The Glenwood post., 1906-12-29
TEACHERS MEET
COLORADO STATE TEACHERS AS
SOClATiON.
VERY NEAR TWO THOUSAND

1reatest Gathering of Teachers Ever
Known in the State-WeIcomed by
Governor and Governor-Elect -
Notable Address by Chicago Pro-
fessor.
Denyer,-The thirty-second annual
citation opened auspiciously Wednes-
DAY III the East Denver high school
with by far the largest enrolment 4 hat
organization has ever known. Nearly
every town in the state was repre-
sented. At noon the register showed
LOO names and by evening the nun.
per was raised to nearly 1000.
In the afternoon the great assem-
bly, hall was packed, with standing
room hard to find During the general
association meeting and at its close,
after the lecture by Prof. George E.
Vincent, the school teachers tlocked
into the corridors where an informal
reception that resembled bedlam was
held. AT one table teachers were reg
isterlng, at another friends Of teach.
ers We're asking for them.
AT another table teachers were sub.
scribing for school journals. At third
the programs and free literature con.
cerning things educational, We're being
doled out, and at still another tickets
for the lectures were selling like hot
cakes.
East Denver high school was buster
than public market on Saturday
morning, CHEEKY and lively as u hop
at a college.
Things began at 8 a. m. when meet
| ing of the Educational council was
held, as is the custom, behind closed
| doors.
At p M the doors of the assembly
| room swung wide to admit 400 teach
ers and interested laymen to the after,
noon proceedings which were opened
by an invocation by Annie B. Hyde,
| Music, directed by Wilberforce j..
| Whiteman, supervisor of music in this
| city, followed the invocation, and in
| turn came the address of welcome by
| Gov. Jesse f. Mcdonald, Governor
elect Henry A. Buchtel of the Univer'
sity of Denver, Mayor Robert r. Speer
and A. j. Spengel, president of the
| chamber of Commerce. They were
| brief addresses that made the big audi
| ence at home at once, and in response
| Miss katherin Craig, as state superin'
| tendent of public instruction, gave a
| short talk. Committees on neurology
| and resolutions were appointed and
| twenty-five nominators were elected,
| after which the afternoon session
| closed with a brilliant lecture on "Edu.
cation and Efficiency" by George e
| Vincent of Chicago University.
Professor Vincent spoke at the rate
| of 300 words a minute without stops
pace that no living stenographer
| could follow with a pencil and few
could follow with the mind.
A few remarks caught on the fly in
dicated that Professor Vincent consid
| cred three qualities as essential to the
success of a teacher: knowledge, wis
| dom and enthusiasm. The balance OF
all was the thing TO attain.
Energy alone become fanaticism
| Wisdom without energy is useless,
etc. He characterized the lifeless man
| as n bit of human jelly with Il back
bone of wet spaghetti.
"Dou you feel your life bounding
| with enthusiasm? If so, then your
work is not a job. It's profession,
| said the professor
To illustrate the folly of worry over
petty details, he told of the man who
tried to commit suicide and who, upon
| being revived was asked why he tried
to destroy his life.
"Oh." said the man wearily, 81 got
to thinking how much buttoning and
unbuttoning I'd have TO do the rest OF
my life, and | decided that life was not
worth living"
A few epigrams of the professors S
follow:
"A man who can wear necktie that
womankind cannot prevent has aesthe.
tic power
You're safe if you never take
things out of two pigeonholes at the
same time"
you see on the street a man bowling
to woman. He smiles with grace
almost human and you say this is old
time courtesy. But not so; he is purely
automatic.
1.-The lady has pressed the button in
his organism and the result is an ap-
propriate and prompt reaction"
"'The most vigorous and responsible
audiences | have ever addressed were
made up of inmates of the penitentiary
and school teachers"
Speaking against the mechanical in
teaching, he said
Don't be an automaton. a man
once addressed the prisoners in peni-
tentiary, opening with Pm glad to see
so many of you here" 1t was a half
hour before he could proceed.
Automatic education is only valu-
able when routine situations occur. At
present the multiplication table must
be taught mechanically, but the time is
coming when multiplication will be fig
ured by an automatic calculator, like a
watch"
H. Mill. ELL Clair.