The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-12
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black man training coupled with the high
est intelligence, in agriculture the trades,
the domestic arts as a foundation for citi-
zenship These will constitute the ground
work for higher and more important oc-
equations as the world judges.
But We, as black people and you as
white people, should remember, that mere
material visible possess ions, however inn
portant, will not alone solve our problem,
and that education of both races will be
failure unless we keep constantly before
US the fact, that the final aim of all edu-
cation, whether industrial or academic, is
to produce goodness of heart, honesty of
purpose and that generosity of soul which
will make us seek the elevation and free
dom of all men regardless of class or race.
The South will prosper in proportion as
with development in agriculture, in mines,
domestic arts and manufacturing, there
goes that education which brings respect
for law, broadens the heart sweetens
the nature and makes US feel that we are
our brothers keeper" whether that
brother was born in England. Italy, Africa
or the Islands of the Seas"
Others Were Heard.
President Joseph Swain, University of
Indiana spoke on THE State University"
The committee on nom. nations which was
announced by President Corson at the
morning session. will meet tomorrow at
noon to make the nominations of officers
for the ensuing year Their report will be
submitted to the convention Friday.
Nearly all of the departments held
meetings during the afternoon. The kim
dergarten educators held their first ses-
sion in Hibernian Hall. After the well
coming addresses, papers were read by
Mrs. Clarence E. Meleney of New York;
Philander p. Claxton of the State Nor
81 lNrI11.
Harriet Mel, director of the Hearst Kin
dergarten, Washington.
The department of secondary education
heard paper on the extent the pupil in
the high school should be allowed to
choose his studies, by William j. s. Bry-
an, principal of the High School, ST.
Louis.
oliver S. Westcott, principal of the
North Division High School. Chicago,
read a paper on teaching pupils the cor
rect use of the English language. The
papers were followed by discussions in
which a number of educators partici-
pated.
There was good attendance at the ses-
sion of the higher education department
and several interesting papers were read
The first speaker was President Charles
F. Thwing, Western Reserve University
Cleveland. His topic was THE Satisfac-
Swain on State Aid.
President Joseph Swain Indiana Uni
versity, read a paper on State Aid to
Higher Education He said, in part:
"These are essential not only to the
prosperity but even to the existence of
free state.
THE ultimate control of and the re-
sponsbility for education must rest with
the state.
''It is the function of the state 10 pro-
vide educational opportunities limited only
by the ability of its citizens 10 embrace
these opportunities Has the skilled ply
stefan most benefited himself or the COM
munity? Has the teacher most benefited
himself or his pupils? Graduates of uni
versities could not, if they would APP
propriate TO themselves the fruits of their
university training. The university is
sometimes opposed on the ground that 1t
is unjust to tax men of modest means to
support higher instruction, none but
the wealthy can go to college. Statistics
do not support such view, as more than
half of the students in many of our state
institutions are sons and daughters Of
farmers and mechanics. The state insti-
tuition furnishes a common meeting
ground where the young men and young
women of the state are free from any in
huence except those accepted by the state
the rising young men and wo-
men of the whole state may
know one another and value one another
rightly Can We not depend on wealthy
men wholly to furnish higher education?
This would be UNI American. Wealthy men
might grade our roads, build our court
houses, conduct our courts, do
anything for the public good,
if the state should neglect these matters.
or turn them over to private hands. But
this would not release the people from
their duty in the matter. The people
have safety only in independence. The
state can secure unsectarian instruction,
bipartisan institutions only by providing
these itself. This does not in the least
disparage the existence of private and
Unconventional institutions, but Indicates
that these alone are not sufficient.
THE great problem OF our day. scien-
fife, historical, political and industrial,
can best be settled by those who have spe-
cial training for their work We are liv-
ing in an age when there is a demand for
re-examina ton of all things. We are not
satisfied simply because belief or GUS
tom had the sanction OF our fathers
we are not willing to say that
anything is true or that any method Is the
best method until all the facts available
are examined by those who know how to
estimate the value of data. The modern
university is an institution where all sub
jects are considered of equal value and
the great ambition of the teacher OF each
subject Is first to gain complete mastery
OF his subject, and then 10 assist his stu
dent to such mastery; and in the second
place TO contribute something to the sum
total of human knowledge in his own line
Of work The university does not do It's
duty to the state II IL does not in some de-
gree at least widen the field OF human
knowledge. 1t is chiefly through the dis
coveres and contributions of original
workers that those facts and principles
are discovered through which the state
seeks more advanced stage of clviliza-
ton aud culture"
Other Speeches and Papers.