The San Francisco call., 1910-12-29
TEACHERS NEED
/ HIGHER IDEALS
Kansas City Superintendent
Scores Those Who Act
Merely by Rule


Every one must be larger than hi.
job declared Superintendent James
NJ. Greenwood Of Kansas City, in hi.
address at the San Francisco teachers
institute yesterday morning, and this
applies particularly to teachers" He
then went on to score those who con.
formed merely to the letter of teaching
and failed to grasp their high mis-
sion and tremendous opportunities
particularly those who taught by the
clock" This was. the closing period
Of his lecture on THE Automatic EIe
ment in Education. He said in part
teacher of genuine skill can
develop ALL even the dull child; a
teacher of inferior capacity
scarcely educates the average
pupil; while a teacher of no quail
fication discourages the brightest
The teacher should be solid
geometry in the school sphere; the
teacher ought to see great units of
subject matter in the regions of
knowledge. The teacher is a stand
ing. philosophy of life.
Nothing begins ready made. The
infant has the right to eat, sleep.
to be kept clean and to cry, which
is his only means of communiea-
ton. Its nervous system is not
Nearly all work in the school
room is automatic. The child has
to be trained to do everything in
this life. It lacks self control as
way of getting information except
through the senses. OF all a child's
ideas so per cent come through the
eye; 80 per cent through the ear
and the other 10 per cent through
the other senses.
People in a climate as invigor-
ating as this are the ones that
are dominating the world. With
conditions the best and with edu-
cation and educators to help. the
people can be made to match the
soil where they live. 1 do not ex-
pect a high grade Of work from a
low grade of people.
The first speaker of the day was DIR
n. @. Gardner. head of the department
of biology. Los Angeles polytechni,
high school, who spoke on "Agricul
ture in Our City Schools" He said, il
part:
The cities are making the large
gains in population and they are
hotbeds for all manner of crime.
All forms of corruption originate
and incubate there. These must all
come TO an end. but it is not in the
history of nations that decay.
downfall and ruin has ever come
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country.
The public schools of the city
should begin to train the people
away from the city and teach them
of the wholesome. happy life which
the bright sunlight and the pure air
holds in store for them.
The complaint is made that there
is no place in the curriculum of
most schools for the study of agri-
culture. ] am rather like the col
ored woman who said her children
were "gettin bowlegged totin'
their books to school" and l think
some other less important studies
might be eliminated to make a
place for agriculture.
Mary Roberts Coolidge. formerly as
sociate professor of. sociology, Stanford
university, spoke on The Ideals oi
Amateur Singing. Classic Lullabies and
Old Time Songs She described the
faults of the average amateur singer
and said that the voice was the sleast
important qualification. They did best
she thought. with lullabies. folk song.
and ballads. To illustrate her lecture
Mrs Coolidge sang a number of these
simple songs from the French. Ger
man, Scotch and English as we'll a:
American music.
The final meeting will be held thi.
morning at 9:15 o'clock at the AIcaza,
theater