Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1899-09-26
EXTRACT FROM THE REPORT
VI Committee On Resolutions Of National
Educational Association.

VI Committee On Resolutions OF National
educational Association.
The National Educational association
assembled In its thirty.eighth annual
convention. and representing In the
largest sense the teachers OF the United
States, makes the following
DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES:
We reafirm our belief that the course
Of education, despite difficulties, doubts
aud discouragements, Is steadily upward
md onward. The year when has
assed has been one OF genuine progress.
sound educational deal are more nfniy
Established, the benefits Of school aud
college education are more widely
Infused, the work OF teaching Is more
Intelligent and successful, the teacners
themselves constantly grow more earn
rat and more studiOus. The one dArk
Gage in the history Of the year Is that
which records interference with the
work OF public education INT attacks,
successful and unsuccessful, made upon
Il by political traders aud spoil seekers.
We appeal ~ the public and TO the press
10 resist, W resent aud 10 punish these
attacks, and We pledge our best efforts 10
tlt hb5Oluktis uOu hOiittNaA ohh hoh
sectarian conduct Of the work entrusted
10 US.
We record with gratitude our sense of
obligation 10 those noble men nj
women VINO have held out a generous
hand to education north. south. east aud
| west, aud who, by their gifts aud eli
dowments, have added so much 10 the
strengthening and upbuilding OF the
| various ~ pes Vt educational institutions.
| general anu special, elementary aud
higher, throughout the land The In
fusnce Of their example Is wide spread,
aud the effectiveness VI their gifts IL in-
c%alculable.
We emphasiz5 once more the function
u the school, as a community center, TO
draw TO itself the children II the
parents for gatherings which reds t the
life OF the people IA which give II In
spiration. Particularly Ia close associa-
ton with the library, the school should
make itself felt Ia shaping the thought
Of the people in ways and by methods
which lie outside OF the scope OF formal
instruction.
We support cordially every effort TO
elevate the profession OF teaching by rails
| ing the standards for entrance to II, by
| promoting educational scholarship, and
| ny providing for stability OF tenure and
| for adequate compensation. We are pre-.
| pared to acce I the complimentary prin-
| ciple. that inefficient and incom petent
| teachers must yield to the professional
Jude meat which asks their retirement
| from the school; and we deplore any and
| every attempt, organized or otherwise, to
| protect such teachers In their posts by
influence, whether personal or political.
We wish by every legitimate means TO
aid the invaluable work OF the bureau OF
| education. and we ask that II be given
such support by congress IA will enable
1t TO perform, with fullest efficiency, the
tasks entrusted to IL. We recognize, per-
| hsps more fully than do others, the value
| OF the statistics OF education collected In
| the census OF 1890. and we earnestly urge
| upon the director OF the forthcoming
census the d%esiraDility OF carrying on
anew the lines OF inquiry then pursued,
together with such additions and improve
msnts as experience has shown TO be
needed,
This association has long insisted and
ccn,inuss to insist upon the full recogni'
titn Of all educational agencies ~ es
sentially undertakings In the public in
terest, whether they are supported by
lpititU thA NV W W Wv bi'oh's hhi
alike are and should be In hesrtiest co
operation, and any attempt to array ONT
institution, or n form OF educational
Effort against another. il little short OF
treason TO the nations highest interests.
The past year has brought new ant
grove responsibilities TO our common
country and has opened before II new anC
dificul, opportunities. With q courso,
horn OF high hope and Of confidence IL
democracy. the nations schools an
schoolmasters will their full
share OF the burden 30 suddenly i'm
posed upon our citizenship, and will con
tribute by every means in their power 4
= the wise, patriotic and democratic solu
ton OF the problems which confront u
a. a people.
NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER,
OF New York. Chairman.
NEWTON c. ~DoUGHERTY,
= or Illinois.
! ROBERT h FULTON,
OF Mississippi.
p JOSEPH SWAIN.
Il OF Indiana.
- JOHN g.. LOCKE.
or Maine.
o WILLIAM V. WILSON,
OF Washington.
". II BARTHOLOMEW,
or Kentucky
Committee on R%aaolutiona,