Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-07-12
VAST THRONG FILLS
AUDITORIUM AT LAST
NIGHT N. b. A. MEETING
THOUSANDSTURNED AWAY FROM DOOR
With Closing Sessions Today Educators Look
Forward to Series of Delightful Entertain
ments and Sightseeing Trips to Follow
Hard Work of Convention

education with the reading of the Bible
"The first girls high school was opened
in Boston in 1896, but was closed TWO
years later because too alarmingly popu'
lar The reception of the first women, 5
cubs-the New England and the SoroslS
boding as to results both of education fol-
girls and of organization for women has
proved groundless. We have outgrowr
the primitive idea of woman's place in tbs
universe and in education. If she cannot
evolve the thing, she may environ II anc
thus save force. Men are doing the ma
terial work of the world; women are
freer TO devote their energies to educa'
ticn. Woman approaches the school from
a different view point from the teacher
and brings forces to the work not to be
elsewhere obtained.
Women are organized for the first
time in history, and through organization
more can be accomplished than through
individual or sporadic efforts. Their pri-
mary object is altrulstic-enlarged means
of helping others.
'Womens educational ideals are not SC
high as those Of the great scholars, bun
they are broader. To them il seems more
TO read and write one language than thai
& few professors should know dozen
langusgsS-ds2d OF alive The monaSuc
idea Of education has been cherished too
long Woman learns concretely, putting
lessons into pracuce-learrs to DO by
doing ,-.,--, =.
cilitiss are those where women are most
active Illits-acy is largest where wo-
men have least power and grows less
where they vote. Half a million of Ameri-
cas- children are illiterate and two mil
lion are earning their living. We cannot
boast OF opportunities while we have TO
admit such a disgrace.
"School people have misunderstood club
interference either from misdirected effort
or unfortunate personalities. Mothers are
the natural allies of the educational
forces.
Some of the things accomplished by
Women's clubs are: Travelling libraries,
patriotic and humane education, manual
training, domestic science, vacation
schools, play grounds, compulsory edu-
cation, child labor and pure food laws.
Juvenile courts, industrial schools. school
rooms decorated, art and crafts revived,
scientific temperance. INSTRUCTION, yhigher
salaries and pensions for teachers.
women do not stop with finding in club
work opportunity for their own develop
ment. The heart of the movement is use
fulness and unseltish services.
THE buildings men raise reflect the
spirit of the time. AS the Acropolis tells
of the religion and art of Greece, the col
osseum and the forum of the Roman
spirit of war, of law and of imperialism,
the cathedrals of the middle ages OF
| church dominance, so the lofty buildings
CT our own country typify commercial as
piration The twentieth century spirit
should be exempliied by the school house;
not immense structures where the child is
lost sight of within and crowded into
the street without planned not only for
intellectual culture, but with their books
and pictures, Fairgrounds, gymnasiums
and gardens, departments of manual
training, domestic science, sewing and
halls for the use of the people, planned
as so for growth, where the learner will
prove that real education is life "
Eight meetings of subdepartments this
morning and a monster rally of all the
teachers at Temple auditorium this aft
ernOOn will close the business sessions of
the National Educational association.
For almost another week the teachers
will be in the tender mercies of the local
entertainment committee, which has pro-
vided excursions and side trips sufficient
to keep the pedagogues hustling till next
Thursday.