The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-03-17
OFFICERS MeEl5.
Representation Of School Officers and
Teachers Met for the Annual
Session.

H.
Session.
County superintendent Brown was
OIL greeted by a fairly good attendance Of
the county school officers of the rural
schools of the county, and also some
0 of the teachers this morning when. he
called the session to order at the
court house. Unfortunately there was
not many of the speakers present who
were assigned on the program. State
Superintendent Ustrud was unable ID
d reach Mitchell for the meeting.
DR.. Samuel Weir, of Dakota Wes-
leyan University, occupied a portion
of the morning session by a friendly
talk with the officers Inc farmers con-
corning the relation of the hey and
} the farm. DR.. Weir said that he had
been raised on a farm himself and
knew just about what a boy had t.
} contend with. He urged the men
of the farm to take their boys into
their full confidence. to make them
} feel that they were as deeply inter-
ested in the success of The farm as
the father. DR.. Weir sand that many
mistakes were made by the farmer in
} in not giving the boy an equal chance
and to make him feel that he wa
estranged from the main fea ures of
J the farm. He believed that q greater
recognition IN this direction would
easily solve the problem of keeping
the boy on the farm-- in fact he did
} not think the boy could be driven
from the farm under the more pleas
ant conditions.
" THE Use and Abuse of the School
Library was discussed by Mrs. l..
G. Stage and N. NJ. Rosenquist. The
proper car Of the school house was
up Tor a general discussion in which
many present took part.
The District School Officers Meet
ing called to meet at the court house
Monday morning and afternoon by
Superintendent o. E. Browne, was
especially significant in many phases
of the work taken up and the import
ance of the gathering in some of the
things that will grow out of it in the
future. The forenoon session was
devoted to a general discussion of
school matters and was entered into
by a number of the school officers
who were present.
The afternoon meeting was the
occasion of a very large gathering of
school officers, teachers, and patrons,
the courtroom being crowded to its
fullest capacity.
The first speaker was Governor
Robert s. Wesley, who spoke on the
general subject of education. The adj
dress Of the governor was very well
received and evinced a close apprecia-
ton of the educational situation, es-
pecially in rural districts. He develop
ed many of the evident defects and
the methods of and duty of the people
to meet and remedy them.
The governor laid especial empha-
sis In his address upon the respon-
sibility of the people in maintaining
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bear to this fundamental principle of
the government. The responsibility
of the parent was brought out by Mr..
Vessey as being equal or even greater
than that of the teacher. He urged
ESPECIALLY that there should be the
heartiest sort of cooperation between
the parent and the teacher for the
greatest development Of the child.
Ahis feeling of mutual help, augu-
mented by the authority of the home,
will do much and make for the inn
provement of the pupil in the school.
Governor Wesley condemned the
parent who seemingly takes more in
terest in his fancy stock than in his
children and urged that we all spur
our children on to greater activity
and zeal in school work by visitation
and sympathetic interest. He attribut-
ed much of the reported failures in
class work to the lack of proper at
%tention and support at home. In this
connection he expressed the belief
that is now entertained by leading
educators that often the child is suf-
fering from physical disabilities of
which the parent or teacher is ignor-
ant and on this account makes but
intolerable class records. For the
mental detectives, the governor stat
ed that the state owed a duty for their
education and should put forth eff
forts that they might develop the best
that in them lies.
For the success of our children and
the highest development of mind and
character the executive laid the re-
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