The herald., 1896-12-06
farewell TO TEACHERS
Last Session of Southern
California Institute
I week OF UNI|R|NG EFFORT
An Era in the Educational His.
tory Of the State
MANY HELPFUL ADDRESSES
Professor Kinks Paper Oh :" The Educa.
,ional Conflict
Rspsst Of tbs Committee on Resolutions.
Votes of Thanks
Many of the Teachers Enjoy Jaunt to
Mt Lowe-A Pleasant Half
Holiday After the
Weeks Work.
MANY HELPFUL ADDRESSES
Professor Kinks Paper Oh :. The Educa.
l0nal Conflict
Repsst Of this Committee on Resolutions.
Votes OF Thanks

After a week of incessant and untir-
ing effort in county and city institutes
followed by that of Southern California,
the general session of the latter held its
closing meeting yesterday morning in
the Broadway Methodist church. After
the usual opening chorus. President Fo-
shay introduced Prof S. 7. Black, state
superintendent. Mr.. Black spoke briefly
Of the educational feeling in our state,
of the desire among our people to fur
ther all movements that tend to the i'm
provement in courses of study and ad-
yancement in our schools. He spoke in
commendatory terms of the National
association, in its efforts to establish
an educational literature.
The meeting of that body in San Fran
cisco in 1888 marks an era in our educa-
tional history and now that association
needs a new inspiration itself there can
be no better place to find it than in Los
Angeles in 1898.
Prof. Linscott of Santa Cruz. president
of the State Teachers associatnon pre-
sented the claims of that body to the
teachers of the southern counties. He
deems it of signal Importance that IN the
county Institutes, and the southern Cal
ifornia institute, there shall be some
thing done that can be carried on from
year to year that shall give permanent
impulse to the work. This includes a
portion of time for the consideration OF
the great problems now before the coun-
ell of education in planning new course
of study for primary schools.
Mr.. e. P. Cubberly of San Diego, re-
cent arrival in California, followed in a
paper on School Organization. He made
a strong plea for the severing OF the
schools from politics. Trial boards OF
education should be selected from the
city at large, without regard to wards,
and should be men of acknowledged
fitness for the position. The offices OF
state geologist and superintendent
should be appointive and not elective.
Politics is the greatest curse OF our edu-
oational system; our schools should be
freed from its stultifying influence. 1t
is only of late years that our colleges
have been free, though their bondage
was more religious than political. Ihe
man who was no longer useful IN the
pulpit was considered eminently mt for
the presidents chair of college.
Prof Dozier, who followed IN the dls-
cussion, warmly endorsed what the
sneaker had said, and commended his
moral courage in expressing his opinion
on the subject.
IIe proposed that committee from the
institute be appointed by the chair 10
confer with the state organization, with
a view of bringing the matter before
the next legislature. Beng put IN the
form Of a motion before the house and
unanimously carried. Prof. Foshay sub
seuuently named: Melville Dozier of Los
Angeles. F. E. Perham of Santa Ana, Il.
p Cubberly of San Diego, Margaret Mo-
geau of San Bernardino, Earl Barnes OF
or1 ,1niuprSitN and Mrs. Nj. j. FLICK
to act on said committee.
Prof T. II. Kirk of San Bernard1no
made the closing address, entitled The
Educational Conflict. The speaker said
conflict began when time began and
this irrepreSsible conflict is the struggle
going on between organized society and
the individual. There was a time when
men roamed at WILL but with the con-
quoring cohorts of Rome came the sup
preston of the individual. The con-
iict will go on until time shall end. The
individual is trained in this age COM
pared to the savage of the olden day
but he yet feels restraint; he is not free
to feel, % speak, to act as he should
among his feloW-men. All mans inner
most thoughts are struggling for eX-
preston in world that is despotic. The
modern despot is modern society, with
it's musts and it's continual calls to duty.
The Individual sees into the shams, but
he must conform to endless decalogues
and the constant cry of duty in his dress,
in his church creedS and if he dareS eX-
press something against his creed he is
brought before a church council. In poll
tics he is made to suffer. and all these
experiences beat him back into his own
consciousness. The individual is still
under the yoke and the yoke is chained
to the chariot wheel The hope of the in
dividual is in his being left to feel. think
and speak his highest impulses The
hope of society is the evolution of the
individual. Under his leadership So
ciety is to go on fearlessly toward the
highest ideal that has come to man
kind. The duty of rational society is to
live up to the measure of its nationality
The. schoolmen and women might live
up to this nationality. might set the pupil
free from the traditional lines of the old
schools. We might give these children
opportunity TO give expression to their
purposes. He would plead for the new
utilitarianism that permits the indi-
vidual to bring out of himself the best
and highest that is in him.
This closing the literary part of the
exercises, the chairman called for re-
ports of committees.
The committee on resolutions reports ed
as follows
Resolved That the present meetina
has been most helpful, inspiring and
successful. and that its beneficial re-
suits for permanent good will be felt is
the schools throughout Southern Cali
fornia; that this success is largely daC
to the untiring and efficient efforts o
President J. A. F'oshay and associate
members of the executive committee
and that the thanks of this association
are the same; that the instructors, on,
and all. who contributed their val
liable services be assured of our appre
citation and gratitude. and that ou
special thanks are due Charles X. Skin
ner,. president of the National Educa
tional association: DR.. f. A. Winship
w. N. Hailmann Mara l.. Pratt and A
NJ. Mowry for bringing to our notice th'
best educational thought of our co
workers of the east
That we hereby acknowledge our in
debtedness to Superintendent S. T
Black. ]. w. Linscott. president of tn,
State Teachers association to both ou
universities, whose representatives have
shown by their presence and co-opera
tion such entire and Intelligent intefes