The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-08
EDUCATIONAL
EXPANSION.
Elmer e. Brown of the CalifOr-
mia University Says
1t Goes Hand In Hand With PO-
litical-Industrial Progress.
NATIONAL COUNCIL
Of the National Educational
Association Meets.
Northwest is Pulling Hard For
the Next Convention.
NATIONAL COUNCIL

Detroit. July "a meeting of the Ma
tional Council of Education in Y. NJ. c.
A hall this afternoon, and the first ses-
sion of the Department of Indian Ed
ucation in Central NJ z. church opened
the fortieth annual convention of the
National Educational association. The
first session of the general body will
not be held until tomorrow afternoon.
The national council of education is
coordinate body of the National assoc
iatfon, being composed of a limited
number of the foremost educators who
throughout the council lead the thought
of the general association. The paper of
the morning before the council was read
by William T. Harris, national commits
sioner of education, on Isolation in the
School; How It flinders and Helps"
Mr.. Harris advocacy of isolation pre-
cipitated lengthy discussion from the
floor. Among the other speakers on the
subject were J. w. Cook of DeKa1b, Ill;
Louis Soldan of St. Louis and J. M
Greenwood of Kansas City, who de-
clared that q large percentage of the
good and must be eliminated when the
child enters school,
At the afternoon session Elmer E.
Brown of the University of California
read a rarer. on Educational PROGRESS
During the Past Year" He said:
1.-The characteristic word of progress
during the past year has been expan-
sion. Educational expansion has been
the accompaniment of political and in
dustrial expansion.
'sThe great accumulators of wealth
have been giving largely to educational
institutions
s.These great benefactions have raised
anew the question of liberty OF teach
ing 1t is commonly believed that in the
Ross case at Stanford university Such
liberty of teaching was abridged. But
it should be remembered in all such
cases that university, like other in
stitutions must take account of the CO.
operative usefulness of its members
TT is doubtful whether there is any
general or serious danger threatening
real and reasonable academic freedom
The discussion OF scientific temperance
instruction has brought forward the
question Of freedom of teaching in an
other form. Universities are concern
ing themselves increasingly with the
scientific content of instructions in the
lower schools, and with the preparation
of teachers for those schools.
New educational movements in the
south are closely bound up with politi-
cal and industrial changes. The negro
is making his own contribution to the
solution of the problem, and the Tuske-
gee school has been one of the centers
of educational interest during the year
THE organization of American edu-
cational systems in Porto Rico and the
Philippine Islands is now fairly begun.
The movement of American teachers
toward those islands is one OF the best
forms of educational expansion"
The session Of the Indian department
was given up entirely to addresses of
welcome and responses
A strong effort will be made by
members from the extreme northwest
ern part of the country to secure the
next convention and already Portland,
Ore, and Seattle, Wn-, are being BOOM
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600 members have arrived in the city
already.