New-York tribune., 1903-07-11
EDUCATORS LAST DAY.
VALUE OF KINDERG4RTEN
Boston Coarentioa attended by
More Than $4,000 Teachers.

Boston, July loThis is the closing day OF the 1905
convention Of the National Educational Association
All say the meeting has been one o. the most
cessful ever held by the organization. More than
thirty thousand teachers have attended Ten of the
sixteen departments Of the association had sessions
scheduled to-day. The national council met To clear
up its business The kindergarten department dis
cussed the topic. The Kindergarten and the Com
munity"
Richard Watson Glider. Editor of The Century
Magazine" speaking upon The kindergarten and
Its 0piifting influence j" the H"ae and Dik.3iet
said, IN part:
management OF the child is revelation 10 the
parents- one philosophical observer Of the good
An iie. All - stem M ., s'i he yo~L Of the
mothers meetings ana clubs and the vlstations on
the part OF the teachers 10 the loplos II .ne chill
meetings also. 80 excessive claim should be rut
fcrth for any single one Of the various 5uccesstu
be claimed for the ki1de1s8rJen. without eaRe ra
morality of the caiid at earliest age posi-
bic for outside Influences to lay strong hold upon
1t-It forms social centre Of a compelling nature
com panneats. should prove to be s5cil,iy such
force. ana such a force for GOOD.
America i br:iyeIy atteInpt.iss 70 be true
cy in its influence the children, arG through
them upon the people 1t idrge.
G. Stanley Hall president of Clark University.
Worcester Mass. in speaking Of Education in the
High School" said in part:
Make boys more manly. and girls more w0manly;
While would not abolish cC-educatOn, / would
modIy IL one bad erect IL girls IS seen IN al
4ot lo-llu silioS Lobe women DuI III iIi, ~
eighteen out OF one hundred college girls even go
tnan women, and more than one-hah choose man
Boys differ. a different discipline. regimen and
methods o. work are needed The boy needs more
present progressive Termination prevails. Boys tend
80 grow content with work that develops or requires
Tttie bio0r9 E r1iitai Of iba i6a8f girl by close
~ II oft
education is perhaIs seen in small and diminish
We can at least enlarge the elective system, try
70 avoid the great preponderance Of girls IN the
ure suggests and give woman in the end an educa-
boys boys '''' ' ~ '''e-''-'
Among the speakers in the Indian department
Hamlin Garland. West Salem. Wis. who said:
I am an evoIutionist as regards the question of
TRANSMITTED into something than they are
by any fervor Of religious experience. nor by any
They change slowly and suffer in the change
ing with sympathy and insight 10 assist those who
are coming up behind us
The Rev. Dr. c T. Walker. of Mount Olivet Bap-
tist Church. New-York City, the largest colored
congregation in the North. spoke in The evening
on The Educational Needs of the Southern Ne
gro" saying in part:
The leaders of my race recognize the respoEsioI-
Possession of a more Intelligent, honorable cit-
zenship. They have comrneil ed the serious ana R
assistance and encouragement of the IflCldS OF
popular education success is absolutely certain.
Judging the future by the past and present, negro
5lliteraCy Will be reduced 10 a greater extent In
the next twenty years than II has seen IN me en-
tire forty years freedom. The past has been
foundation work, and much foundation work re
mains vet 0 be done. The results of this work are
apparent. and. the whole, highly grauIy-
ing. For the negro has reauced MS iililericy py
81 per cent. We have 100000 negro children IN the
public schools 5000 negro teachers, 4oVV0 students
in higher institutions, 10000 students learning
trades. 5000 students pursuing classical and
scientific courses For the bringing about of these
splendid results ] by no means unmlndIul OF
the work Of that noble army of Christian men and
women by whose self-sacTifcing efforts the very
cornerstone Of intellectual freedom was laid,
ard the thousands of Northern philanthropists
who have poured out their wealth for the support
Of Southern schools.
The educational needs of the negroes Of the
South he said, a better system Of public
schools trade and technical schools high grade
normal schools and colleges for the training of
teachers and leaders. The South, he said has as
yet set up no barrier TO prevent man from max
ing honest living account Of the color of his
skin. The speaker went on:
The black man Of the South. with well regulated
public schools in the rural districts, with protec-
lion to life and property, will purchase and cult
lands and will, by the aid of industrial edu-
cation, become important factor in the develop
meut Of the almost boundless resources of the
South
Finally 7 believe in the possibilities Of my race
because / have faith in God. The negro is in Amer
Sea by the providence of God: he has mission "a
Perform. am hopeful of my race because have
falth in the American people The trend Of public
sentiment in this country. expressed by its best
citizens, moves in the right direction.