Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-03-30
County Teaehara AssocIatIon.

with County Superintendent Eldridge pre-
siding. The session was called to order a
10 o'clock in the morning Rev J N /
Childrey, pastor of the First Baptist chur h
of his city, made the opening address OF
I" Education, An Element o NafI0na
i Powern His remarks were greeted wit
applause by the large BODY of teachers HI
said, among other things Ia every
nation vet founded the founders have en-
4 deavored to establish it by force and tc
secure 1t BY force. The magnetism Of
! force is great, but force being false must
eventually fail and fall What shall take
the place of force as the one element oil
national security
1.-THE national bond of nuity and the
national guarantee of security are the
education of the people. The history Of
The country has ehauged-is ever changing
Ii is no longer simply narrative of deeds
of force. The history of this country is
largely the history of the schools. Ednca-
tion is the instrument of national power
The hand and heart of the teacher hold The
latent strength of the nation.
while education is more and more
becoming factor in the nations history
and an element of the nations unity and
security, and, while power and idea have
destroyed and are destroying force, let as
not ,delude ourselves with the belief that
we have no foes to face. Education is the
grand corrective force The quarantine OF
immigration will not obtain the end
desired Sumptuary legislation will not
accomplish the result. Any restrictive
legislation is, at the most, but confession
of weakness; at best, support of weak
ness is a development of strength II
removes crushing competition So long as
man lives on low plane, be will know
nothing higher; so long as man works
like machine, he will act like machine;
so long as man labors like beast, so long
will be live like a beast The aim to be
sought is not in a change of circumstances,
but in change of soul not in a reforms-
ton OF the saloon, but reformat on of the
man. This is the aim and Office of educa-
ton Education takes man out of the low
plane of mechanism, slavery and bestiality
by revealing unto him that there is a
personality, an individuality, humanity,
divinity. II is the aim of education and
the Office of the educator to train faculties
to give confidence 10 self, to paint an ideal
for sells striving in other words to stamp
the mind as life ideal of soul experience.
II is for you, teachers, 10 make men and
women, and men and women will make
the nation"
Superintendent Eldridge made a brief
address to the teache s, pointing ont to
them the urgent necessity for teaching the
children honesty Of purpose ard truth.
The question of discipline in the school
room occ 4sioned some rigorous discussion,
but the opinion prevailed that the problem
of discipline was solved when the teachers
succeeded 10 getting the pupils interested
in school work. Some of the teachers
wanted to know what was o be done with
pupils who would not interest themselves
in their studies. Superintendent Eldridge
replied that it was the duty of the teacher
TO interest the scholar If You can find
time to eliminate certain work y said he.
g you can also find time to do little more
work.
The morning session closed with an
address by DR.. Kemp, President of the
Normal School at East Siroudsburg. Pa
His theme was "The Pedagogy of Socrates
He set forth the Socrates Principle by
illustrations from conversations held by
Socrates with his enemies and his pupils
The afternoon session convened at As
with Superintendent Eldridge in the chair.
DR.. Kemp again addressed the association !;
this time on The Pedagogy of Jesus A
s Dopsis Of his address is as follows
Nearly all of the students of Pedagogy
have passed by the principles of that art,
as these are revealed in the teaching of
Jesus, yet ne was the greatest teacher.
his teaching the highest art. He read and
explained the beatitudes and declared that
the ideal these set forth could not be
realized by an extreme application of these
to conduct they were the fruit only of
life within self. Christ put into practice
nearly ali of the fundamental principles of
scientific teaching.
1. He demanded implicit confidence in
himself as man unquestioning faith in
his teaching IS true.
2. He had a supreme confidence In the
possibilities of the soul of every disciple
that be attempted to instruct. He had
faith in tbs human when touch By the
divine
3. He had supreme faith in the necessity
and importance Of the message which he
had to deliver He was ready to prove its
importance by his own life and death.
4. He was most skilful ia fitting truth
forcefully to his hearers SO as to disarm
opposition and to awaken favorable atten-
ton. He was a master of the art of
arousing "expetant attention"
5. He lived bis teaching. Word and
act were welded. There was perfect
harmony between deed and duty.
The application of these principles to
intellectual teaching was closely and
forcefully made. The word describing the
address as whole is, 6 Magnificent.
At three o'clock the best program of the
year was concluded, and the largest session
adjourned.