The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-12-28
STATE TEACHERS
Second Day Of Association
Convention at No. !
School Most In
teresting.
Mr.. M'ANDREW'S ADDRESS
Fearless and Full Of Wit
Other Speakers.

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when the New Jersey State Teachers
Convention was in progress, the auditor
ium in School No. / was well filled and
much interest was manifested in all that
was done. Miss Allen was there and her
sympathetic friends gathered round her in
great numbers. Nearly all Hudson county
sat together. with Miss Allen in its midst,
as though to protect her from her unjust
accusers.
After addresses of welcome by Mayor
Hoos n Governor Voorhees,; the iatter
per letter, Miss Lucy Wheelock was m
troduced. She is a Bostonian and spoke
on the Beginnings of Literature In the
Bostonian way. with all the Bostonian ac-
cents. She spoke of the very early train
ing of the child, "the nonsense period, as
she expressed it. Every mother owes II
to her child she said, that that child
should understand and enjoy the nursery
rhymes before he enters the kindergarten
period. That which fits a child at one
period does not fit it at another
She spoke in the highest terms Of
Mother Goose as an educator for the
kindergarten period. which, she said,
came after the nonsense period, after the
child had outgrown its Mother Goose, but
must have its story nevertheless. h laid
great stress upon teaching children rhyme,
aging that there was perhaps no story
more interesting to children than THE
Night Before Christmas and thence pro-
ceded to show how a child should be
gradually led to read the books suited to
its age as it grew from year to year.
Professor Edward Howard Griggs was
- - ---ntro~ III har often addressed
a Jersey City audience before and need
ed but little Introduction. The professor
dwelt upon the Importance of the edu-
Gated citizen in comparison to the I'M
educated. He said the public school sys-
TEN afforded the best opportunities for
teaching good citizenship, and for this he
said a special training was necessary, but
it must be the ideals of good citizenship
that were taught. He dwelt upon the
fact that men of brains used them for
themselves more than for others, and
compared the democracy of today with
that Of centuries ago, when men lived
that someone else might live.
ut takes more brain power to carry on
the Pennsylvania Railroad than It does
to carry on the Government of Holland
and Belgium" said he.
1--WE have a certain contempt for the
law Of the land" continued the speaker
1--WE must awake TO American citizen
ship. We must demand this higher
education for citizenship"
He then went on to show how the
citizen should be trained always with the
ideal in view. saying the first essential
lay in patriotism. mo the patriotism
which lies in Fourth of July speeches,
not a mere boisterous belief, but a
patriotism just as ready to lament over
crime as it is to rejoice over victory.
The second essential, he said, was
education in that larger view and more
human view, where a nation does not live
for itself. Where all 1t does must affect
other nations. The third essential was
Hthe training of the sober, quiet and
balanced judgment that the citizen might
be able to choose men who could govern
ever if he could not do it himself.
THE material of education" said Pro-
fesors Griggs, has accumulated so that it
has doubled in a hundred years. Any ap-
paratus we cannot use becomes a dead
weight upon us. The political problems of
today are more difficult than those Of
yesterday. We have not yet learned to
master the equipment of our cities. To OBJ
tain this there is no specific scheme. 1t
is the daily work of the teacher.
AT the close OF the session several COM
mdttee meetings were held and a commute
on nominations. consisting of a man and
woman from each district was chosen as
follows
First-John ". GlassfelI. e. E. Jaquett.
FOURTH. D. Craig, Eta Sering.
Fifth-Mr. Chaffe, Mrs. Bennett.
Sixth-Mr. butcher, Mary Geraghty.
more.
Eighth-B. Holmes. Jennie M. Merrill.
A committee on amending the constitu-
ton, as per resolution passed in the
regular session was also appointed as fol-
lows. one person to represent each dis
trict.=
First-A. A. Yocum.
second-Dr. James M. Green.
Third-W. A. Muller.
FOURTH. H. Hulshart.
Fifth-W. Rabenort.
Sixth-Mr. Schultz.
Seventh-Miss e. Allen.
Eighth-H. E.. Harris
EVENING.
Again at 7:45 the teachers assembled In
due order in the auditorium, n the
evening proved a most interesting session.
The speaker was Mr.. William McAndrew
of Brooklyn. He was plain spoken, fear
less and witty in his address on Wages"
not hesitating to ridicule the laws re-
garding a teachers pay, nor 20 set forth
what should be done. Every few moments
he had to pause, drowned in applause,
and must needs acknowledge an encore
/ when all was over.