Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-12
TEACHERS End WORK
The Big Convention at Mime.
apolis Closes After a Sue.
cessful Meeting.
Attendance the Largest in the
History Of the National
Association.
Establishment Of a Department
ofEducation Urged-Federa-
ton Organized.

ton organized.
| Minneapolis, Mimi, July 1.-THE am
nual convention of the National Educa-
| tional Association closed last night. The
delegates unite in saying that it has
been the most successful convention
from every standpoint ever held.
Some twenty thousand teachers have
been in the city during the convention
Six general sessions and forty-five de-
partment meetings were held. Notable
addresses have been made by distin-
| guished educators, and Il national fed
GRAFTON of teachers was organized as a
side issue to the convention.
| Nearly four thousand more delegates
| than We're expected attended the ses-
sons. The teachers have voted q re-
I turn of thanks to Minneapolis and st.
| Paul for the royal entertainment they
have enjoyed, and many will remain a
few days in the Twin Cities to visit
points of interest
Outgoing trains are crowded with the
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homes or vacation points. 1t is UNDER
stood that Boston will be the meeting
| place next year.
\ The National Federation of Teachers
was organized yesterday, the following
officers being chosen:
| observation-disclosures Haley, Chicago.
| First Vice President-NIiss *. Maud
| Clum, st. Paul.
Second Vice President-Miss Mary
MCGOWAN, Cincinnati.
| Secretary-NIiss Annette Rosenthal,
Milwaukee.
Treasurer - Miss Emma McCabe,
New York.
The following report of the commit
| tee on resolutions of the National Edu-
cational Association was adopted last
evening:
/ "Sixth-We commend to all local au-
| thorities the necessity of greater care
| in the arrangement of courses of study,
| that they may be adapted to the pupils
| to be instructed, rather than that pupils
should be adapted to a fixed course of
study and an infleXible system of grad
| ing. We hold that the individuality of
| the pupil should be carefully consid-
cred to the end that he may be in
structed in the light of his limitations
and capacity. And we urge greater
| thoroughness in instruction in the So
called elementary subjects. rather than
enrichment of courses already over
taxed at the expense Of thorough and
satisfactory work.
"Seventh-We regard true education
as inseparable from morality and be-
lieve the public school the recognized
agency to make this relation binding.
We urge public school authorities of
| the country. teachers and parents to
give strict attention to moral instruc-
| ton in our schools as the true founda-
| ton of character and citizenship. Every
consideration of good public policy and
healthful social conditions point to the
necessity of such instruction.
1.-THE teachers and friends of educa-
| ton make the following statement of
principles:
"First-On account Of the increased
responsibilities placed on the bureau of
education in the organization and adj
ministration of public school systems in
the recently added territories OF the
| United States, in successfully onducting
an extensive system of Indian schools
and in aiding the various states and
| territories in securing good and efficient
| school systems that we urge upon con-
gress the necessity for organizing the
| bureau upon broader lines and clothing
| the commissioner with higher and more
| definite powers. We believe that the
| time has come for the recognition of the
great importance of educational inter-
| ests of the country in the conduct of af-
| fairs by the organization of the DEPART
ment of education as an dependent de-
partment, taking equal rank With other
| departments.
"Second-we reiterate the statement
which has so often been made in the
declaration of principles that the COM
mon schools of this country are for the
education of all the children. They are
the one great agency upon which the
ration is to rely for a barrier against
the setting up of class distintions
| which have no place on American soil
| We believe that Il conservative but eff
cent compulsory education law. with
the proper regulation of child labor. is
necessary to the complete realization of
a good common school system.
"Third-We heartily commend every
| step which may be taken Tor increasing
the necessary qualifications of teachers
and hope soon to see as definite a
| standard for the training of teachers as
| is now fixed by the best schools in the
| country for the training of physicians
o, lawyers.
"Fourth-Again we would plead for
unity of effort for the complete educa-
ton of the child, constantly keeping in
mind that the present division of the
work of instruction into elementary,
secondary and higher is for administers
tive purposes only.
"Iifth-We believe that 1t is both
lust and possible to keep the country
| schools in the foreground, and in all re-
I spects up to the highest standard of
| excellence and efficiency. We, there
fore. congratulate those states which
have been pioneers in demonstrating
| the possibilities of this mode of reor-
sanitation and renew our endorsement
and commentator of 1t as the best plan
vet proposed in relief of the isolated
one room schools.
\ "Isighth--It is apparent that famil-
iarity with the English Bible as a mas
| terpiece of literature is rapidly decreas-