New-York tribune., 1905-07-05
MAYOR TO TEACHERS.
PRAISES THE THREE RS.
ONLY Real Education Is One Built
on a Solid Foundation.
Inr TELEGRAPH 10 THE rRIprxE.l J

than one-half the number of delegates here from
the Empire State many OF whom nave deferred
visiting headquarters. Irwin Shepard. secretary OF
:he National Educational Association, estimates
that there are fully twenty-five thousand teachers
here. Another special train loaded with teachers
the West is due this evening and stiil another
tomorrow morning.
This afternoon. in the Ocean Grove Auditorium
the visiting teachers assembled and listened to
several addresses. President Maxwell presided
The invocation was offered by the Rev. Dr. aaron
l. Ballard, vice-president OF the Ocean Grove
C,amp Meeting Association. The Auditorium or
chestra led by. Tall Esen Morgan. played
...merica" and other patriotic airs. The principal
speaker was Mayor George b. Mcclellan OF New
York City. Standards OF Local Administration
was the theme of his address. He said. In part:
do not believe that any be oyer-edu-
Gated. / do not believe that any one can be eou-
Gated who has not at least smatterlng OF ns e
RS IL may possibly serve some ~! h Who can
not read even the simplest English. to buttons
the % rule Of three IS uhknown in theory but not
in the practice OF music and cooking ior iia nos T
But the ignorant outsider who is excluded from ths
Parnassus of educational circles may be perm.teG
10 wonder at the wherefore of il all IL is anything
bufriattering 10 our standards OF ocal iia
schools seldom succeed at either West Point or
annapolis Run through . ist @ OF Ine fi ofen ind
among them the products OF @ private % from the
Inied IS ssSerSod bless herhas had no other
working capital at her command than fair know
ledge 81 The three RS which she has con-
rns that poa veil 10 not T that play
ing devils advocate at the canonizauoil Eau ,n % as
educational utilities. Many of them are reany any
me eadency which exists TO exploit the teacher at
the expense of the taught inevitably results IN s
subjects, in puzzing his poor little prah IN bigSer
SSSpng g X IN Rbsn e e ean scarcely read and
write in making him little jack OF all trades aiA
as YOU iikeDthe more the better-but in doing SO
remember that there can De no educaIo1 ,ro,pb o1
mastery ma terry, Of first principles; -, only Dur-
pose-of public education-for il is with punnc ecu
cation only that we are CONCERNED, to-1Rg W. have
thrown doors wide open to tn people 1t our
whole world Egey ~ F mposes @S Upon us an ad
ditional duty which cannot shirk The pp1nIten p.t
depends entirely upon ourselves, Every little on
shoot Of nss an fTam aTnad Ras in him unlimited
possibility for veal woe. dependent apsoluteI.s
of our institutions ignorant of customs ignorant
Of language ne remains stranger ~ one Of
foreign people within our OWN III II on on,y Te 70 read
and write the English language. hut what is OF even
importance an peTtspee m ea and a% To fRink fRf6kk 1 D
English. then have made Of him finlz5n GU ice el
the United States and endowed him with the pIlo5 p5
less right of working out his salvation as an |>ie
can - >, ,bousbt and men of
learning and needs them badly: The man VINO VINO
thinks be greater patriot than te ne eetness
e0d ueht viii avail unless accompanied by action
he useless without the power of EXPRESSION I'VE we
have deied action at the expense OF al leisure
no longer stands at the top OF our copy DOCKS, .i
that We are almost convinced that any action Is
better than none. Not nTflF nave .sr b'+
thought and deberation hid fair to follow them far
heavens sake. act threatens 10 become our guild
Ing &r rule srer from the spirit of unrest which fire.
ouently prompts ill-consdered tmmafnre9 I go
Sn;og something We are inclined TO applaud me
man VINO does not so much because he acconp-
nshes ssstbng dg'bes be II good bad or Indifferent
hs spirit of unrest Permeateis our tntnent BIDS
fair io be banished from our existence ne Hn1 iat -
s0a VET ambition and mysteries very different
things. Contentment ana hsp;hIh LII in struggle
foT the unobtairahle Were ambitions laudahie
state Of mind would ne mos1 now wbat we are
et-i,.inp for We have forgotten that DEEDS are
s msTey h e %eSns e treat to n the deeds
summum bonum. the ultimate OBJECT o. al''iii
Andrew s Draper. of Albany. State Commits
s,oner Of Education. followed Mayor Mcclellan
His theme The Nations Eouca'oilai ui-
pcse" In part II as follows;
In spite Of threadbare claims tho original
settlers America held no settled purposes f com
cerning education which can 1e oe - nd mn
defined educational purposes 3I me- tne Ino' Re-
Sore independence American schools were dlsso,,
ciated and fragmentary. There was no educatlo@nal @
system The schools. like those over me seq, d. th
Tingushed between what were conceived 10 i, pe tc
SIMPLER needs 9f the pe2santry ana Ic ue fy er
OF classical training of the higher classes Si 9id 80,
vice in the Church and State. lndeI endehee o!q NJ
Srrpese Sf Issef Neher the DeclaTaton Con-
stitution dozen years later held any reIerence ~ o
schools had come be function OF the severaI
States and they were unwilling 10 make ~ lullc-
tention. il scarcely referred 10 ~ tng p- ba
Cause the men Of the Continental Congress ana OF
the Constitutional Convention were lllteraie or
we're ipdifersnt to IeaTnhhg Ih men IN their genera
ton Half of them were graduates OF cohese;;
sonnd no place in the Declaration the Consti
rufion because education held TO be only
@sF 1e5n Of IF SGsi orsaniISa nS PfyaHS
The FIRST Fundamental laws OF al of INC original ga
of those states established. contained no subsian-
reflected in the early statutes Usage: the foreign
influence the fact that thought would run In es-
resiiv became free and as the conventionalities
OF the mother political system came "a be really
spS force The operation OF our governmental
system has developed popular purpose POSE As se
FAIRS with added confidence and more freely, and
aS grew aecsiveiy While the rst CONSTITUTIONS and
laws Of the original States made little or no ref
erence Il. those Of all Of the newer States were
They We're not orly alive with provisions for the
but for higher schools. colleges and universities
which should also be common to all And Will. While
determined that they viii not learn it. there is no
pose having it's most luzurfsnt development among
The people who exercise their Political power more
Inc Union wherever caste has been most
Tlsteiy oveIahrorn wherever the aptitude for self
fundamental principle Of the Declaration OF Inde-
pendenoe that all men are created with equivalent
ance. there the educational purpose OF America has
had its best exemplihcatior. and there IL has
horn ifs abundant