Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-24
RELIGION NEEDED
IN SCHOOLS
Minnesota Professor, in Address
to Teachers, DepIores Lack
of Spiritual Belief
INSTITUTE ENDS SESSIONS
Kansas City Educator Calls for
Conservation of Pupils
Mental Energy
INSTITUTE ENDS SESSIONS

The eighteenth annual session of the
Southern California Teachers associa-
ton closed yesterday in Temple audi
torium with one of the most impressive
programs of the entire week. j. II
Greenwood superintendent of schools
iii Kansas City, was the principal
speaker, choosing for a subject THE
Automatic Element in Education
THE first necessity in teaching" de-
clared Mr.. Greenwood, 'fs to scgregate
al ideas and impulses which should
be wholly automatic from ideas which
are real intellectual forces. To keep
in the background of ones mind the
knowledge which comes intuttiVelY
from the sense of sight or sound is to
leaVa Just so much more mental fore
ground for the vital elements of the
thought world. The free, eXhilarating
walk of one whose thoughts are i'm
mersed in some all inspiring project is
Wholly automatlc-for if one were
wasting mental energy in the concen-
tration of ones mind on the facilities
of ones feet, there would be little in
tellectual force left for the inspira-
tional things of life AS the child Is
taught so will he grow; thus it is for
the teacher to guide him along the
submerging to the subjective mind all
those things which l have termed as
automatic"
SPEAKS FOR RELIGION IN SCHOOLS
Following Mr.. Greenwood was an ad-
dress on Religious and Moral Training
in the Public schools" by DR.. George
L. James of Minnesota Mr.. James
protested against the lack of spiritual
infi~ence in the educational institu-
tions of the country.
Because in one small town there
may be six c,lIrch spires all pointing
different road to heaven to those who
congregate below is no reason for elm
mating religious training from our
schools" he argued 1T is not exact
ly religious teaching that is needed,
but a religious attitude. | once visit
ed a certain university in the Missis-
sippi valley and found, to my amaze
Tnent, that out of every hundred pro-
fessors only one believed in the inn
mortality of the soul. l say it is nee
essary to have a firm and far-reachng
faith--a faith that does not come of
knowledge, but of spiritual belief and
religious attitude. The modern ten
dency in the scientific world trends to-
ward the religious attitude, as is shown
by Mr.. Draper's change. Of titfe for
his book originally called Religion
Against Science
CHANGES NAME OF BOOK
Lately, twenty-five years after it
was first published, he re-edited it,
giving it a significant new name:
Science Against Theology. Today
science constantly grows more re-
ligious, and religion grows more scien-
tific, so that with the aid of the schools
we may one day reach the place where
we do not use one set of words for
material things md another for reli-
gious matters"
Fred G Ellis closed the morning ses-
sion with a vocal solo
In the afternoon a specially pre-
pared concert formed the closing fea-
ture of the institute.
Today the yearly business of the as
sociation will be transacted and the
the session actually closed until next
year.
An appeal was made to the teachers
yesterday to send as large a delega-
tion as possible to the next national
educational association. This will meet
in San Francisco, July and 0, 1911, and
IS the first n. e. A. to be presided
over By a woman. Mrs. Ella Flagg
Young, city superintendent of schools
IN Chicago, is the president.