The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-06-22
OFFICERS OF THE SCHOOLS.
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE COUNTY
UPERINTENDENTS.
Benefits Derived from Regular Valuations
OF schools Set Forth In = Lengthy Paper
Other Ideas Suggested in the Readers Of
Papers and Leaders of Discussion.

About one hundred intellActual-loo
men, varying In age from very young gen.
tlemen with smooth faces to serious gray
haired men, convened in the capitol Tues
day morning. They were the Indiana
county superintendent holding their
twelfth annual session. The president of
the association, MIR. G. w. Osborne, an
nounced at the opening of the session the
following committee on resolutions: w.
NJ. Moss, Greene county; L. o. Dale, Wa
bash; c. W. Welman, Sullivan; F. NJ.
Searles, Grant; w. G. Snyder, Brown
county. The first subject for discussion
was county superintendents' official visits.
An able paper on THE Objects and Bene-
fits of School Visitation" was then read by
c. w. Thomas of Harrison county, who
said:
Ali successful industries must possess
classification and system, and have head
vested with the power to devise plans and
keep all the subordinates of the various
departments in their proper places and at
their assigned duties. While each work
man is held responsible for his individual
task there must be some one responsible
Tor the general result This absolute need
OF supervision is universally recognized in
all mechanical employments, in govern
mental affairs, in trade, In TACT in every
! branch OF industry. The same law pre-
walls in school work.
He urged that the good results of super
intendents' visitation to the schools would
be increased efficiency of the schools; ele-
walton OF the poorest schools to the
standard OF the best ascertaining whether
, or not teachers are performing their duty f;
assisting young and inexperienced teach
ers; seeing that schools are properly
graded and classified seeing that the rules
| and regulations of the county board OF
| education are faithfully observed; en-
abling the superintendent to license the
teachers intelligenty-a duty too i'm
| portant to guess at; creating an incentive
on the part OF teacher and pupil to do
| better work; stimulating parents and
arousing the entire community to take
more interest in the school; educating
| school trustees and director bv showing
them the needs of the schools and the i'm
| pOrtance of performing well their duties
| obtaining the information essential to
| form basis for the needed changes and
| improvements; guiding the board of edu-
| cation In ts subsequent legislation; main
taing order and system in unifying the
work of the county, and thus ecnnomizin ne
and centralizing the various forces in pro-
ducing the greatest amount of good.
The paper was discussed by p r. Wads
worth OF Daviess county, WHO said there
was hardly a county in the state where
the leading taxpayers were not opposed to
the county superintendent, but this spiri,
was being removed. The legislature, il
was main aimed, cripples the work of Wis
ting schools by putting TOO much Office
| work on the superintendent. Mr.. George
| K. Wilson of Dubois stated that the county
superintendent was expected to spend
! about three-fourths OF his time in exam
| lining reports, but ne was paid $500 for Wis
iting schools and $500 for clerical work
He spoke OF the value OF personal solici
tation to teacher and pupil. Mr.. G. w
| Welman. Quitman Jackson, [. A. Mott
and others took part in the discussion.
| After the noon intermission S. w. TAYLOR
OF Warrick county read paper on 'Wha
| | Do and Say when Visit Schools" re-
lating many incidents and giving practIca
advice in regard to overcoming many Of
the existing evils found in county schools
| Messrs. F. b. George Stolzer, w. S. Ellis.
| Goodwin and others discussed this paper
Music was furnished by Misses Parr anC
| Dlener.
Mr.. w. H. Eichhorn of Wells county
read paper ON the "Uniform Require
ments and Uniform School Privileges il
the Public Schools of Indiana" in which
he stated that the question of school emu
meration provoked mucl, discussion
among the managers OF schools. ''Tht
enumeration" he said, being made the
basis of the state school fund makes it
matter of Importance. Since only those
who attend our schools can receive
the direct benefits of the fund appor
toned to the school, method more JUS
to all would be to enumerate the persons
in the school. The best plan would be K
count the full DAYS of attendance of the
bona fde members of the school, anC
I make that basis upon which to distrib
ute the funds OF the state. The course
OF study in county and town schools be
low the high school should be made e
| correspond in all grades below the high
school, and the same standard of exami
nation and promotion required" The pa
per was discussed by Willis A. Fox. Noble
county; G. NJ. Merics. DeKalb county
g. w. Ellis, Elkhart county.