New-York tribune., 1909-07-06
EDUCATIONISTS MEET
Plea for Equal Suffrage an DenUer
The Presidents ADDRESS.

Denver, July 5.-Woman suffrage to the fore
for moment in the National Educational Asso-
citation to-day when John Macdonald, editor of
''The Western School Journal" of Topeka. Kan.
took up for the movement before the National
council of education
Mr.. Macdonald said in part:
In Kansas ffty-1ve of approximate one
county % n are woe1 o let mo1 1
than half the county schools of his state be ruled
more than ne but he is not willing to admit that
she knows enough to vote for the incumbent OF
Schools Pennsylvania, said he believed that
superintendents should be appointed by the boards
of directors of counties and removed If found in
competent He said he did not believe In the cleo
the school system.
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president Of Colum-
oa University. made a few remarks before the
department of Indian education.
Inc general sessions opened tonight In the Den
yer Auditorium. Ten thousand of the twenty thou
sand persons here to attend the meetings incident
to the convention were present L D. Harvey, of
stout Institute, Menomonee. Wis, president of the
National Educational Association, in his annual
address said in part:
The central thought in the minds Of most people
VINO are advocating industrial education is educa-
ZION for skill in Industrial processes but it must
De very much more than this If it IS toe occupy
It's proper place in our educational system. In
dustral education has for its purpose the acquir-
less extent related to Industrial conditions. proc
industrial affairs involving the gaining of some
sshll IN the use of such knowledge and the secur-
ing of mental, aesthetic ethical training
through the acquisition and of the knowledge
Except very limited opportunities for instruction
leading to skill in industrial processes practically
nothing has been done in this country for the de-
yelopment of industrial education outside the col
lege or university. Material for instruction pur-
into teachable form and made available within the
range @ OF pupils capacity for the thousands who
q ar o. a. al Wit no
whatever directly fitting them for the activities
Industrial education important for girls well
as for boys, not only for the girls who engaged
In industrial pursuits outside the homo, but for
girls who find their work in the home. The woman
is me size partner with the man in the home as
business organization He furnishes the funds
them and must be traned for efficency in their
proper use. No development of industrial educa-
ton VIII be adequate that does not make as large
provision for special training for girls as it does
The demand for industrial education is demand
Tor a continuation of the evolutionary process to
appeal to hundreds of thousands of youth Who now
i Ieaxe school because they do not find IN It that that
wI!ich appeals to them, or because its work does
not not appeal to their parents It will hold them
ing types OF public schools can offer the greater
me gam because side by side with the new type
OF work the best Of the old will be continued
A preparatory course to the Presidency is not the
object of the public school system of the United
States. or, rather it should be- in the opinion
of leaders of the National Council of Education in
their discussion to-day of conditions that must
rule the twentieth century. Edwin G. Cooley, for
merly superintendent of the Chicago public
schools now the president of a Boston book
Germ, led the discussion of what the American
schoolboy needs. He said in part:
While it is the privilege of every American born
boy TO try to become President of the United
States, II does not follow that it becomes the bust
of the public school system fit him for
Iaborers. mechanics, artisans, something besides
President. and right they neglected
1t has come to pass that we are educating about
two million boys for Presidency and about
thirty million for nothing, because our schools
cramming things in their heads which will be of
use TO them when they begin work in the factory
the farm
Ten departmental sessions, in addition to the
general session of the National Education Associa
ton tonight occupied members of the association
to-day. This morning Che departments Of kinder
garten school administration, manual training,
business rural and agricultural. physical and
Indian education held sessions. Elmer e Brown
was the principal speaker before the kindergart-
ners. He was followed by Frank 3. Dwyer, of
Cleveland. and George NJ. Forbes of Rochester.
Tonight President Butler of Columbia was the
principal speaker before the general session of the
Educational Association John ". Abercrombie,
president Of the University of Alabama, Tusca-
Ioosa Ala. spoke Ethics in Civil Life Wilbur
F Ciordy. of Springfield Mass, made an address
on education and its reference to international
peace.
Joseph Swain president OF Swarthmore College,
was the principal speaker before the Religious
Education Association this afternoon.
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