The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1912-11-29
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Than girl. Then please don't tell him so.
We wish every teacher in Sc
ward county could have attended
the Fiftieth Anniversary of the
State Teachers Association, held
at Topeka, November 7th and 9th.
The program began promptly at
300 o'clock, with President Wat
ers, of the State Agricultural Col
lege also president of the s. T. A..
in the chair, with an organ reCi-
tai by Dean Horace Whitehouse,
of Washburn College; where Miss
Maurine Long 10 attending school.
Then followed an address: Nor
al Stimulus, by Reuben Post
l.. l.. D., of Louisville,
Kentucky. This address was one
of the best given at the meeting. -,
He declared that dunn brutes
are among our greatest school
masters; that serving others is one
of the things that develops will
power. Moral stamina must be
the end of all education; no edu-
cation is efficient unless IL deyel.
ops a lesson of service to others.
More teachers and pupils are
failures from moral than from 10.
tellectual deficiency. The way to
attack a failure is first on the NOR
al side. No nation can live on
former accomplishment. God
calls on us all to make good all
the time; if we fail he summons
others to take our place. AS Walt
Whitman states; The whole
theory of the universe is directed
unerriDgly to one single individ-
ual-YOU. No other nation could
have sung Americas song of
Democracy:
Stuffed with the stuff that is coarse and
Stuffed with the stun that Is iine"
The east and the west have We'd In singing
a new song and holding up as new ideal
=" =. :. :. love that lives
On the error it forglves"--
in teaching each mother to sing TO her child;
Thou art one with the world though love
thee the best
And to save thee from pain must save all
the rest.
Thou wilt weep and thy mother must dry
The tears of the world lest her darling should
cry"
Truly hath the poet said:
Love Is the greatest thing In the world"
Thursday evenings entertain
ment was provided as a compli-
ment to the members of the Kan
sas State Teachers Association, by
the Commercial Club of Topeka.
We all had the pleasure of hear
ing a grand operate concert. We
now understand why Washburn
College will teach no Rag Time
Thursday afternoon DR.. David
Eugene Smith, of Columbia Uni
versity; gave a splendid talk on
How to Teach Arithmetic" DR..
Smith is the author of our new
text book in arithmetic. He
showed how the x-y-z's of algebra
are breaking into the every day
work of the tradeSmen and bust
ness, and then taking up the sub
iect of teaching mathematics he
told teachers how to create an in
terest in arithmetic and algebra
by introducing local problems, in
which the pupils were interested
out of school hours.
Prof. j. w. Searson, of our
own Kansas State Agricultural
College and author of our new
readers. who was to give an ad-
dress on the subject, How to
Teach reading, gave his place CD
the program to Commissioner
Claxton.
This was followed by an address
by DR.. Wm. NJ. Davidson, super
intendent of the public schools IN
d. G., and formerly
superintendent of the schools of
Topeka. Superintendent David
son said: "One Generation Sow
eth and Another Reapeth. ,"
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