New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-08
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
MRS ALICE FREEMAN PALMER AID
DRESSES THE EDUCATION
ASSOCIATION.
SIZE ASKS FOR BETTER GOVERNMENT. A BETTER
GRADE OF TEACHERS AND BETTER CoNDI-
TONS UNDER WHICH TO WORK.

TONS UNDER WHICH TO WORK.
-1A phil, Education Association opened IS win
ga course Yesterday afternoon az No. 500 Fifth
ave Mrs Schuyler Van Rensselaer, in the chair.
Before Introducing the speaker o: the day Mrs Van
Rensselaer, announced that the association had de-
cded 70 ask FOR no moro public money for truant
schools as they proposed 10 raise the $50 expense
per month n ways that would not put the school
under municipal control
The subject under discussion FOR the afternoon
~. The Publi, and the Public Schools" and the
speaker Mrs Alice Freeman Palmer former presi-
den, o, wellesley College and dean Of the women S
6srartmen. % the University % Chicago.
In be~ earnes. vav Mrs Palmer plunged at once
tho ne suhicc. 81 dear 20 her We meet to-day
w anxious hearts" she sad. "bu; old
ruh', school rrl and public school teacher. before
alternating college work. feel that mus; take
co,race You stand hero today at n meeting OF
The ways and az the country IS looking on. II Is
? great chance that The people Of New-York have
in these next four years and there are a few
things We must apply ourselves 10 directly. First.
co. Better government in the schools and manage
men. ,o- our N,;le children: second, for better
Grade 0, teachers and third. better conditions un-
de- which the work must he done The question
q. the asy IS. What shall We do to give Increased
capacity and advantages 70 our children?
Il come from little State" continued Mrs
Palmer The State Of Massachusetts. but in 1t there
are 1900 teachers. and only 1000 men. leaving
the other y no women and this is growing TO be
more end more the condition everywhere.
The snail salaries paid those teachers make nee
essary small and narrow training and consequent
,nexperence o. ire sixteen million children in pub
lie school life hu; few get far the high school,
and me pl,ifgl loss and waste o. the first ten years
O. childhood through Intellectual training. through
,he infamous system % promotions, which compels
4 teacher % IL her work the middle third OF a
class. keeping back the brighter and dragging along
the poor unhappy. stupid other third. and through
INSTRUCTED energies. is rreparabe."
"OIr friends the Catholics" continued Mrs.
Palmer, ARE right in saying We may do what we
wiz wiki ne children Il they train them them
selves during the first eight or ten Impressions Die
Referring to the segregation OF the masses In the
large cities. Mrs Palmer declared that the work of
the next hundred years mus be done IN the large
cities and the great city schools and the question OF
the Gay is, How shall We separate the government
In Boston fve Of the large societies OF women are
bending their energies 10 secure through the Legs
edlcation where responsibility can be fixed. In a
large committee political intrigue. suo-committees
and abuses grow apace ana no one Is IesP9hsIn5e
II closing Mrs Palmer PAID oeauitnl t5aDi
she said. a. the Germans treat their army Iney
can't pa tAea very much b., iheg give rev mem ZEN
~ xa g r9v TEN in love- Let US Work for no6ier
wavs o, Appointment for teachers Lex us see that
sy .2ys aa yfa5d b t95 dfsi b and and
syrqatnetic conditions for teaching. and when these
con6 lions prevail we snail De quite WliIlre that
our ou'n girls. cultured and enthusiastic. may go
from their college fe 10 take their love ana sym.
pa,hy and broad training TO the little children OF
4. the close OF the meeting Mrs. Hewitt, the
president OF the association. announced that though
The membership Of the association was hmltea 70
women the audiences were not, and men were al,
ways welcome The association was always gao
20 receive new members. the only REQUISITE oeIns
the snple matter OF the presentation OF the name:
ei,her through some member or by the individual
he-seN who desired 10 join. ,..
Al invitation 10 tea from ne House Connit we
o: the association afforded chance over ne tea
cups FOR social interchange OF ideas and opinions
ana WIS enjoyed by all. At the meeting next week
Dr. Maxwell. superintendent OF the Brooklyn
schools, vii speak on English