The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-05
President Cooks Address.

checked in the future"
He asserted that more real democracy
is needed.
President Cooks Address.
The next number on the program was
an able address on The Tendencies of
Modern Education" by President John
Cook of DeKaIb, Illinois. It was ir
part:
Il think we are often called a prac-
tical people. We do not practice what
very good way to bring UP a child is
to sometimes walk that way yourself.
I'VE have to be told of our faults
especially If they are splendid faults
We have f1amboyant spirit undoubt-
edly.
Education is civilization in the pro-
cess of becoming. The fundamental
necessity is law and order.
''The moral problem is the essential
problem in our modern education.
"I mean by our modern education the
education of the last two or three CEN
turies when we have become conscious
of our problems. We believe that every
child must come into her inheritance Of
culture.
WAS there ever a finer and nobler
idea that ever entered the heart of man
than that of democracy? Democracy is
impressing upon us the fact of the in
dividuaIs in our community.
s'Then there is the great industrial
movement The great Industrial enter
prise has brought US more and more to
the idea of universal education.
There is the great philanthropic con-
ception which also tends towards uni
versal education.
Another tendency for education is on
account of its psychological effects
Psychology is now in the minds OF al
II ost everyone Our education is becom-
irg psychological. Il tries to find a
definition of education. Education is SO
comprehensive in its sweep that We
hesitate to clothe it in any colnbina-
ton of words. 1t is difficult to define.
THE trouble with us in our educa-
tion is that we are pulling apart
thought and will. Prof. James says that
every thought should show some ex-
preston by the will.
What is our method to be? 1t is
the method of the child that we seek.
If we only knew the law in the case
and could look behind the mask which
tie child wears. We know under the
impulsion of the scientific idea that
there is a law in the case. If there is
any task N the world that is delicate
is the finding of the scientific law. Mod
ern education is endeavoring to find the
! law in the case. Unless we know the
processes of the child we certainly can
not look into the life of the child.
1.-The next tendency is towards So
Geological ideas.
1T tries to give to the mind a So
Geological fillirg.
I'VE say now that the modern world
must live socially. The tendency is to
analize tho sociological feeling 1t is not
the intellect that rules the world after
ali but the heart. It is the social whole
that is the true Individual
Gov. Stubbs Talked Again Today.
Governor Stubbs was at this juno
ture called on for another speech. He
said: II am very glad to have an op-
portunity to explain one of the things
oct nj T that
| thought the teachers in Kansas do
more work for the money than any
group of people. in the United States,
and I believe it is true.
you can takeyt the men who work
| on the streets and average up the
wages they receive and you will find
| that the teachers get less money. I
| don't say the laborerS get too much
money, but the teachers get too little.
'I want to appeal to the men and
| women of Kansas who have charge of
| the boys and girls who will make
Kansas great, to realize their respon-
sibility. L want them to realize that
they play an important part in the
government. On the public schools
rests the future of our country.
IT think there are a good many
| things taught in Kansas that are not
practical, and I believe that the things
| that will be used in life should be
| taught The tendency is in that direc-
ton.
IT want to encourage every man
| and woman who teaches boys and
girls to live lives that will set an eX-
ample. If you chew tobacco or smoke
| cigars, if I were on the school board I
would fire you
Il don't think that this expense of
maintaining public schools in Kansas
| is anything as compared with the BEN
ef1ts we get from these schools. 1t
| has brought back ten, twenty and a
hundred fold to the people who have
spent their money. 1t is the best in
| vestment a man can make for the
state.
Impress upon the children high
| ideals, and teach them to do some
thing for their country and great state.
| I hope that you will go away from
| here with the determination to make
| the school system in Kansas the
| greatest in the WOrld.'