Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-04
TO EDUCAT ORS
Mayor Mcclellan at Asbury
Park Today.
NATIONAL GATHERING
MEETINGS OF MANY DEPART
MENTs WERE HELD.
Number Of Interesting Papers and Adj
dresses Observation-Disclosures of
School Work Discussed.

ASBURY PARK, N. J., July 4.-Incoming
trains brought more delegates to the Ma
tional Educational Associations convention
today. Meetings of many departments were
held. At the science instruction depart
ment President Frank NJ. Gilley delivered
an address. He was followed by Clarence
E. Comstock of Peoria, ILL.,, whose subject
was Correlation of Mathematics and
Science"
Hugo Newman Of New York city read a
paper on Science Teaching in Elementary
schools"
Manual training was discussed at a meet
ing in the Young Peoples Temple Ocean
Grove. The president, Arthur H. Cham
berlain of Pasadena, Cal, discussed The
Problems That Perplex" How Can Class
Teachers Be Educated to the value Of
Manual Training?" was the question dis
cussed by Prof. Frank M. McMurray Of the
Teachers College, Columbia University.
New York.
Charles F. Warner of Springfield. Mass.
delivered an address on Industrial Train
ing In Public Evening Schools"
At the high schools meeting the presi-
dents address was delivered by William
Schuyler of St. Louis, Mo-. who spoke on
1.-THE Schoomaster." a.-.---
'Why Do So Many Pupils Leave the High
discussed by Isaac Thomas. principal of
the Burlington. VT, high school.
Mr.. McClellan's Remarks.
Mr. Mcclellan said in part:
Teaching, so far it goes. Is most ad-
mirable, but the teaching of children that
does not educate can scarcely justify any
expenditure of public moneys. What our
scheme Of government requires is that our
children be educated. They must be taught,
of course as a condition precedent to the
education; but the teaching is only means
to an end, and is by no means an end In it
self.
depends very much on circumstances Every
thing in this world is progressive; nothing
stands still. AS we travel upon the journey
of human evolution the broad and we'll
paved road ahead may not cause US alto
gether to forget the beauty of the scenery
left behind.
..Our economic and Industrial development
has been so extraordinary during the last
half century that the inevitable tendency
has been in the direction of the practical
rather than the beautiful. However desra-
BILE it may be to increase the total of the
earth's productivity, the most uncompro-
missing economist must sometimes sigh for
the economically incorrect charm of his
native country side. Factory chimneys may
increase the wealth of nations but green
valleys and wild flowers, even pretty weeds.
add more to their peoples happiness. In
the race for wealth in which for years we
have been engaged, our educators. recognize
ing the economic law of supply and de-
mand, have tried to bring to market only
salable goods
when fond parents have preferred that
colleges should turn out money making ma
chimes rather than educated men. colleges
have met the demand, and well-chosen
elective courses have graduated hard
headed young men ready to begin the strug
gle for life. Time being literally money
every day saved In preparation for the con-
test has been considered of advantage. A
han hall nf- dnur In QnU
means that its recipient Is a specialist In
some one narrow line of money-making
and not that he is the possessor of liberal
education The craze to turn out complete
money-making machines is not confined to
our colleges; 1t has even entered the field
of public education.
The time that the average child can af-
ford to spend at school Is necessarily all
too short: so short. in fact. that very little
ground can be covered thoroughly. Public
education cannot hope to make specialists
1t can only hope to prepare children to In
time become specialists. AS the require
ments of modern conditions change, so the
requirements needed to meet modern con-
ditions change.
1.-The three RS of yesterday may not nee
essarily be the three RS OF today. But
there are certain fundamental subjects that
every one must know, and know well, IL
success in after life is to be hoped for.
These fundamentals are the same all over
the world. However much opinions may
differ as TO what should constitute a liberal
or fundamental education, there should
be no difference of opinion as to what
should form the ground work. You have a
great opportunity here in this convention,
you who 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 RS throughout the United States.
THE country needs men of thought and
men of learning. and needs them badly. The
man who thinks may be greater patriot
than the man who does. 1t has been said
that TO amount of sweetness and light will
avail unless accompanied by action, which
is the same as saying that the brain would
be useless without the power of expression.
We have deified action at the expense of
thought.
THE good old motto. Act in haste, re-
pent at LEISURE no longer stands at the
top of our copy books. We have so per-
sistently preached the doctrine of action
that we are almost convinced that any ac-
ton is better than none. Not only have
sweetness and light been discarded as ef-
Terminate fads. but thought and elaboration
bid fair to follow them. If you can't act
well. then act badly; but for heavens sake
act. threatens to become our guiding rule"
Personal Mention.
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