The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-12-30
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION
Was the Subject Of Superintendent wooteu
Of Paris. :
IT SHOULD Be IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
officers Elected. Resolutions Aaept-
cd and Very successful Meet
ing Came to Close.


Educational association concluded Its la
bors today and adjourned to meet next
year a, place to be selected by the en-
ecutive committee. The next ssscmblage
will meet In either Richmond or Birming-
ham, both cities having made strong
convention The sessions just closed have
been remarkably we'll attended and many
interesting papers covering wide range
of thought. have been discussed by promi-
nent teachers and university men. Promi-
nent among these we're addresses by DR..
w. T. Harris, United States commissioner
of labor; DR.. ]. l.. NJ. Curry of the Pea
body fund; DR.. Junius Jordan, the retiring
president, and DR.. r. b. Fulton. chancel-
lor OF the University of Mississippi. These
addresses were ordered printed and will be
given wide distributions
Dr.. Harris, in speaking of the conven-
ton, said This has been a most success
full convention. 1t was one of the most
representative gatherings ! have ever at
tended. The papers were simply excellent,
better thar those usually read on such
occasions; they showed not only careful,
but thoughtful preparation, and DR. Cur
ry address was simply magnificent and
alone well worth the trip to Memphis.
The most important business at todays
session was the election of officers for the
ensuing year, as follows President. DIR.
r. B. Fulton, chancellor of the University
of Mississippi; vice president. DR.. Junius
Jordan of the University of Arkansas
secretary. P. P. Claxton, Greensboro, N.
C rn-Rlpctpd trea slIrar Inhn n Nprhv
Mobile, Ala, reelected.
The kindergarten department of the as
ISOLATION elected officers as follows: Pres
ident, Miss Patty Hill of Louisville KY;
vice president, Miss Willette Allen of At
lanta; secretary, Miss Mary Belts of Mem
phis.
The resolutions committee in its report
says:
THE interest shown in the work of
this association as indicated by the ad-
mirahle preparations made and the splen-
did welcome accorded in the city OF
Memphis, by the large number and repre-
sentative character of the body of teach
ers here assembled. by the quality and
spirit of the papers read and the ad-
dresses made, and by the determination
evinced to give to the Southern Educa-
ton association that broad reach and full
power which comes from perfected organ
izaticn and which shall enable it to meet
the increased responsibilities coming upon
it with the dawning of more active
and eXacting intellectual and industrial
life in the Southern States. is cause for
glad consolidation and encouragement
We earnestly invite our fellow teachers
in the Southern States and elsewhere to
unite with us in efforts to solve the
problems which vitality concern the pres
ent welfare and the future prosperity OF
this section of the Union, whose history
and social conditions give peculiar en-
phasls to its educational needs. We urge
those who are in positions of legislative
or executive authority TO give to educa-
ticnal questions that conspicuous interest
which their Importance deserves, and
those whom educational work dependent
for support to exercise that wise liberality
in its maintenance which the times i'm
peratively demand"
The session today was continuous At
the Court Street Cumberland Presbyterian
church pap5r was read by John W.
Abercrombie of Alabama, his subject be-
ing Education in the Old and the New
South"
j. H. kirkland of Nashville next read
an interesting paper and vas accorded
close attention
Miss Electra semmes Colston of the
Girls High school, Mobile, Ala. dis
cussed public School Education of Girls
w nat IL SnOulQ be.
Superintendent j. G. Wooten of Paris, |
Texas, delivered an address on Indus
trial Education in Public Schools"
MIR. Wooten said in part: A more i'm
portant question can not come before the
southern people in this generation. The !
conditions that confront us today demand |
that something more be done toward in
dustrlal training than our several State |
ana private institutions of technology, our
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possibly accomplish, although these
schools have done and are stlll doing
wonderful work. Manual training
schools must be placed nearer 10 the
homes OF our people. Many are too poo
TO meet the expense. however small, |
when must be incurred in sending boy |
OF sirl away from home. In many CASES
we IAN TO reach the very ones that ought |
to be reached. Yet We must be actuatcd |
by common sense in the establishment OF |
such schools and not by mere theory. In
9usttial training can not now be intro
uucen INTO the country schools. 1t is inn |
prdctlcable, but IL can be made success
iul in our cities and towns. This would |
pe III easy reach of a majority of our am
p,.'ous ana wide-awake boys and girls in
almost every county of every State
Inc professions are full and the time
mas come when we must prepare our hoys
ior srme other pursuit Education is no |
lohseF regarded as a mere ornament It
must accomplish something, and in order
70 40 SO new avenues of industry must he
opened Tor II. believe that every man
u possible, should have some trade. or at |
least Know something about some trade.
and ! am an advocate OF the doctrine that
~ should be taught him whilo younc.
oIlulate Is he who has some profess. on |
VI trade upon which to rely II failure han
pehs 10 oyertake him In some other husi.
ness. oVnei JUST
100 many of our boys enter upon the
stetnef duties of life without a due prep
a. a. anon ior them From some cause they
ssn INTO business too soon. There is
sIeat d,al OF boy labor in our Southern
utes. Men employ boys because they are
eneap, thus leading them away from
,snooi before they have received even a
s o education. II is a lamentable
. nv MAJ not more than 20 per cent reach
M, NY. elshth grade in our public schools.
nnhout education, without industrial
ena,hing save that OF the rudest kind. they
after year '"'a yeat
! believe that II. we place industrial
saS H,n,ne IN our city graded ami high
snoois we VIII not only benefit our bows
preparing them to learn some NJ the
ahs arts and sciences but we will he |
san 10 Keep them In school very much |
,,,,1S the fundamental principle tbat
na, public education is not only 10
nuke more Intelligent citizensbin hut
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