The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-12-30
STATE TEACHERS.
Large Attendance at the
Second Days Session
Of the Association.
DR.. JAMES N. GREENS ADDRESS
Discussion Of Important Educa-
tionaI Matters-Miss Allen
Of Jersey City on the
Pension Fund.
DR.. JAMES NJ. GREENS ADDRESS
Special to the Jersey Cdtu Nsacs.

/ Jersey State Tea cheers, Association held it's
second days session IN The a,,dftoril1m Of
the State Schools beginning at min
o'clock YESTERDAY morning. The increase
in the attendance. NOT only of teachers
but Of the general public was strong tes-
timony to the interest that is felt in
educational matters. The features of the
morning session were the addresses by
Charles J. Baxter. state School Superin-
tendent, DR.. James N. Green, Principal
of the State Normal School: Levi Seeley,
Phi. D., and Martin G. Brombaugh, A. NJ,
Phi. D.. of the University Of Pennsyl-
vania.
The subject OF State Superintendent
Bakers address was ssThe Social Status
of the Teacher
He said hat every community is a COM
pcsite. and in this country the elements
of so-called society are left to s~eggregate,
congregate and adjust themselves in line
with their likes and dislikes, affinities
repuision, tastes and talents, very much
as nature leaves her elements free to
assert and crystalline, in obedience to
their chemistry and mechanics. In nature
we find The 9ilv and ooza fl,a rosa ana the
deaa1v ns1b+ sb.aa 1870 - 80
Hsl' snaue, LIE iieaihis herp anu
the serpent, J~uxtaposed by immutable
/ laws, which are beyQDd human n0Wer 10
oontro, o. dsraat
nv - -
~ eeacner must pc a person OF the
proadest sympathy. From the con-
glomerate mass about him IL brought 10
b;s y,;1,s 49,. 81. -
49, n4nu ! stlS1s anu NOT uiei
dleel years VIII y pc known which is the
chaff and which is the golden grain. The
| community sho,,,d 1wnan- - $1,000.
CO. a.aso ~
500 aeauaAnSance VIII tena 10 strengthen
the parents sense of obligation and reveal
to them the fact that the teacher is NOT
81 m,,cb tba,r ss.s,aas 80
- servant as ine'f coaaJutor
~ tne STANDARDIZATION OF the most I'M
portant trust that has been confided to
them. Many a teacher Is = bettar- and
+,uer fia,a ~ aIlss -
80 : ~ shes chiio tnan one OF It's
MN, VINO SIMPLY esteelms his province to
clothe, feed and shelter the offsDring who
have been committed II h;s 80 Tha
+aaahan,. .ss~sr.
~ iueltity o. interest," Win every
parent should make him, next to the
Clergyman. the mest loved rasnected ana
trusted ono 4 ~ amaS - =
1S. o = - eoiituuniey. Inns -
= sociai STATUS not 10 Pc desplsed. Inc
teachers democratic tendencies make him
as much the friend of fhe child of tha
day laborer as of the child Of the promin-
emf citizen, and the latter IS not accorded
courtesies and privileges that the hum
blest member Of his school cannot claim.
70 show the Importance of the work of
the teacher, the speaker said that imam
cSal and business trusts of great import
ance are given to those only responsible
for them, but the highest measure of con-
hdence, and the fnort eacred trust that can
be committed to anyone is committing
ones children for developing and train
ng. Here are interests that pertain for
veal or woe that pertain to Two worlds.
ject 1.-THE New Jersey System Of Securing
Teachers He said in part:-