The San Francisco call., 1896-01-01

9Oo Broadway, Dec. 81.
The State Teachers Association will
| meet in this city tomorrow and continue
in session over Saturday New Years day
will be spent in reunions and receptions.
The Alumni Association of the San Jose
State Normal School Will hold reception
from to P. NJ. at their headquarters, at
the Crellin Hotel, and all visiting teachers
and friends are cordially invited. In the
evening at the same place a joint social
reunion of the Chico, Los Angeles and
San Jose State Normal schools will be
held, and teachers and their friends will
be welcome.
| A banquet will be given at the Metro
pole tomorrow to the alumni of the Uni
versity of California who are active
teachers.
Though some Eastern politicians have
been accused of forgetting that California
is on the map, the educational men of the
Nation know that the State is here. There
are some schoolmen who would be q
credit in any country, and who are in some
cases the envy of the Atlantic side. lie
Conte, Howison, Jordan are names that
rise first in the public mind perhaps, but
there is Stringham of Berkeley, who fig
ures more than he talks, who is Euro
pean authority on mathematics. There is
Sanford Of Stanford, prophesied as a
leader in science in 1900 There are Hud-
son and Gayley, equal in critical acumen
to the finest essayists in their especial
lines
In pedagogy Earl Barnes, Elmer Brown
and 2. B. Dresslar are reckoned leaders in
the United States. G. III. Keyes of Pasa-
dena is known in the South as a man of
affairs and the president of a polytechnic
school that with ha4 of Trnu
Louis. p. w. Search. editor of the Ad-
vance in Education and the apostle of in
diYidualism in education, aroused the
whole educational world year or two ago
by his revolutionary doctrines.
Then there is W. H.V. Raymond, an all
asound schoolman, with Just the qualities
that mark the editor of great daily.
Again, there are G. w. ChiIds, E. T. Pierce
and K. +. Pennell, each at the head of g
great normal school, stamping his individ-
uality upon scores of teachers and through
| these upon hundreds of pupils up and
| down the State.
Among the women teachers are Miss
Lucy Washburn, one of the best trained
women in California, who might write sew
erai groups OF letters after her name if she
would Mrs. Mary Sheldon Barnes of Stan
ford, who has written the best general his
tory we have; Miss Elizabeth Packard, one
OF the finest organizers on the coast; Miss
/ L q W
is a household word for wisdom and
strength and many another.
| All OF these and some hundreds of other
! educators are TO meet in this city to dis
! cuss ways and means to increase profes-
sional usefulness. This will be the twenty
ninth annual meeting OF the California
| Teachers Association, which every year
| grows more earnest in efforts to reach the
| highest standard.
Last year the association, meeting at
Santa Cruz, discussed the teaching force
and its preparation, the curriculum OF the
schools and the difficulties in the way of
! employing the ideal teachers and applying
! the ideal curriculum.
! President Kleeberger's plea for educa-
tion that will give ability to discover
| knowledge, to appreciate knowledge, to
use knowledge for the world progress and
| for the understanding of ones own rela-
| ton to the rest of the universe was the
| keynote OF the discussion, which will sound
| again this year.
The mornings OF the sessions will be
| given to reports of standing committees
! appointed last year. The Council of Edu-
dation--the highest body in the State-will,
| through its committee, occupy Thursday
morning, dealing with the correlation of
/ studies.
The manual training schools of the State
will be heard from on Friday morning,
and an exhibit of work will be feature.
The committee on hygiene will occupy
Saturday morning in exploiting the best
| health conditions available in California
The afternoon sessions will, no doubt
attract large conUourse OF laymen also to
! the Congregational church. The psyche
logical side of educational matters will be
the predominant theme. The great enthu-
| siasm manifested all over the country in
studying the child himself in the same in
j teliigent way that bees and ants have been
studied by naturalists is awakening all
! thinking people to great region of hith-
| erto unexpored knowledge. The old dog
mas of education are being swept aside
under the discoveries of the new search
| lights.
The questions: What do we want the
child to become? What is the nature of
| the material we have TO work upon =?
What is the effect OF different studies on
the mind? These are the problems that
psychology is pondering over to-day and
which California may study with the
/ Teachers Association at Oakland.
! The morning session of the convention
will be held in the High School building
and the afternoon and evening sessions in
the First Congregational church.