The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-10-22
TEACHERS
CONVENTION.
Being Held at Burlington
This Week
WELCOMED YESTERDAY
President Thomas Of The Association 4
Presiding Over the Convention,
Which Is Largely At
tended.

Burlington, Oct. q. The convention
Of the Vermont State Teachers associa.
ton opened in the Edmunds high school
yesterday afternoon with about 900
members in attendance The convention
viii last three days and the committee
Of arrangements expects to be called
upon to find accommodations for 1000
delegates.
President Isaac Thomas, principal Of
the Rutland high school, was in the chair
yesterday afternoon. The session open
ed with devotional exercises conducted
by Rev. c. J. Staples Of the Unitarian
church. Addresses were delivered by
Mayor James Burke for the city, VI A,
Bullard for the Burlington schools, and
President NJ. II. Buckham for the uni
versity Of Vermont. President Thomas
responded for the association. Prof. Ed
ward l. Thorndyke, teachers college, CO.
lumbia university, New York, delivered
an address on "The Termination Of
Education" Ia the evening the priHci-
pal address was by George KEENAN, on
THE Japanese at Home.0
President Isaac Thomas introduced
Mayor Burke, who rendered a welcome
in behalf Of the city. The mayor stated
that be would hand the city over to the
schoolmasters and schoolmistresses; 1t
was theirs while they remained. This
Is the most important association, intel.
leetually and otherwise, that meets In
~. - - "a
say too much in your BEHALF
V. A. Bullard, chairman Of the city
school commissioners, was next intro
dnced. He stated that ii was the desire
Of Burlington to stand In the very front
ranks Of progressive education and that
its citizens wanted to make ii a mecca
Of education He thought that the early
ideas Of Vermont educators still pre-
vailed, which was best for the schools
IF / were a teacher" he said, u would
never stop kicking until got more pay"
He thought that the teaching of manual
trades would soon he added to the cmrri-
calnm and that that branch Of learning
would grow to be as important as that
obtained from text books.
President AZ III Buekham extended
welcome In behalf of the university of
Vermont He stated that one Of the
school troubles at present IN the public
schools was the lack of preparation given
the student in English. He referred to
the subject Of a paper recently read by
professor Of Yale university on aWhat
Can We Do to Keep College Graduates
from being Hliterater He stated that
at the university the faculty considered
the teachers Of the state part Of the
teachers staf, ID a sense. for If they did
not do their work well. the staff at the
university would be handicapped in do.
ing their part well, He believed that
the time would come when the relation
between the university and the state
teachers would be much more intimate.
One of the principal duties Of the uni.
versity is to fit teachers for the second
ary and primary schools In his iudp-
ment, the preparation of teachers FOR the
lower grade schools Was more essential
than for the high schools. It takes all
orr learning to make things plain. 1--WE
of the university he continued "feeI
the necessity of great common solidar
ity Of education We are all engaged
IN one common work and ought to have
one ambition"