The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-22


will last four days, beginning July 8
and closing July IL. It will be preceded
by four day session of the national ed
ucationaI council, body of so teachers
chosen from the general membership,
beginning July and closing July 8,
and followed by afternoon meetings on
July 10, II and 10 of the various de-
partments - kindergarten, elementary
education, secondary education, higher
education, normal education, music, art,
business, industrial and child study.
Meetings of the Herbart club will be
held on July 10 and II. These topics
will be discussed at the morning sessions
of the general convention: o-ordina-
ton of Studies In Elementary Educa-
ton, - ''The Duty and Opportunity of
the Schools In Promoting Patriotism
and Good Citizenship" and ''The In
struction and Improvement of Teachers
Now at Work In the Schools. -
The Importance of this great gather
ing of men and women devoted to the
cause Of education cannot we'll be over
estimated. 1t is an exceedingly signif
cant sign of the times that the teachers
in the public schools of America are
sufficiently awake to the necessity of
keeping abreast of the general progress
of the world, and to the value of a free
interchange of individual opinions, to
be willing to devote the time and ex-
pense necessary to the holding of such a
| convention. Last year election of Pro-
fessor Nicholas Murray Butler of Co.
lumbia college, New York. chief editor
of The Educational Review, as presiding
officer is another encouraging sign, for
while Professor Butler is one of the
foremost educational workers in the
land he is neither public school teach
er nor a superintendent, and until 1894
the association had never gone outside
the ranks of these two branches Of edu-
cational work in the selection of its Off
GERS. There is no doubt that in choosing
DIR. Butler, moreover, the association
acted with great wisdom, for. despite
the fact that he is not public school
man himself, he has been intimately as
ISOLATED with public school teachers for
years and his work as editor of The Edu-
cational Review has been very impor-
tant, since, as is freely conceded, he per-
sonally represents the most progressive
tendencies in the profession of teachers
and the methods of pedagogics. AS a
member of the New Jersey state board
of education also he has had occasion to
get very close to the ground in the mat
ter Of public school training. At Column
bia college he is professor Of philosophy.
The other general officers who will
act all through the coming conven-
ton are: Vice president, Albert G.
Lane, superintendent of schools, Chi
cago; secretary, Irwin Shepard. presi-
dent of the State Normal school, Vino
| ma, MINI. treasurer, James NJ. Greene
wood, superintendent of schools, Kan
sas City; chairman board of trustees,
DR.. N. A. Call1ins, assistant superin-
tendent Of schools in New York city.
While there was no contest over the
election, there were two most lively
battles during last years convention.
One of these had reference solely to the
place of holding this years convention,
and resulted in failure to agree before
the close of the session, so that the set