The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-11
WITH The TEACHERS
"oHfA OF NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL
ASSOCIATION CONVENTION
AT DETROIT
HUGE THRoNG IS PRESENT
DIFFICULTY In Providing Accommoda-
lions for the Many in Attend
ance at the Various
Meetings

DEIROlI, Mich, July 10.-"Element-
airy Education" was the general topic dis
cussed under various heads by the Ma
tional educational association this morn
ing There We're more than $500 teachers
IN Light Guard armory when Bishop
Foley, of Detroit, arose to open the SEES
sion with prayer. President Green then
introduced F. Louis Sedan, superintend-
ent OF city schools, st. Louis, as the
first speaker. His paper was on What
Is a Fad?"
Despite the severe heat the audience
kept increasing, When J. H. Van Sickle
of Baltimore, arose to deliver his paper
on rs the Curriculum Overcrowded?"
chairs were at a premium.
Mr.. Charles Richards, of New York
was the next speaker
Inc discussion on the papers was
opened by William K Fowler, of Lin
coin, Neb.
William M. Davidson, superintendent
OF city schools of Topeka, Kan, was the
last speaker of the morning, discussing
the paper on rs the Curriculum Over
crowded.
At the morning session of the Indian
educational department Prof c. M
woodward, of Washington university, st.
Louis, read paper on What Shall Be
Taught in an Indian School?'
The matrons' branch of the department
held separate session at which the
studies peculiar to their part of the
school were discussed.
The following departments of the as
ISOLATION held meetings IN different parts
OF the city this afternoon: Music, art,
education, normal schools, physical edu-
cation, deaf, blind and feeble minded
school, manual training, secondary edu-
cation and child study and kindergar-
ten.
Before the latter department Miss
Charlotte M. Powe, of Columbia, S. c.,
read a paper.
Prof, M V. O'shea, of the University
of Wisconsin, who was to have read
paper on Work and Play in ADO
lescene" before this department was I'M
able to be present.
In the department of school admins
tration the feature was the address Of
Hon. H. L. JBonebrake, state commits
sioner of schools of Ohio, on THE Cen
tralization Of Rural Schools Mr.. Bone
brake strongly advocated Capitalization,
giving as his reasons:
That it would encourage high school
education and thus give the country chill
dren a better chance; that it would do
away with the isolation of farm life to
large extent and would insure better
teachers and teaching; that it would keep
large boys in school later in life and
would bring "a community feeling into
the country; that it would improve the
health and morals of the children, and
finally that it would in most cases be
an economy financially.
There was but one paper before the
department of secondary education, that
of Resem ]. Bishop, of Cincinnati, on
''The Function of the High School,
At the conclusion of the discussion of
the paper the department went into
round table discussions of secondary ed
vocational topics.
Papers on 1.-The Function of the State
University" by President r. Fl. Jesse, OF
the University of Missouri, and Rise
of Education in the Sixteenth Century,"
by ]. w. Perrin, of Cleveland, professor
in Western Reserve university, with the
discussion of them occupied the session
of the department Of higher education.
President Jesse said the function of the
state university was to be non-partisan,
but patriotic to the state; non-sectarian,
but religious; free as to tuition in all
departments, academic and professional.
and every inch a university.
at should also" he said, "be a but
tress of the national university, for ed
ucation will not be complete in this coun-
try until we have at Washington ma
tional university, with state institutions
as it's buttresses. Some day our educa-
ton will conform to our system of gov
eminent"
The paper of DR.. Francis F. Brandt.
of Philadelphia, on THE Relation of the
State to the Defective Child was the
feature of the department of education
for deaf, dumb and feeble minded. He
said:
1.-The state should take stronger meas
ures for the prevention of defective and
delinquent individuals. 1t needs to COM
bine with it's policy of protecting benevo-
lence a policy of progressive elimination
and humiliation. In the sterilization of
the sexes it has a remedy that is as
simple as vaccination"
The work of the Michigan schools for
the deaf and dumb was shown in some
interesting exercises by the pupils.
Dean James E. Russell of the teach
ers college, Columbia university, read
the paper of the afternoon before the
department of normal schools on THE
Training of Teachers for Secondary
Schools