The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-01-04
THE FUTURE SCHOOL
County Superintendent VIM. Griffith
Speaks Before the Teachers
Association.
NO POLITICS IN EDUCATION

superintendent Says That in Twenty Five
Years the Schools and Politics VIII Be
Entirely Separate Many New and Ad-
vanced Ideas Will Bring the Schools to |
standard of Excellence Known m No
Other Country
Through the Kindness of one of the |
officers of the state teachers associa-
ton we are permitted to print the
splendid toast delivered by County
superintendent William Griffith at the
recent meeting of the State Teachers
Association. Mr.. Griffith spoke as
follows:
''You ask me for my vision of the
school world at the time when the new
century shall claim FIVE and twenty
years from the hand of eternity.
With an eye of faith and heart of
hope, born of love for our public
schools, l see in the roseate morn of
the new century, the golden dawning
of better day.
In that happier time the profession,
the press, the pulpit and the public
demand of the Observation-Disclosures he
be person of great heart and sound
brain and that he be a happy com bina-
/ ton of culture and common sense.
The state will demand men and women
who know that in education there is
a trinity of the head, the hand, and
the heart, and that the greatest of
these three is the heart.
She will demand that he know more
pedagogy than politics. He must be a
person alive and responsive to the
changes in all fields of human effort.
He must know that ali that is true is
not new and ali that is new is not
true.
The State will have Superintendents
who know that the schools must be
fitted to the child and not the child to
the school.
The state will demand that his morn
ing time, his evening time and all his
time must be dedicated to his work
His life must be an inspiration and he
must feel that the guidance of a grow
ing mind is greater than the governing
of a world.
She will demand that his heart burn
within him as he reads his country's
story.
The school house flag will refuse to
float over a superintendent whose
pulses do not thrill with the rich, red
blood of true Americanism.
He must be a knight-templar in the
ranks which fight against ignorance.
And like any good soldier he must ever
show unfinching loyalty to his chief
And now what will the state give in
return for all these things?
She will say to the Superintendent:
Il have centralized my work. Go now
to yonder high school. There you will
find all the children of the town"
Stay a week and then go the next.
You will have time enough to inspect
the work of seventy teachers.
Be fearless in doing your duties
Your term will be four years at least
I'll see that your salary is as much,
at least, as the high school ianitor's.
Put the back numbers, the Nancy
James and Jonathan Jays, on the re-
tired list. They are the dead limbs of
the tree. Fear not because their faith
ers and uncles have political pull,
since / have so managed matters that
my faithful servants who chill with
winters storm and melt with summers
sun shall no longer be turned down for
doing their plain duty.
Say you that all this is an iridescent
dream? Read of what our mother
state has done: There is our great
university, yonder are our normal
schools and our high schools: the very
winds and waters sing of growth; and
remember that there is emb1azoned on
her shield in letters of living light the
proud nlotto:-Forward. :"
Charles Loesher, held to await the