The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-11-15
SCHOOL PRINCIPALS.
Professor Raym0nd's Address On
the American School Trust.

Professor James w. Anderson, State
Superintendent elect Of Public Instruction,
presided over the weekly meeting of the
Public School Principals Association yes
terday afternoon. and notice was given that
the Committee on the Teachers Pension
Fund would meet at the Girls High School
on Monday afternoon at o'clock.
AT the suggestion OF Principal O'Connor.
committee of three, consisting of James
O'Connor, Z. Brook and A. Herbst, was APP
pointed to wait on the County Auditor and
Treasurer and their successors in office, in
order to ascertain what steps will be taken
by the county officials to make transfer of
funds, in accordance with an act of the
Legislature, to provide for the payment of
salaries of employees of the School Depart
ment
Mrs. Mary W. Kiucaid, Principal of the
Girls High School, delivered an interesting
lecture in which she gave an account OF her
recent European trip, relating especially her
impressions of famous museums and art
rooms in England. Her subject was:
"Some Notes on the Museums OF Northern
Europe" Her description Of the collections
representing the growth Of the different
agrs-stone, bronze and irOn-waS particu-
Iarlv appreciated by The auditors, and for
her effort she received Il vote of thanks.
Plol, SIS n w. Ii. V. Raymond of Sacra-
mentu, Secretary OF the school trust, deliv-
cred an able address on the topic, :" The
American School Trust" which he defined
as Il vast combination of capital, having for
its purpose a general diffusion of knowledge
and intelligence essential, because it is sup
posed 10 give high equality of citizenship.
The educational trust" he said docs not
seem 10 be regarded as any other business in
which money is invested. People shrewd
and eXacting in everything else give little
attention to this, the greatest enterprise In
which they have anything invested"
In concluding, Professor Raymond said;
" The relation OF education to labor and the
laborer is also Inexperienced. Education
is too often regarded, by the poor as well as
the rich, as an agency to lift its possessnr
above labor. rather than an endowment by
which the hardShipS of labor are to be
softened and life in labor sweetened Out
OF this sentiment grows caste, which Is hos
tile to the rights and liberties Of people.
Pre-eminently the education that Is to pro-
tect individual rights and good government
must take hold of the lab9rer. This false
view that liberal education Is not for the
laburer, gives rise, also, to the further
vicious sentiment that the schools should
equip function, rather than manhood, should
give us machines rather than develop
power.
THE work of enliSting for the inves-
tigatlon of new subjects the faculties of OBJ
seryatlon, comparison and discrimination,
IN other words the Work OF training 1uug-
ment and stimulating industry, is no holiday
task, no matter for occasional and curious
experiment. l therefore reach the cOnclu-
sion that the stockholders of this trust, if
they would see lis full returns, must come
to perceive that prosperity depends upon
character rather than coniugaJions, must
withdraw from the attitude that education
lifts lis pOssessor above labor, must empha-
size the truth that education is for labor;
for the honor and glory of life in labor, and
that men rather than machines must be the
product Of the schools"
Professor Raymond also received vote
of thanks, and the association adjourned.