The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-05
THE TEACHERS.
Several Addresses Before National Ed
 ucatiOnal Association.

ucattOna1 Association.
 Asbury Park, N. J., July 4.-Incoming
 trains brought more delegates to the | National Educational Associations con- | vention today. Meetings of many de- | partments were held. At the session of
 instruction department. President Frank M. Gillen delivered an address.
 He was followed by Clarence M. Com | stock, Peoria, III, whose subject was l Correlation of Mathematics and Science" Hugo Newman of New York City read | a paper on Science Teaching in Ele- | mentary Schools" r.i Manual training was discussed at. netting in the Young People Temple. l Chamberlain of Pasadena, Cal, discuss ed The Problems that Perplex." How Can Class. Teachers be Edu- l cated to the Value of Manual Training?" was the subject discussed by Professor Frank McMurray of the Teachers Col | lege. columbia University. New York. Charles F. Warner of Springfield. Mass, delivered an address on Indus
 trial Training in Public Evening | Schools" ..-
 At the high school meeting the Pres | ident's address was delivered by Will | Ham Schuyler of St. Louis. Mo. who spoke on "The Schoolmastcr"
 | ny bO 90 mdHy TuptS ACdNc thS High School in the First Year?' was
 the topic by Isaac Thomas of Burling- | ton. Vt.
 Mayor George B. Mcclellan of New
 York City. spoke to an audience of 1000
 on The Standards of Local Adminis- l tration."
 | Mayor Mcclellan said in part. T trust that the subject which has
 been assigned to me means educational l administration and, therefore, educa- l tfon itself. It may be that I am old fashioned: 1t may be that my theories
 are obsolete. but assure you that I am | sincere in saying that I believe that
 schools exist for man and not man for | schools There Is no more misused,
 misapplied and misunderstood word in l the English language than education. | To teach Is one thing, to educate Is
 another. As tho requirements of mod
 ern conditions change, sc the require
 ments needed to meet modern condi-
 tions change. The three R's of yester-
 day may not necessarily be the three
 Rs of today. But there are certain
 fundamental subjects that everyone
 should know. and know well if success | in after life is to be hoped for. You
 have a great opportunity here In this | convention. you make education your
 life work. to agree upon what these | Fundamentals should be and then. by
 educating public sentiment. to cause
 their adoption as the three R's through out the United States. The chief pur- | pose--for that matter the only purpose
 of public education-for 1t Is with pub
 lic education only that we are con-
 cerned today-is to make good citizens
 of the republic. We have thrown our
 doors wide open to the people of the
 whole world. Every immigrant who | accepts our invitation and comes to us | imposes upon us an additional duty,
 which we cannot shirk. The problem Is | serious. but by no means insoluble. Its
 solution depends entirely upon our ser vices.
 The country needs men of thought
 and men of learning. and needs tn sm | badly. The man who thinks may be greater patriot than the man who does. | It has been said that no amount of shrewdness and light will avail unless accompanied by action, which is the same as saying that the brain would be | useless without the power of express sion. We have defied action at the ex | pense of thought. The good old motto, "act in haste. repent at leisure." no longer stands at the top of our copy | books. We have SO persistently preach
 ed the doctrine of action that we are almost convinced that any action Is bet ter than none.
 We suffer from the spirit of unrest
 which subsequently, prompts us to ill.,
 considered. immatured and thoughtless | action, often merely for the sake of do- ing something. We are inclined to ap- plaud the man who does, not so much
 because he accomplishes anything use- full. as because he accomplishes somc- | thing. be 1t good, bad or indifferent
 This spirit of unrest permeates our
 whole national life. political. social. ed-
 ucational. Contentment bids fair to be
 banished from our existence. He who
 is content Is sneered at as being with out ambition. and yet ambition and mysteries are very different things. Con-
 tentment and happiness are synonym
 ous but we prefer to sacrifice both in
 struggle for the unobtainable." An oration entitled The Nations Ed
 ucational Purpose" was discussed by
 Andrew S. Draper, New York State Commissioner of Education.
 The report of the committee on tax
 ation as related to public education
 was submitted by Jas. H. Greenwood. of Kansas City. Mo.
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