The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-08
TITLE COVERS
A WIDE FIELD
The Rural Teacher, the Corn
Doctor and Dog Trainers
Are professors"
lot EDUCATIONAL SHOT
CANADIAN COLLEGE PRESIDENT
MAKES EPIGRAMMATIc SPEECH.

Denver, July National suicide
lies in the direction of belittling the
teachers"
IF the future is to be satisfying as a
nation the teacher must be regarded as
a leader and not a teacher of letters"
"Starve the colleges; starve the peo-
pie"
This advice from James w. Robert |
son, president of Macdonald college, !
ste Ann de Bellevue, Quebec.
And alsO-"Wnats the use? The ru-
raj teacher who hasn't even the a b |
c's of education is called a professor |
and so is the corn doctor, the dog train !
er and clown"
1T doesn't make any difference !
whether it's a university, a college or a |
normal school Tt is what is fraught |
that does She business"
This last from Henry G.. Williams /
dean of the state normal school at /
Athens, O.
Expert Opinion.
These were some Of the hot shots /
thrown at the members of the National /
Educational association today by two !
leaders in the work. Mr.. Robertson
strOve to tell the educators what they
are thought of in Canada. Mr. VIII /
liams told what he thought of the fine
line drawn by some educators between /
the university and the normal school as I
place to make teachers.
Mr. Robertson spoke this afternoon |
before a general session of the associa- /
ton in the Auditorium. He said in eff /
feet, that the agricultural schools F.
must be more closely allied with the ru- |
raj schools in general to bring about the !
desired end of keeping the boys on the F.
farm.
Mr.. Robertson also spoke in the !
morning before the department of ru-
raj and agricultural education, and h
voiced much the same sentiment there. !
He declared that to make the boys stay
on the farm the farm must be made fit
to stay upon. And there must be as
much education for the girl as for the
boy.
Enthusiasm for Normal Schools.
Mr. Williams wrought himself up to
an enthusiastic pitch when he spoKs OF
the normal school as a place for train
ing teachers, and the outcome of his
address was the declaration that the
name doesn't make the school a place
for the training Of teachers any more
than the term professor" makes an
educator. He summed up his argU-
ment in the second finding OF the report
of the committee on normal schools, /
which holds that the normal schools
prepare teachers for the entire public
seTvice-eIementary and secondary"
Allegations of allegiance to the book
trust" cropped out this afternoon in
the campaign for president of the as
ISOLATION when it became known that
J. Y. Joyner, superintendent of the
South Carolina schools, would be a
candidate. Some OF DR.. JOyner's friends
announced that their fight would be
against the book trust and their efforts
would be to defeat Ben Blewett, super
intendent of schools of st. Louis and
j. Il. Phillips, superintendent of the
schools OF Birmingham, Ala.
There are still one or two candidates
to be heard from, though they have
thus far declined to permit their names
to be discussed. The failure of the
project to place Elmer E. Brown. Unit |
ed States commissioner Of education, in
the presidency is said to be due to the
book trouble" Mr.. Brown declines
the honor rather than become identified
in a fight with the sO-called octopus"
The election of officers will take place
tomorrow at noon.