The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1911-08-18


gave us a talk on "Retardation of
Pupils in Our Public Schools" The
lantern slides were all views taken
from city schools More than half
the children were behind their grades
according to their ages. Every nor
NAL child who attends school practi-
cally every day should finish the
grades in their thirteenth year. Now
who Is to blame If they do not? The
state superintendent says that we
have one Of the very best courses of
study in the United States, and that
other states are copying it. So it
cannot be chargeable to the course of
study, Away in the background looms
up the shadow-the intellectual teach
err, who often receives higher salary
than the 'effectual' teacher because he
or she knows how to run bluff on
school boards and work the public.
Lincoln said "You can fool PART of
the people ALL of the time and ALL
of the people PART of the time, but
you can't fool ALL of the people ALL
of the time" A better day is coming
when efficient trained teachers shall
have charge Of our schOols-men and
and women who will teach for other
considerations than merely that Of
money-teach because they are born
to teach-because God calls them to
teach. Then will the children have
their educational rights, Then can
we truly say that we live for our
children. 0. II. Benson of the Unit
ed States department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. g., followed Prof.
JosselYn with an address on 1.-THE
Four-square Education" Prof. Ben
son is a fluent speaker-we never
heard a better. He was with US at
our last conference and we hope he
may be with us again next year. He
is an inspiration to any body of
teachers and is especially interested
in the correlation of the common
school branches with bringing
the school into the home and the
home into the school, especially In
the rural schools, lie brougt with
him samples of work done IN Iowa
under his supervision Kansas will
have better schools because this man
has talked to US. Wednesday morn
ing, August 9th, found US all at 8
O'Clock sharp seated in the Library
or Fairchild Hall, as it is sometimes
called. e. L. Holton, Professor OF
rural education extentiOn department
Of state Agricultural college opened
the mornings program with most
excellent paper on How to Make
The Rural School A Real Social Cen
ter" Supt. Mccoy followed with a
paper on "The Small Graded School
And The Small High School," Supt.
Lee Harrison of Wellington then read
his paper; Glow The Number of Ru-
raj School Graduates May Be Increas-
ed" Again the efficient teacher play
ed the important part, Last but not
least on the mornings program the
county superintendent from Paris,
Illinois, gave US his paper on "The IF
icient Teacher" We VIII give some
thoughts from this paper later. After
dinner we we're given demonstration
by the college in, Forestry" Corn
And Small Grain Judging" and in
"Stock Judging" and made trip to
the experiment fields. In the even.
ing Supt. Brown Of Paris, ILL.,, gave
us an excellent address on 1.-THE New
Country Life" We all enjoyed it so
much that we wanted to move right
out into the country and begin the
new country life. o. H. Benson of
the United States Department of
Agriculture closed the evenings pro-
gram with an address on Teaching
Agriculture and Home Economics by
Correlation Agriculture is in the
air. 1t will be taught in all the
schools In Kansas this coming year.
A great work Is In the hands OF our