The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-08
MUST UPHOLD THE
TEACHERS DIGNITY
Leaders in Educational Work
Fire Hot Shots Into Denver
n. Il. A. Convention.
ABUSE OF THE TITLE
OF PROFESSOR" NOTED
Farmers Given a Roast for Their
Alleged Stinginess and
Lack of Breadth.

DENVER, July 10 National sui
eide lies in the direction of belittline
the teachers
"If the fu5ure is TO be satisfying
as a nation. the teacher must be re-
garded as lcader, and not a teacher
of letters
"Starve the colleges, starve the
people"
This advice from James W. Robert
son. president Of Macdonald college,
Ste. Ann dc Bellevue, Quebec.
Aud also
What's s use
"The rural teacher who hasn't even
the \, b, C's of education is called
professor and so is the corn
doctor, the dog trainer and clown
SIT doesn't make any difference
whether it s a university, a college OF
normal school, it is what is taught
that docs the business.
This last from Henry G.. Williams,
dean Of the State Normal school of
Athens, Ohio.
Plenty of Excitement.
These were some Of the hot shots
thrown al thc members of the National
Education association today by two
leaders in The work. Mr.. Robertson
strove TO tell the educators what they
are thought of in Canada. Mr.. Will
liams told what he thought of the fine
line drawn by some educators between
the university and the normal school
as q place 10 make teachers.
Mr.. Robertson spoke this afternoon
before a general session Of the asso
citation in The auditorium. He said in
effect that the agricultural schools
must be more closely allied with the
rural schools IN general 10 bring about
the desired end of keeping the boys
on the farm.
Mr.. Robertson also spoke in The
morning before the department of
rural and agricultural education. and
he voiced much the same sentiment
there He declared that 10 make the
boys STAY on the farm the farm musr
he made ht 10 stay upon, And there
must be as much education for the girl
as for the boy.
Name Does Not Count.
Mr. Williams wrought himself up to
an enthusiastic pitch when he spoke of
the normal school as 4 place of train
ing for teachers, and the outcome of
his address was the declaration that
the name doesn't make the school 4
place for the training of teachers any
more than the term professor
makes an educator. He summed up
the report of the committee on normal
schools, which holds that ''the normal
schools prepare teachers for the en-
tire public scrVlcc-clementary and
secondary -
Allegations of allegiance TO The
book trust cropped out tins after
noon in the campaign for president Of
the association, when it became known
that j. Y. Ioyner, superintendent of
the South Carolina schools, would be
Il candidate. Some of DR.. Joyner' s
would be against The book trust, and
their efforts would be 10 defeat Ben
Blewctt. superintendent Of schools Of
ST. Louis. and j. II Phillips, superin-
tendent of the schools of Birmingham.
Ala.
There are stlll ono or two candi
dates to be heard from, though they
have thus far declined to permit their
names 10 be discussed. The failure of
the project to place Il mer T.. Brown.
United States commissioner Of cduca-
ton. in thc presidency, is said to be
due TO the "book trouble. Mr..
Brown declines the honor rather than
become identified IN Il fight with the
so-callcd OCTOPUS.
The election Of officers will take
place tomorrow at noon.
Charges Against Farmers.
Pocketbooks glued shut: that dan
gerous ''httlc education -: the fear
that colleges rob the farms-these
were some Of the charges made against
the farmers of America by Mr.. Rob
ertsou in his morning speech.
''And IL is not a matter of a little
education being dangerous. said the
speaker: .'it s the vast remaining ig-
uorarcc that hurts the farmer Of to-
day. He wants little education for
his son. but ho doesn I want TO pay.
He doesn want more education he
cause he thinks his son Will leave him,
This is where he is wrong, because If
the son knew moro, the farmer < acres
would be worth more.
Dick J. Crosby Of the United States
department Of agriculture. pleaded for
closer relation between the rural
ed to shift the emphasis from the three
"r's' TO good cooking and the ability
10 make fences where required.
| Il. 7. Fairchild, superintendent of
schools Of Kansas. Ashley Van Storm
of the Iowa Agricultural school, and
NJ. j, Abbey OF the North Dakota Ag-
ricultural school, were also speakers.
The old controversy between the uni
versitv and the normal school as to
whether the latter is able TO fit men
and women for teaching came up
again in the meeting of the norma! de
partment,
Samuel Il, Harwood, superintendent
of the training school in the Illinois
Normal school. Carbondalc, ILL.,. took up
the defense OF normal training with
the assertion that training and obser-
walton will give to Il prospective
teacher the necessary foundation for
teachers education. G. b. Robert
sou Of the New York Normal school,
Cortland, n, Y. also spoke on this
side Of the question.
The departments of music, school ad-
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