The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-10-22
COlNMUNTCATYONs.
The State Teachers Convontron

ahe state Teachers Convention
10 the Editor of the JOURNAL AND CouRrEp
/ Perhaps 1t is no more than inst that
/ the "school-marm" herself should have
an opportunity to express her opinion
on the advantages, social or educational
Of the State Teachers convention. !
trust mat there are none Of us who
read with anything but a feeling 81
indignation the editorial headed ..Intel-
lectually unentertaining," in the Regis
ter Of Saturday evening. We all recoe-
nize that in many respects the animal
convention is failure; many of the
papers are poor, and many Of the sneak
ers unhtted for the task assigned them /:
much talking is done that Is much worse
than useless, many ideas put forth as
original which are trite and common
place to degree, and no outsider can
realize these facts as forcibly as the
teachers who faithfully attend the meet.
lngs each year. There are many other
FEATURES of the convention which we
regret. Among the two thousand or
more men and women who were pres-
emit at the meetings on Friday MANY
more than We would like to confess
We're there because they had To ba.
Whlie others came for good time, and
'nat only. The laughing and talking
Whlch interrupted so many of the
speeches should be most decidedly ana
heartily condemned, and there are other
points which We have not space here
70 enumerate, which go to prove that
the convention is far from being All
tnat we wished it. But in spite OF all
TINS think we cannot let pass without
a protest the statement made in, tho
Register that 'tthe value of these meet
lhss Aes IN the social charm of them,
not in the dry papers read and tnatten-
lively listened to-"
From all over the state come to tbese
meetings young women, many of whom
are teaching in country schools. under
almost every disadvantage. no stimulus
or inspiration from school committee or
and every possible encourage
ment TO become lifeless machine. And
yet not infrequently do we find that
these very young women are earnest
and enthusiastic to a degree which as
us. For such as these the con- /
Vention is not a social affair; thev do
lot come for ''chattering" and "furtive-
y gazing at each others GARMENTS,
hey come for inspiration and sugges-
ion, for new ideas and for new impetus
o carry on their work, and they do not
all to get it. What may seem to one
up in the city, trite and COM
nonplace, is often to them new and
lelpful, and they go back filled with en-
husiasm and encouragement.
Not only for the teacher in the conn
~ school is the convention helpful We
Who have the inestimable privilege of
eaching in city, with lectures and Z
Meetings to stimulate and keep alive
ur interest, libraries and museums In
uide and teach us, are far from being !
Justified in thinking that to us it can Of
ar nothing. If the New Haven public is
I'd by the Register to believe that all
ne teachers gained from the Friday
leeting was a pleasant social time
would like TO correct the impression. /
Te recognized when the papers were I
oor, but We also recognized when ,
good was said. The brief ]
marks made in the morning by Mr.. /
obbins and Mr.. Morrill, were well worth Y
he hearing, while those Of us who had I
he privilege of listening to Dir. Ken {
all in the afternoon felt that We had /