Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-06-26
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DIRECTORS Meeting
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COUNTY SCHOOL DIRECTORS
MEET SATURDAY: AT HIGH !
SCHOOL LARGELY At /;
,. TENDED. /
COUNTY, SUPERINTENDENT WIG.
NESS, rADDREss-PERMANENT !
COUNTY, ORGANIZATION
EFFECTED.

NESS, eADDREss-PERMANENT
COUNTY ORGANIZATION
EFFECTED.
The annual meeting of the school
officers Of, .Burleigh county held in
Bismarck, last Saturday was we'll at
tended. go 81. r.. &C.. -
The meeting was called to order at
1880 a. m. by County Snpt Vigness,
after which he asked some Informal
ton as to- what steps were taken at
The. last meeting in the matter of a
permanent organization. Finding that
had been done along these
lines he suggested the ACCESSIBILITY of
some action to organize being taken
before the meeting adjourned. =
Opening Address. '.@9..
members and Clerks of School Boards:
Fellow Workers: J. take the liberty
TO welcome you as fellow workers.
we are all united in i.-one common
work, one common duty-the educa-
ton of our children. These children
are soon to occupy our places in life,
and they will fill these places accord
ingly as we have prepared them. The
Intricate problems confronting our
civilization are becoming more intri-
cate, more complex every day. And
to keep pace with them requires an
ever broadening mental grasp. We
must not forget this point, and we
shall soon agree to the statement that
what was good enough for our fathers
is not good enough for Us; and what
is good enough for us will not be good
enough for our children. More will be
demanded from our children than was
demanded from us. Greater problems
will confront them than we ever
dreamed of, and greater skill will be
needed to contend with these prob.
lens. ;
Now I mention those facts because
1t is my special desire to impress upon
you as the educational representatives
OF Burleigh county the Importance of
your and my work. Our time is max
ing rapid strides forward along all
lines, social, political and educational
1t requires trained, well-balanced and
conservative intelligence to meet it's
various functions. We want our chill
dren so equipped that they may be
able at least to remain in the ranks.
We do not want them to occupy
back seat. We must put them in
position to see clearly through any
situation, judge it rightly and grapple
with it in accordance with righteous
ness and duty, and thus become truly
good and useful citizens of a free
land. This, then, brings before us
vital question: How may we adapt
our schools to meet the growing needs
of our children? The teachers
throughout the land are seriously
this question, but l am anx-
ious to bring it home to you and to
every parent. We are responsible for
the proper training of those in our
charge; we want to do what is just
and right; we do not want our chill
1ren to chide and blame us after we
are gone to the other side, for falling
70 give them what they had a right 20
demand from us.
Let us be more practical in this dis
Let me bring some ques-
ions home to you as members of school
boards. You have employed your
,eacher. They go to your school
house. You send your children. The
.eacher oftentimes finds that from
now on she must teach school and do
It alone. Both teacher and children
ind the school room furnished with
poor, insufficient black boards, build
ngs and outhouses cracked and
lot Of books probably
Jumped into box, an old stove, etc.
cherries and far
from being homelike. 1 have found
many such cherries school surrond-
ngs in your county. Everything
there tends to depress teacher and
pupil. We find nothing of the cheer
ful and homelike which is so essential
% the culture of the nobler sentiments
In our children. Now. this q. is r. all
wrong and pardon me for saying that
It lies entirely with you school officers
10 remedy this. The teachers must
meet the situation as it is and make
The best Of it.
In order to be fair want to say
that this description does not apply to
all our schools not even to the ma
Iority. But we do find some cheer
less. disolate school houses. have
visited other schools. find the