New-York tribune., 1903-07-07
EDUCATORS IN BOSTON.
THOUSANDS OF TEACHERS.
address By President Eliot of Hqr-
card and Or. Vest.

AddTeSS OY fFeSadenI ER0t OF 1Qr- !
card and Or. Vest.
Boston July s-when the first of the fifty ses-
sons TO be held in this city this week by the Ma
tional Educational Association opened at $50 a m
more than fifteen. thousand teachers had regis
tered for the fortysecOnd convention of the asso-
citation. Others are on their way. and it is ex-
pected that the total number will reach twenty-five
thousand The president OF the association is
President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard University.
The programme for the convention provides for
sessions in sixteen departments. besides general
meetings every evening and business meetings on
Wednesday and Thursday. The convention will
close On Friday. programme of tours and ex-
cursons has been arranged for subsequent dates.
The general meetings viii be held in Mechanics
Hall. The other sessions will be held in seven of
the Back Bay churches. and in halls and school
buildings in the neighborhood OF Copley Square.
near the headquarters of the association.
The opening session to-day was that OF the Ma
uonal Council. which is described as the Senate Of
the Teachers Association. President William R.
Harper OF Chicago University is president. The
council met in the Second Church. and the pro-
gramme included an address on The Voluntary
Element in Education by Charles De Garmo
professor Of science and of education Cornell
University, Ithaca. Professor De Garuo said in
conclusion:
:. 1t is evident that our democratic system makes
cation to every pupil who finishes the work of the
grammar school. and. moreover to offer all the
ton to all the members Of every Community This
%b Sdq ne tbt done only through common hgh school,
= IN n proIesslonal education the vo.unIary element
IS aroused not by the election of studies but by the
election Of courses.
Saving of Time in Elementary and Secondary
Education" was the subject of an address by
Thomas NJ Ballet Superintendent of Schools. Of
Springfield Mrs Ella Flagg Young. professor Of
education. University Of Chicago also spoke
At the session of the department Of Indian edu-
cation greetings were offered by the Rev Dr.
Edward Everett Hale Lieutenant Governor Guild
and DR.. A. Z. Winship of Boston and Miss Ger
trude Emmons, of Lowell. Responses and re-
sumo Of work of officials and coworkers were
made ". A. Jones. Commissioner OF Indian At
fairs. of Washington; H. B. Frissel principal Of
Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute of
Hampton. Va. and John D. Benedict Superinten-
dent of Schools. of Muskogee. Ind. T. were among
the speakers.
president. ELIOT'S ADDRESS
Charles ". Eliot. president of Harvard University
In an address on general education, said in part:
The ideal of general cultivation has been one of
Ine standards IN education 1t is the object of this
hlgn!y trained human being has undergone sub
stantlaI changes during the nineteenth century.
-. propose 20 use the term cultivated man in only
Its good Sense-in Emersons sense. In this paper
ure. vain of little exclusive information or Of an
uncommon } knack IN Latin verse or mathematical
loglc ne IS TO be of quick perceptions broad
sympathies and wide anities, responsive but inde-
and candor, but also moderation and PROPORTION
courageous but gentle. finished but perfecting.
present ideal and that which prevailed at the be-
ginning Of the nineteenth century. The horizon of
the human intellect has wtdened wonderfully dur
in the last one hundred years, and the scientific
widening. The most convinced exponents and ad-
vocates OF humanism now recognize that science
IS the paramount force of the modern as diStin-
gqlshed from the antique and the medieval spirit
Gohn Addington Symonds-"Culture'). and that "an
Misrepresentation of humanism with science and of
science with humanism is the condition of the
/
| culture-character, language, knowledge and imag-
ination-apd continued:
Culture. therefore, can no longer imply knOwl-
eGsT Oh every & 10 even ntile knowIedge 3l
edge of some things and = real mastery of some
found modification OF the idea OF cultivation whict
the nineteenth century M IN has bTGgsht about What
most proper to the cultivated man? The answer
| must be-those which enable him. with his indi-
| vidEal personal qualities 10 deal best and sym
path1ze best with nature and with other human
In conclusion. he said:
| 1t is one lesson of the nineteenth century then
| that in every field Of human knowledge the con-
| structive imagination lnds play-in literature, in
history, in THEOLOGY in anthrupology and in the
| whole field of physical and biological research.
whole. the scientific Inauguration is quite as pro-
ductive for human service the literary poetic
teGr for example. is as high and productive a
% form mo- OF @ @Indgatoa as I'M tnar o6 - PANE nv OF soete;
which result from the exercise Of the imaginative
drink clothes and shelter. but the satisfaction OF
1t results from this h.ief survey that the ele-
/ ments and of cultivation much more
wise to say of any one acquisition faculty with
1t cultivation becomes possible, without II impos-
sible.
The one acquisition may be immense. 9s1 al, and yet
met artists who Wers rude and uncouth. yet pos
! sessed high degree Of technical skill and strong
| powers of Imagination. We have seen philan-
thropists and statesmen whose minds have played
! lacked accurate use of their mother tongue.
and had historical respective or background
OF historical knowledge. We must not expect Sys-
tenatic education to produce nultitudes Of highly
the multitudlnous product viii always be inper-
feet, just there are no perfect trees. animals,
d flowers crystals
Let US as teachers accept no single element or
member that the best fruits OF real culture are an
open mind broad sympathies and respect for all
the diverse achievements of the human intellect at
: whatever stage Of development they may be to-
ploration, or complete conquest. The moral ale
rnents Of the education are so strong that the
forms Of culture are likely 70 prove themselves
quite productive Of morality high mlndeuneSs
! and idealsm as the old.
peril TO LIBERAL EDUCATION.
Dr. Andrew F West dean Of the Graduate
School OF Princeton University in his paper on
THE Present Peril 10 Liberal Education. said in
part:
Let us think for moment Of what the American
college is II has been evolved out OF our own
needs and has proved its extraordinary usefulness
freedom Of access and IN the prevailing tone Of its
life. It has furnished our society and state with