The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-26
ANNUAL CONVENTION OF
TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
CONTINUED from Page L.

Temporary respite from the regular
school duties, but as I have grown older
and come into closer connection with
teachers 1 believe you enjoy the heli-
day as we'll as the pupils. I know Of
nothing better to promote the interests
of your towns and cities than the re-
suits of a gathering of this sort
The subjects treated here are of great
interest to you and 10 all of Worcester
County and feel that inestimable good
will come from the discussion of today.
"A IT gives me great pleasure on behalf of
a the citizens of Worcester to welcome
you all to this meeting and to the city.
President Lewis named the following
committee on nominations: Super1n-
tendent Joseph G. Edgerley of Fitch
burg, Wallace E. Mason of Leominster,
Superintendent Judson l. Woods of
Gardner. Francis P. McKeon, principal
of Millbury Street school, and E. R.
Goodwin, principal Classical High
School.
Joseph Jackson, who has served as
treasurer for six years. declined re-
election. His annual report showed
that the association has balance of
$162.S4 to its credit.
President William Dewitt Hyde of
Bowdoin College spoke on 'The End
of Education in the Elementary
Schools" He spoke in part as follows:
"What is the end of education? Be-
fore we try to define it, let us see
whether we teachers have gained 1t
for ourselves. All teachers fall into
two classes; those who have not at
tanned the end of education, and those
who have. Let us see to which class
we belong. 1t isn't a question pri-
marily of how much we know, or
where we were trained, or whether we
have Herbartian methods, or adopt
F'roebePs principles, or follow the
Eliot program. 1t is more personal
and vital than many of these things.
do you let teaching drive you like
a slave? Do you assume a great
weight of responsibility for results;
like man riding a carriage who still
carries all his>5ags and heavy bundles
in his hands? Do you worry? Do you
take your work home with you; and
let it spill over into your hours which
should be given to rest and recreation?
Do YOU try to make your own Clothes
do your own mending, undertake con-
siderable homework, accept all sorts
of social invitations whether you feel
like going out or not? Do you go to
church twice on Sunday and teach a
Sunday school class, and in conse-
ouence feel as tired Monday morning
Eas you did Saturday night? Do you
.lend your money to your poor rela-
tives, or trust ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
friends to invest it for you? Do you
give IN your vacations to the claims
3f vour relatives, and come back in
d he fall as weary as you were in June?
I'll n short are you wearing out, break
Z etng down, threatened with nervous
rostration, afflicted with blues, all as
ne result of your own folly, your
wn morbid conscientiousness, your
4I,o af
eaIth. happiness and the highest eff
ency? If this, or any considerable
art Of this is what you are doing, you
Ere missing the end of education it
ealf. and there is small chance that
Sou will impart it to your pupils.
LET us try once more. Do you live
sstfully in a happy home; or II you
lust board. do you insist on having a
right, CHEEKY, homelike boarding
Eolace? Do you have a room where
Ron can he comfortable alone by your
Self or with your friends or your
avorite books; and from which you
AN shut all intruders outg DO you
shirk systematically all the petty
irudgery of Housekeeping ana needle
work, reserving all your energy Tor
the one work of teaching where its
llnsnent flood is constantly required?
DO Won shirk everything else, and never
e mind being called lazy, in order to do this
- one thing as well as IL can Ds uohe
81 Do you spend part of every day out
. Of doors. free from care; and sleep
soundIy, without a dream of school or
8 scholar at night? Can you say NO
very time when the chairman OF the
ommfttee wants a paper for the Won
ms Club. or the superintendent OF the
sunday school asks you TO take class,
-,r people invite you to late evening
entertainments where you do not feel
2olble to go? Is Sunday a day OF real
NJ est and refreshment? Do you have
rood times with friends of your own
'hoosing, and spend happy hours in
ongeniai company? Do you invest your
as impersonally and eonserVa-
lively as though you had not friend
~, n the world. in savings banks. or gilt
\ bdged securities. or mortgages on pro
- siuctive property worth three times the
y .Talue of the loan, and owned by per-
] ssons who have other property besides
that on which you hold mortgageE
DO you have long restful. enjoyable va
cations, where you live in the sunshine