The herald., 1893-05-18
WOMAN AS AN EDUCATOR.
No Lickin' No Larnin', Is a
Thing of the Past.
Young Ideas Taught to Shoot
by Gentler Means.
A Los Angeles Woman Shown Marked
Honors at Chicago.
Mrs. Kate Taper Galpfn Addresses the
Worlds women's Congress-Her
Remarks Received with
Great Applause.

Speclhl 10 the dERALD.I
CHICAGO, May 17.-The congress OF
representative women of the auxiliary
of the worlds Columbian exposition
held its seven several department con-
crosses" at the art palace, and the gen
eral sessions" in the great audience
rooms of the same magnificent building,
today. Large numbers OF women were
present at each of the meetings, but
rather the largest and most enthus siastic
crowd, with generous sprinkling of the
sterner sex, attended the general ses-
sion" Of the morning, that being de-
voted to the discussion of educational
matters.
The main address was delivered by
Mrs. Kate Tupper Galpin of Los Ange-
les, on The Ethical Influence of Woman
in Education.
As in the case of less pretentious
efforts at home, Mrs. Galpin's address
was a very pronounced success. Her
hearers had evidently grown tired of
hearing treatiees on dress reforms which
do not reform, and of listening to the
oft-repeated story of mans political in
humanity to woman.
Like the other Representative
women," Mrs. Galpin has her hobby /;
but it is hobby in which every loyal
American is more or less interested, it
being the United States common school
system. She dealt with the subject as-
signed to her by the worlds congress
committee, not from the standpoint OF
what women had been deprived of by
man. nor what she might obtain, with
or without mans assistance, but from
the point of view of woman glad to
discover her own strength and eager to
use it for humanity's good.
Mrs. Galpin's long experience as a
teacher, beginning in the square white
echoolhouse OF a little Iowa village, and
progressing grade by grade to the pro-
fessorehip of pedagogy in the University
OF Nevada, has given her the right to
speak as one having authority; her lit
erary attafnmente are sdch as to enable
her to prepare an address at once logical
and elegant, and her intense earnestness
confers an eloquence more effective than
mere oratory. Add to these character
istics sonoroue voice aud distinct
enunciation, and not much more is
needed to explain the enthusiastic re-
ception of the speakers remarks.
"'Spare the rod and spoil the child, y"
said the speaker, for generations almost
uncounted was accepted as brief state
ment of the whole art and science of ed
ucation nor was any substitute offered
until Mrs. Means OF Indiana still further
concentrated the same sentiment into
the briefer apothegm, mo lickin', no
larnin'.'
"Out of woman's very inability to
lick the bove' has grown the better
way. Corporal punishment has disap-
peared from schools where woman'e in
huence is paramount, and it ia alto
gether too late to question the goodness
OF the results; strange to say-or rather
it is not strange to say-the good effects
are most manifest in those ignorant and
disorderly communities where, in the
bad old times, to rule by the stick was
supposed to be the only method of OBJ
tanning attention or obedience"
Mrs. Gslpin casually departed from
her subject and caused a ripple OF
laughter by saying that the assertion
educational mo lickin', no larnin'," and
the assertion political "No fightin', no
votin'," we're also true in the converse
That, whereas, under the MANAGEMENT
of woman, at school the boy got learn
ing but no licking, so when political
equality of the sexes shall obtain there
will be voting but no fighting.
Dealing with the general results OBJ
tanned under the reorganized system,
aside from the imparting of merely text
book information, the speaker very
forcibly brought out the fact that the
American citizen of today received from
women practically all the training given
until the boy attained the voting age.
The lessons of obedience, of honesty, of
punctuality, of respect for the rights of
Others and the sturdy msintaining of his
own rights, were lessons the boy breathee
in with the very air of the American
school room; and in the proper teach.
ing and the proper learning of those
lessons lies the hope of the people, and
the very perpetuity of republican forms
of government.
In brilliant peroration Mrs. Galpin
expressed her souls conviction that
womsn's influence In education had
been unquestionably and immensely
good; that the work she had been given
to do had been thoroughly we'll done !;
that woman had shown. not only that
she should be trusted further than in
the direction of juvenile education, hut
that the necessity for her larger partici-
patton in the management of affairs be-
came daily more manifest to clear think
ing and right thinking minds.
ANGELENo.