The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-06-06
NORTH CAROLINA
TEACHERS ASSEMBLY
The Annual Session This Year at Morehead
CITY, June I5th---25th Inclusive.
On to Morehead!

On to Morehead!
That is the cry of hundreds of teacher:
and friends Of education in all sectlohS
of North Carolina.
The annual session OF the Ieacher
Assembly will be held this year IN ia
old home adjoining the Atlantic Hote
at Morehead City. The most pieasah'
and profitable sessions ever held OF thls
strong right arm of educational progress
vara held at Morehead, and there was
universal approval and rejoicing when IL
was announced that this years session
world be held in the building erected by
the Assembly for the holding of the year
~ sessions.
The indications are that there Will
he more teachers present this year than
at any previous session of the Assembly,
for the Secretary's correspondence has
been so large that it has required day
and night to answer the question from
teachers of all grades from the University
and College professors to the teachers III
the log school houses in the mountains.
They all have their faces set ocean-ward
and Assembly ward, and are making
their preparations for a combined sum-
mer trip and two weeks of study and
Improvement.
The arrangements and programme this
year are as near perfect as it is possible
for them to be made. The officers OF
the Assembly have labored with intelli
gent zeal.
Secretary Parker has shown that he is
the right man in the right place. He
has devoted most of his time for the
past year to getting ready for the coming
Assembly, and he has interested the
teachers in a way that shows he keeps
State He has succeeded in keeping the
teachers alert to advance the teaching
profession, and has sought the counsel of
the wisest of them in the efforts put
forth to make the coming Assembly the
leading force in the great educational
campaign that will be waged for local
taxation in every school district in the
State this summer.
A glance at the programme which we
are glad to print below, shows that the
work mapped out for the Assembly has
been arranged with view to improve
ment of the teachers, but at the same
time there has been provided entertain
ment to fill the hours of recreation and
the evenings
The Teachers Assembly lis not only
ton and education are taught, and where
IDEAS and experiences are exchanged. but
Is also an assembly where teachers and
parents meet on a common plane to dis
cuss the best methods for the instruction
Of children and to labor together to pro-
mote healthy educational sentiment in
the State. For this reason membership
is open to friends of education as we'll as
TO teachers, and the cooperation has pro-
duced the best results
Embracing as it does the best thought
Of educators, public and private, the
Teachers Assembly is forum of the
first order. In addition to the teachers
of ability who comprise it's membership
there are many able men in other walks
of life who attend and whose speeches
haJy 70 l~a +
unlike any other body in the State.
Last year when the Teachers Assem-
bly, met in Asheville, the ability of its
members impressed all who attended the
sessions. The Gazette, published in that
mountain resort where gatherings Of the
greatest men in America are held yearly,
said of the speaking at the Assembly:
AThe Gazette has given much space to
reports of speeches at the Teachers AS
sembly and little space to comment upon
them, believing the substance of the
speeches to be of more interest to its
readers than editorial or repOrtorial ad-
Jectiyes, and that the province of a
newspaper is to give it's readers what is
Of most interest to them rather than to
undertake literary criticism. The Ga
Zette, however, cannot refrain from say
ing that whatever is lacking in the North
Carolina school system-and the speak
ers at the Assembly frankly admit that
much is lacking-there is no dearth of
earnest men and women teachers with
a pronounced gift for public speaking.
The Gazette has never known so large
an assembly with so great proportion
Of speakers endowed with clear mental
grasp combined with grace and ease of
diction and that power for holding the
attention and interest of an audience
given by sympathetic and forceful ut
terance. 1t doubts that an Assembly with
this distinction could be called together
in any other State in the Union. The
speeches of the North Carolina Teachers
Assembly-and the men and women who
have addressed it ably sustain the repu-
tation of Southern oratory-as an oratory
which combines culture with native elo-
quence"