Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-30
CONVENTION OF TEACHERS
1t Will Assemble Next Month in the City
OF Buffalo
Mrs. Sara A. Spencer Gives Some Ac.
count of the National Educa-
tiOnnl Association.

Twenty thousand teachers are expected
| to attend the gathering of the national
! educational convention. to be held at Buff
/ falo, from July to July II.
| Mrs. Sara A. Spencer. who is much inter-
| ested in the success Of the great meeting,
| in speaking Of the National Educational
| Association to a Star reporter, said:
! ut Is to the educational interests of this
| country practically what Congress is to it's
/ government. 1t brings to a focus, formu-
| lates and announces to the educational
world the combined head thought Of the
| leading educators of the age. Its vast in
crease in numbers, from ten to twelve and
| fifteen thousand, might not necessarily i'm
| ply corresponding power and efficiency, if
| II were not for It's admirable administration
| and leadership, which secure harmonious
! classification and the presentation and dis
| cussion of new, vital home truths for the
| enligh terment ard development of the
teachers Of the land.
! New departments are opened every
| year. At present, in addition to the de-
partment Of superintendent, which holds
its annual meetings separately from the
parent association, there are fourteen sec
tions--the kindergarten, elementary. sec
ondary, higher, normal, art, music, indus
/ trial, business training, child study, physi-
cal culture, natural science, school admin
| istration and National Herbarium Society
{ These do not appear to conflict with each
I
; sions held in the forenoon, this year in
Bufalo's magnificent music hall, and the
! department sessions in the afternoon, twice
q week, so that each member NAV gather
in all the wealth Of thought at the public
sessions, attend his own special department
meetings OF alternate after moons and on
the other afternoons attend such meetings
| as interest him most"
/ But this association does not expect to
| finally include all the teachers in the
| land?'
|
! by Illuminating the atmosphere in which
| they work Naturally the leading educators
| OF a state or section will ally themselves
directly with the association and seek to
! attend every assembly. Through them in
| their own fields of work there will radiate
general influence and impulse toward
new educational ideas. a more tender re-
gard for the child and his environments
| their needs OF 10000 teachers in this
| lana there are few indeed who are not d.
rectly and indirectly blessed and benef ed
| by these educational assemblies"
| How is washington represented in ,his
| organization?"
| AT Saratoga Springs In '92 there were
| thrty-five teachers from the District Of CO.
| lumbia; at Asbury Park in '94 there were
! twenty; at Chicago in '93 our District
| teachers lost themselves in the exposition
and the congresses and only seven were
registered at Denver, Colo, last year
| there were eleven; this year at Buffalo
| there should be fifty at least"
Who are some Of the Washington men,
| bers?'
| Among life members are Zalmon P.
| Richards. one of the original founders of
! the association forty years ago; VIM. T.
| Harris, United States commissioner Of edu-
| cation; ]. Ormond Wilson, Alexander Ora
| ham Bell Ri. Rev. John l.. Keane of The
| Catholic University. Among the active
members are B. L. whitman. president
! Columbian University: VIM. B. Powell,
| superintendent Of public schools; John
| Eaton and Mr.. Allan Davis, principal Bust
/ ness High School; Miss Anna Tolman
| Smith. bureau Of education, and many
| Others"
| How have you succeeded with the work
| assigned to you at Denver?'
| I'm conference with the bureau of educa-
ton 1 have selected a committee Of nine
! representative business educ ators of Amer
| lea to investigate and report upon nine
/ topics forming a curriculum for business
| colleges with a view to raising the stand
| ard Of business education throughout the
| country. These nine have selected eigh-
| teen others to assist them. 50 that twenty
| seven presidents Of business colleges are
| at work on these problems, and fifteen of
| them will report progress at Buffalo.
| An ong these. Mr.. Allan Davis Of this city
! will report on Curriculum for Business
| High Schools"
| Never before in the history Of the or
| ganization have such whole-souled royal
| preparations been made for the reception
| of the teachers Of the land as Buffalo is
providing. The wealth. culture and philan-
| thropy of that city are placed generously
| at the service Of this great assembly. 1t is
| near to Washington, nearer than the NJ e.
A. convention Will be again for a series of
| years. Buffalo is preparing for 10000
teachers, and they will be there."