Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-07-04
Future Planned for Ma
tiOnaI Educational
Association
BY ACT OF CONGRESS
Presidents of Universities to
be Members---BeyOnd Mi
nor influences.

Asbury Park, n. j., July 4.-To form
advancement Of educational science.
with the stability and powers of the
Smithsonian Institution and the Car
negie Institution, to receive gifts for
the intellectual uplifting of the human
race-such is the plan to be submitted
TO the 44th annual convention Of the
National Education association, which
held its first session in the Ocean Grove
auditorium last evening.
Desire Act of Congress.
BY special act of congress it is ex-
pected the National Educational asso-
citation itself. and under this name, is
to become a permanent institution, un-
changing except as education advanc-
es and higher ideals become necessary.
The convention will adopt the plan,
which was taken up in all its details
by the board of directors this after
noon. The next congress will be ask
ed to pass the bill already drafted.
The plan of making a voluntary or
ganization, composed of the presidents
of universities and the higher educa-
tors. as we'll as the great rank and file
of the grade teachers, is novel. If
congress passes the bill the assOcia-
ton will be the first in the world TO
occupy the position of permanency un-
disturbed by changes in officers.
Address ON school Master.
The feature OF this mornings pro-
gram was an address on "The School
Master" by William Schuyler, of st.
Louis, Mo. Mr.. Schuyler said in part:
For years schoolmasters have gath
cred together and discussed what they
should do for the children committed
to their charge. They have accom-
plished much by these discussions, but
they. should remember that Charity
begins at home" and should sometimes
consider the ever present question,
What shall they do for themselves?
For the success of the school depends
mainly upon the schOOlmaster, the
schoolmaster as a man-not only as a
man of learning or of executive abili-
ty, but more especially as a man of
the world. AS his aim is to fit his
charges for life in the world-the
world as it is, not as it ought to be
he must know this world thoroughly.
Applies to Secondary Schools.
Especially is this true for teachers
in secondary schools, many OF whose
pupils are soon TO make their way in
the world equipped with what the
schools has given them. The Oldest
already know something of the world,
and Judge their teachers most severe
Iy if they show ignorance of it. The
mere man OF books, the pedant school
master. has been for ages the butt of
satire and caricature. This too COM
mon literary parsonage should be sup
planted by the schOolmaster in his
true part as guide, counsellor, and
friend
The schoolmasters influence de-
pends more upon what he is than upon
what he knows. He should be like
those pilots who not only know every
reef, but whose barks have never
been wrecked. He should be the mas
ter. not a slave of the world. He can
attain this mastery only by mingling
with men of the world and by learn
ing from them. His acquaintances
and some of his close friends should be
men OF very different life from his
own. In this way the schoolmaster
can learn to understand better the par
ents of his pupils and SO understand
better the pupils who are modelling
themselves upon their parents.
Muat Have Understanding.
For all his book learning, all his
skill in presentation will be OF little
avail unless his pupils understand him
and sympathize with him and vice
versa. The schOolmaster must endeav
or to be like ST. Paul, and become all
things to all men, that he may by all