The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-10-22

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 7songs of the British Isles" was deliv- cred by Supervisor F. E. Howard of Bridgeport, and illustrated by Mrs. Robert Hard. There was also school singing by the Derby High school scholars.
 This ended the morning session. At 2 o'clock Charles D. McIyer, IL. D., president of the State Normal and In- dustrial college of North Carolina, made an address in Woolsey hall on
 The Teacher as a Citizen"
 ADDRESS BY PREsIDEN MINERS.
 At the general meeting in the after noon the address was by Dr. Charles D. McIvers, president of the State Nor mai and Industrial school of North Carolina. His subject was 'The Teach CT as a Citizen He said, '.The law 1 yer not only advises his clients and appears for them in the courts, but he is the citizen of the most influence in his community on public matters relating to courts and legal relation ships. The physician heals and com forts patients, but he is also the cit l ALCll Ol IllOSL lHHuellCO MuSIS QuSol1Vio of public sanitation are concerned.
 "As the teacher cIght to teach the children of the people and at the same time be their most influential adviser on the management of educational matters, whereas the truth is that the teacher lives so much out of contact with our adult life that his opinions on educational matters are so little re- garded by legislators and public lead CTS that in many cases he cannot even select the tools with which he is to work. In many parts of the country 1 text books are decided on by farmers, business men and local leaders, ad- vised by lawyers who are the paid at torneys of publishing houses. We teachers live too exclusively with proper influence on our contemporaries, and both the profession and the pub lie suffer thereby.
 "It ia not altogether surprising that
 the old woman who was asked how many children she had, replied: Two living, two dead and one teaching school
 "The essential educational needs of this great country are not so different as we might expect them to be.
 "In spite of the fact that North Car olina is ten times as large in area as Connecticut, and has twice it's popula- tion, about three times the school pop ulation, and not quite two-thirds of your school revenues to support dou- ble school system for two races, yet our two great defects are your two great defects.
 Both states and most other states are laboring under the fatal delusion that poorly paid and therefore, poorly prepared teachers and a schoolhouse almost in sight of every home will re- suit in an educated citizenship.
 "Connecticut is rich state and ranks about fourth in density of pop ulation. There is no good reason why | it should not have just such a system of education as the people desire to have. Yet eleven-twelfths of the teach CTS of Connecticut are women whose average salary is $45 a month. The net income after paying living expens- es is little more than the wages of unskilled labor in the corn, cotton and tobacco fields of the south, and an ann ateur mechanic in any section of the country is better paid. The southern teachers salaries are even less than yours are, and that we need worse than you do, school consolidation, are only differences in degree.
 That many of your teachers are un- trained goes hand in hand with the fact that about sixty per cent. of Con- necticut teachers have never attended normal school.
 Your monthly salaries have increas- ed only eight dollars in tWenty-six years, according to your published school report of 1902. You have 131 schools in which there are less than eight pupils each, and in one county sixty schools with less than fifteen pu- pills each. From the same report I. learn that you have seventy-five chill dren in eight schools with thirty-six officers. Not every teacher knows that this is unnecessary waste, and the teacher must be enough of citizen sufficiently related to the current life in which he moves to pursuade his fel- low citizens to see the waste and mend their ways
 'The important concern Is not what has been done by us or our ancestors, but the question is are we moving for- ward, and how fast? I'd rather be a live man at the foot of the mountain with the upward look of faith and the step of progress than to be corpse on the summit, or blase traveller who thinks he is standing still but Is really coming back. One day a negro boy came rushing into the waiting room at a railway station, and a man said, John, where are you going?" T ain't gwine nowhere boss; done been to de place I'm gwine to-
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