The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-14
CONVENTION is over.
THE EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION
HAS ADJOURNED.
THE LAST SESSIONS PAPERS.
G. II. GLENN OF GEORGIA WAS
AMONG THE SPEAKERS.


Mark of Good Teacher the De-
veIopment of the Worst, Not the
Best, Pupiis-Report of the Com
mittee Resolutions Was for
Educational improvements.
Charleston. S. c., July 13-The National
Educational Association closed it's con-
vention here tonight. During the day
two ions CT the general convention
were held. at which the following papers
wee read:
THE Influence of Poetry in Education
From the Basis cf Aesthetics" William
NJ. Birdshir president Iowa State Agri-
cultural College.
The Value of English Literature in
Ethical Training Reuben Post Halleck,
Louisville, KY
EdueaticEal Va'ues in Literature" Dr.
Martin G. Brumbaugh, University of
Pennsylvania, recently chosen commits
sioner of education for Porto Rico
What Manner of Child Shall This Be-"
Hon G. r. Glenn. state superintendent
of public instruction for Georgia Prof
Glenn said, in part:
IF l were to ask what is to be account
ed the great discovery of tbs century,
would pas by all the splendid achieve
ments that men have wrought in wood
and stone and iron and brass / would
nol go TO the volume that catalogues the
printing press, the loom the steam en-
gine the steamship, the occan able, the
| telegraph, wireless telt graphy, the tele-
phone, the phonograph. | would not go
among the stars and point 10 either one
| of the planets that have been added to
our lar system. l would not call for the
| Rhoentgen ray that promises to revolu-
tionize the study of the human brain as
well as the human body. l would pass
over all the labor-saving machines and
devices by which the work of the world
has been marvelously mul iplied. Above
and beyond all these, the index finger of
the worlds progress, in the march of
time. would pcint unerring.y to the little
child as The one great discovery Of the
century now speeding to its close.
IF we pause for a nom, mt to contrast
| the condition of The child. even one hum
| Gred years ago, with The condition OF the
child that is born to-day, we marvel at
what God has wrought within a hundred
years. At the beginning CT this century
learning belonged to limited oligarchy.
Education was the privilege of the few,
and ignorance the soGden heritage of the
hehighted masses. With the beginning OF
the c injury few only Of the worlds tenn
| iGg millions could Rad ana fewer still
did the thinking for the great unwash-
j ed" With the beginning of the twentieth
century the publ sch5ol is gong into
every hamlet among the civilized races OF
the globe. and ils b neficent light is illum-
mating the darkest recesses Of the
humblest home Education is no
longer the exclusive privilege of an
auteefatie minority It is to-day the di-
vine right of an all-powerful democratic
| majority.
If at the beginning of the century, we
had alienation and separation, great inn
| passable gulf between the rich and the
poor, to-day we have union, strength and
life, and millions of happy children of ridh
and poor like marching under a banner on
which is inscribed Freedom of oppor-
tunity for all What this freedom of op-
portunity means 10 every American child.
no man can estimate What the American
| child of The future is to be. no man can
now prophesy The wide distribution of
| human knowledge has brought him in
touch with all mankind He Is a neigh.
| bor to every possible achievement and his
| splendid environments makes him poten-
| tial factor for accomplishing every human
| good.
Already Americans have discovered
| that the old system of education will not
| NJ his case. We have begun to shift and
readjust the paths that lead to and from
/
| to fit the boy TO a system. We are now
trying to adjust a system to the boy. The
American boy is praying the prayer of the
| Psalmist he never prayed that prayer
| before Set thou my feet in large room
| We American teachers are trying to obey
the command of the Great Teacher, when
| he said al the grave of Lazarus, who
! came up, bound hand and foot in his
| grave clothes, Loose him and let him go
| If we might reverently change this com
| mand to tit our day and time, the change
would be, Loose him and let him grow
| The demand of the hour is that we shall
take away. not only the grave clothes,
| but all deadly cerements from the minds
and bodies of our children.
Even teaching power in the future
must be defined in new terms. Here,
again, we must approach more nearly
10 the mind and spirit of the Great
Master Teacher of the world Time was
when the power of the teacher was meas
ured by what he could do with a bright
boy or a bright girl. From the beginning
of this new century the power of the
teacher will be measured by what he is
able 10 do with the dull boy, the defective
child. More than ever before in the his
tory Of this world, the real test of teach
ing power will be measured, not by what
can be done with the best, but by what
can be done with the worst boy in the
school. The Great Teacher who began our
civilization came into this world 20 seek
out and to save that which was lost.
THE new century will demand that the
stress of all energy and the elimination
OF all intelligence shall be applied 20 re-
deemng what has been going to waste.
We shall have new psychology as we'll
as a new education, and the new psy-
choogy will be the psychology of the
prodlgal son and the lost sheep. The great
rejolcings in American life will be when
we have so mastered our problems of
child study and so perfected our lines of
school growth that our American system
OF education will touch and develop and
control every American boy. We shall
come to our place Of rejoicing when we
have saved every one of these American
children and made every one of them a
contributor to the wealth. to the fntelli-
gence and TO the power of this great DEM
ocratic government of ours.
Men now demand that those who build
their machines shall build machine that
shall do twice the work with an expendi-
ture Of half the fuel that machine did
even ten years ago. A few afternoons
since was waiting for my train to leave
the station from the Capital City OF the
state. l saw a great company OF people
gathered about an object at the end Of
the station. In answer to an inquiry as
10 the cause OF the gathering OF this great