The San Francisco call., 1899-04-14
Professor CubberIy Talks on
Educational Problems.
State Superintendent Kirk Warns Peda-
gOgues to Keep Up With the Times.
institute Closes To-Day.

positions here and so discouraging others
from seeking the places you occupy"
Superintendent Kirk expressed surprise
at the action of the Legislature in re-
fuslng to pass an appropriation for the
county boards of education. He declared
the services of these boards could not
well be dispensed with, but yet the nor
nal schools must be trained for the
proper training of teachers He re-
marked that certain County Superintend-
ents had gone TO Sacramento to lobby for
tions for teachers certificates, their ex-
cuse being that the training and normal
schools were not competent TO turn out
the teachers that are necessary.
LAS we have four normal schools and
a pedagogical department in the Univer-
slty of California said the speaker, Il
teachers examinations. There is no
longer any great demand for new teach
ers. There are more than a thousand
competent teachers in the State at the
present time without schools.
The teachers interest should be mani
tested to greater extent in public affairs
and In the attempt to purify politics. Who
can fail to admire President Jordan and
Professor Moses for the interest they take
IN public affairs? While we may not fully
agree with President Jordan in his views
touching the Philippines, yet we cannot
but admire his bold stand in stepping
out OF the sphere of the scholar to dis
cuss these affairs of statecraft and poll
tcs. am not alarmed at the attitude of
the masses toward educational work yet
readJustment on some lines may be neces-
SarY. We cannot progress on the educa-
tiOnal road unless the people are following
us We must educate the masses to the
standpoint of the educational system and
not let our ideals drop back to the ideals
of the masses"
After a recess of five minutes and more
music by the quartet Professor Tadd
delivered an interesting lecture along the
same lines as his first lecture in the Girls
High School on Wednesday evening Yes
{eraay, however, he had six pupils at the
tPiiackboard TO aid him in demonstrating
Tadd holds that the object of all educa-
uon IS the development of that character
istlc which disposes to right action; that
experience, not memory, is the mother of
iaeaS and that the universal process of
intelligence is the assimilation of con-
crete material furnished by experience.
w nat we want is that action be spon-
taneous and natural, and to obtain this
we have to form during the nascent pc
riod OF childhood habits that will become
automatic, said the professor. 1T seems
10 me that this is more important than
reading, writing and arithmetic. We
SHOULD give more time TO something that
Will expand and exalt the mind We must
nour1sh the mind by getting ideas I am
making plea for a little more time to
be given to facts and forces, rather than
and definitions"
The afternoon was devoted to section
work, the following programme being
carried out:
Celine r. Pechin; discussion. Miss Z. F Bart
lett Mrs. +. NJ. North Miss E NJ Cannon
Miss A M Castiehun, Miss A. B. Campbell.
Primary Number Work, Superintendent 7.
W. McClymonds Oakland; discussion Frank
Morton, Miss A. G. Regan, Miss Jennie Smith.
Section 2. Correlation of Reading. Litera-
ture and Composition" Harr Wagner; discus
sion, Miss Jean Parker Miss Eliza D. Keith
position Work" Miss Efhe E. Smith: discus
sion, Miss NJ A. sherer Miss r. a. Thompson.
avA r1sv.rr
cushion M5s E Bartet b Miss Beskeey s j Jones' a
Miss II. N. Fairchild
berly; discussion, Miss II. Phillips. Miss X
Hodgkinson, Miss a Hirstel Miss Ida Kervan
Miss K. B. Childs, Miss T. NJ Franklin.
Section 4. Science Materiais-How to Pre-
sent It." Professor o. P. Jenkins; discussion
Parker. Miss e NJ Graham United States
History-CiviI Government" Professor Ellwood
P. Cubberly; discussion, T. H. Mccarthy, W.
D. Kingsbury
in Secondary Schools" Professor A C. Duni-
way; discussion. F. H. Clark c. II. Murphy
Mrs NJ Prag. Laboratory Methods in
sion, A. T. Winn P. T. Tompkins, A. L. Jor-
dan G. o. Mitchell
The institute will close its sessions this
afternoon. The programme for to-day is
Music. Ninth Grades Crocker Grammar School
Under the direction of Miss Elizabeth Wade.
Love and Law ................D DIR. T p. Bailey
Reading. E. F. Bartlett
Solo....................... Miss Mile Flynn
"A Few Thoughts on the Making Of School
Law .:..........,...... Henry Meade Bland
Chairman of Committee on Legislation of
California Teachers Association.
Social Aspect in Education" DR.. E. E Brown
AFTERNOON.
Music. Philomel Quartet
Presentation of National Educational Asso-
citation Elmer T. brown
State Director, National Educational Asso-
citation.
Duet Mrs. c. W. Mark Mrs. Emile Parent
Value Of Higher Education" .................
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. David Starr Jordan
Music .Philomel Quartet
Report Of Committee on Resolutions. 1919.
......................C Colonel c. H. Murphy