not go abroad TO study until ne
/ had mastered tne L9tin."
| lie argued that science followed the great
law OF supply and demand. That hen n aus
| , ension bridge was demanded science iur-
nlshed a George Koebiing, as II had George
Stephenson, 10 build u locomotive. The I'M
| nresslon made ON him by the Niagara bridge
| as compared with the Fallt 1.-The one thework
| of The Creator. the other tue WORK OF bis
creation-was very eloPuently ana touch-
Ills aniilyeis OF the operations OF railroads
as distributed through the various depart
menis, showed how valuable accuracy was
in tile movements of trains, that In tine traiilc
; department was heatd the e1pie.non, 80
many mills per ton per mile, thst mere
| reaiiy we had use for lhls hohehtity III Oui
u lie is Vef5 graphically pointed 10 the opora.
lions of the English IN Soudhn; ln9t hthlii
"some one had blnndered;" that II Palmers'
ton had Quilt n rnilroad from AFRO 10 khsI
| toun u ere would not have been feDei IN
the Soudan TO annoy Olsoslohe, ,,,..,,,,a
. | army that never enlarged us base never
broke IL. lines OF Communication, That ms
American railroad was peaSe'n,iS 1aa uiiS,,'
our religion and our customs u 10 mexico
into Central America, into South Amerlca
! | that ~ was but question OF time whsS
Z there would be a Joining OF Brazil Rnd Chill
I with Japan and India, 81. Petersburg ant
Moscow, for, said he, soon we shall pierce
| Alaska with a railroad, ana GROSS behIlhs
| stratus In a steamer, thus uniting the coo
| tinent, ihs south and the Nortn and thS
z | West and the East by continuous nnes
| really realizing Columbus ideal passage
| west TO toe East Indies,
His epitome OF the CHARITIES OF mo gree
a railroad managers, THE American IrlumYi
: | rate In action" Aessrs. Vanderbilt, scoit az
Q barrett their benitDenec, their AID 10 ih
G advancement OF higher education, sclennn
! research, and 10 the uplifting ana hlleVlhtl
~ mankind generally, was Wen prehehteu
Ills classircatlon of the exposition as IN
greatest echool OF instruction, ana now
would result, was well illustrated.
Said he your city, New CTieanf, ukeo 20 =
=, the outlet OF the Mississippi only line hlAt
, CITY Of the great valley but hereaitsr, 10 ho
i dition 10 this, n VIII be the outlet loI Nsl
L HeViro and the Pacific cos1i, Tor, SAID ~
= | New Orleans is 0f0 miles nearer ran iran
y cisco shan New York Is. with thls aoNAu
V lace WHO fenid be "can doubt the futnre :
& yo1lr already greSt city,
, 1 he ala mot forget 10 speak OF Texas an
y how she had attained her pTeteul poAluo
l. throueh the indissolubls bonds q her scnot
z secuons OF lands, with the raliIosI hitel
y mates. that her schools woula npuIlsh W
:, become strong financially ~ tne 5siiie ~
y ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of their lanns tne
n syhsn fhe land .hould be disposed Of IeNs
4 | Sronld have n fund Of rJt,Ol0i o. Tor htt w
= lie schools that ~ present she was Eble
" | nav f5 each for the n ,holaslc pOpnlhhol
VI still 10 make this more efhelenl ioluci ~.
=. a In proportion Of the populahoN' thei
. | must be q local tax. - - ,t,,.
- That ef tie screEf1J oHr towns hnn tlti III.
N thai had takon charge o. tier ncnooVlHf ~
~ plementlng the slate apIfopIihu,osn ~
u rrnectaf taT Eizty-siH Of them were on ~
q INES AZ the railroad. Thst the eigif oths'
wore accessible 10 tbs roads. fhhl ne hVp0