The Dickinson press., 1912-03-30
TEACHERS TO
MOTT IN 1919
Miss, ,Steake New President. Over
25o At Dickinson. Addresses
from Best Educators in
State of No Oak.


for order at ten O'Clock Friday morning,
the high school auditorium was filled
with educators, about two hundred and
fifty being in attendance. Superin-
tendents were present from Stark, Bill
lings, Dunn, Adams. -Hettinger. Morton
and Burleiah and the morning regis
tration showed 90 from Stark county:
55 from Billings 10 from Dunn II from
Morton;4 from Hettinger: from Bur-
leigh. 2 from Grand Forks; each from
Adams and Cass and l from Canada.
Upon the rostrum we're President Mary
Nolan, Vice President M. Tschida of
Glen Ullin and Secretary P. S. Berg.
A chorus of girls from the grades.
Miss Mum accompanying and direct
ing, sang and in response to storm
Of applause gave second number.
Supt. Bere's address of welcome was
received with marked attention and
was the subject Of much favorable
comment. On the subject of True
Education" he said in part:
formerly education was considered
knowledge of books and the college
graduate was, accordingly. deemed the
we'll educated man. But opinions
change and people are coming to have
broader view Of education-that it is
the ability to do we'll what you ought
to do or as I'm engineer defined it
being onto your job. Measured by
these tests many a lawyer, doctor,
preacher or other college graduate is
a failure and many another like
Lincoln. is we'll educated man"
THE idea that children are to receive
book education that they may escape
hard work is wrong. Boys and girls
need work. We pamper them too much
and the result is the boys become
cigarette tiends and the girls dolls and
butterflies; nor is it the thing to bring
up boys to work and girls to idleness
and pleasure. Teach them all the dignity
and honor of work and to respect man.
ual labor for manual labor's sake. 1t
gives bone and sinew. and work we'll
done by one onto his job makes good
citizen.
mot all tuning forks respond to the
same vibrations; box elder tree we'll
cared for makes good box elder tree
but never q maple. ash or elm. A
crow bar is useful implement as is
also coal shovel but the former would
find no place in wireless apparatus nor
could the latter take the place of the
handspring of watch. If, according
to Puddin' Head Wilson. no two thumb
marks are the same.. it is futile to try
to fit all boys and girls in the same
world. Their natures are not all at
tuned to the same pitch nor can they
all be properly developed mentally
along the same lines. Study each
child and strive for individual COM
pleteness and exactness.
mo man is bigger than his work.
Large things done in large way
makes the doer great. Teach the chill
dren to aim high, to produce more and
distribute less and the inmates of
jails. work houses and penitentiaries
will become fewer
Mr.. Berg in welcoming the visitors
said: mo set of people are more
hospitable than the cowboys and our
people have imbibed much of this
spirit. We are glad to see you all here
and offer you the freedom of the city. -
To Supt. James A. Kitchen of Bill
lings county was assigned "How to
Teach Reading with Expression and
his hearers were well satisfied that he
knew what he was talking about. His
illustrations showed him an elocution-
ist as we'll as teacher and were
thoroughly enjoyed. He would have a
we'll trained mind. body in the best
of physical condition with defects cor
rected. Essentials to good reading are
familiarity with the lines incubation.
emphasis, pronunciation, enunciation.
quality of tone. an understanding and
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