The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-06
must STATE NOW
PAR'E.|N'TS.?.
Logical Result Of Compulsory
Education, DR.. Giddings
n Declares.
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VERY DIFFICULT OBSTACLE.
Family Must Be Maintained
While Children Are Being
Taught in Schools.
VERY DIFFICULT OBSTACLE
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lsAtt Njs5i.ta5 icy Associate Press.)
s ASBURYs PARK, July Something's of
s3Stlie various departments Of the National
Educational Association were we'll at
stcnded to-day. In the department. Of
elementary education, Or. Charles AL
Fphonso Smith, professor of English Of
the University of North Carolina. spoke
Scn Honor in Student Life in Colleges
4 and Universities Among the other adj
dresses delivered were the following:
.'''NWhat Has Seen Done With One Deaf
Child in His own Home by Anna c.
Reinhardt. OF Hoyt, Pa.
THE Immigrant Child" by Miss Julia
Richnlan, OF New York city.
Child Study In Normal Schools" by
Frank Webster Smith. adjunct professor
III OF education. University Of Nebraska,
5SAs Lincoln Neb.
'Handiwork in Primary Schools by
Miss Wilhelmina Seegmilcr, director of
art instruction, public schools, lndianap
oils, Ind.
Ii Forms and Limitations OF Hand Work
& for Girls in the High School, by Katha-
h rine E. Dopp, extension division. the Uni
5syersity OF Chicago.
g{t. COTelallOn Oh i MUSIC WITH Otncr
Branches In the School Curriculum" by
Miss Elizabeth Cnsterton supervisor of
9Imusc. Bay City, Mich.
Reading in the First School Year" by
Mrs. Alice Woodwork Cooley. assistant
professor, department education, State
University of North Dakota.
THE Importance of the School Yard
for the Physical Well Being, Of School
Children" by Z. II. Hermann Arnold,
director Of Normal School Of Gymnastics,
New Haven. Conn.
ts9s Lessons to be Drawn from the Inter-
national rawing Teachers Congress at
aiBerne." by Charles NJ Carter, art dlrec.
tor, public schools. Denver, COL: member
&of International Committee for the next
Congress, London, 1905
3a THE Aims Of Drawing as a Subject
Hof Instruction in the, Primary Grades"
3 by Miss Emma NJ. Church, director Nor
I NAL Art Department, Chicago Academy
a of Fine Arts, Chicago, Ill.
How Can Normal Schools Best Pro-
Il auce Efficient Teachers of Elementary
"a Branches?' by Grant Karr, superintcnd
NJ mt Of practice department, State Nor
Il nal School. Oswcgo, N. Y.
The Study of Local Industry and
Trade" by John i. Tildslcy High School
81 If Commerce. New York city.
ya compulsory GuuCdtlOH.
There was a big attendance tonight Mt
The general session of the day, which
vas In the auditorium The principal
Sd opic was Child labor and compulsory
~ education, which was discussed by
i George II. Martin, of Boston, and Frank
Es IN II. Giddings, of Columbia University.
S5.orof. Giddings said In part:
Compulsory education by the State
and prohibition Of child labor are
policies undoubtedly socialistic in
~ character. They assert the suprem-
. ncy Of the States interest in the
}ESg child as against any opposing interest
s of the parent. The American people
Il have never been afraid of socialism
HI to this extent, and within the last
5 ten years 1t has greatly extended both
M compulsory education and the prohi-
& hition Of the labor Of children between
% ten and fourteen years of age. 1t
$ would not be inaccurate to say that
u public sentiment at the present time
In New England. in the Northwest and