The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-02
MILLETT is
PRESIDENT
Business Meeting of Teach
ers' Association Held
This Forenoon
FAVOR SPRINGFIELD
FOR NEXT MEETING
Able Addresses in High School Build
ing and Centre Church-Reception
to Visiting Teachers Last Night
Conference Closes Today.

to Visiting Teachers Last Night
Conference Closes Today.
The school teachers, about 200 in
number. assembled again this morning
at clock in high school hall for
continuance of the conference Of
teachers Of southern Vermont, which
began yesterday. This session was
opened with music by the high school
orchestra and prayer was offered by
Rev. f. Q. =. Osgood, pastor of the
Unitarian church. President F. II. Dor
sey of Ludlow presided and introduc-
ed as >the first speaker James p. Tay-
lor. secretary of the Greater Vermont
association, whose subject was The
Teacher and the Commonwealth.
Mr. TAYLOR said that the first of
four ideas for the betterment of cdu-
cational interests in the state Is that
the work for the pupils should be prac-
teal, active and creative; they should
be doing things that count and the
teachers should try to make il sensa-
tional in the good sense of that word
by the Introduction of the element of
sport into the general game.
The second point is that vocational
education is coming to be more and
more recognized as an essential. Every
now and then some college Is reeog-
nizing this as an asset and the time is
coming when all Will insist upon it as
a necessary qualification for admis-
sion.
The pupils should be taught TO look
upon their individual careers as those
= Of public servants. He declared that
the element of organization in athlet-
les and i'm school fraternities is a STEP
I'm the right direction of general edu-
cation even though there Is trouble
at times with both of these elements
/ of school life. Even i'm their excess
they represent something that needs
development.
Lastly is the coming to a realization
of what America and Americans should
be. embodving the idea of the growth
and development of the nation and IN
dividuals
As teachers he said his auditor:
should strive TO carry out these foul
ideas which are dominant in the edu
cational world today. The revelation
of the commonwealth should be ear
ried on through all studies He urged
state. with local blue prints and the
compiling of a pictorial primer of tn,
state showing sort of a moving pictHr,
of men, scenery, industrial establish
ments and institutions, for with tn,
Youngsters, seeing j. believing. III
: wanted the Vermont laws discusse,
and studied with local applications
current events made local and Yer
mont made known to them 10y excur
sions.
Educational Foundation stones wa
the subject of the paper by Prineipa
Charles H. Morrill, Of Brigham aeade
my of Bakersfield. \ strong Will. GOO
conscience. health and culture are tn
four essentials upon which to bull,
the foundation of the modern life
Obedience is the first great lesson j
the training of the will. Moral suasiO
he had little sympathy with, declaI
ing that when a child is bent to d
right by coaxing and eaioling it mere
. " indicates that the youngster kne'
a good bargain when it was presented
A good conscience sustains a stron
viii. There is an age in the life c
a child when the value of a thing
given the importance in the child
, mind that is placed upon it by the il
, structor. He suggested that the teacl
ers practice good behavior and nc
merely talk about it,
: Health and its Importance me fORn
a subject that in the attention give
to il in the school curriculum, espeeia
~ in the rural districts, was suscept
bic to vigorous criticism and ridieu
He pictured healthy boy garbed
the school room in a heavy sweat'
and rubber boots, provided with
I dinner of mince pie, doughnuts an
/ devil 5 frosted food, with hot stol
II in front of him and a girl with a ia
d cold coughing on the back of his nee
t while the boy was studying his ply
Il iologv lesson on the Curse Of Stror
Drink. A boy that gets through seho
IS life under such conditions is bol
It healthy ard no amount of educati,
q can take it away from him.
I He believed that there could n
10 be too much learning from books. T
n filing up Of the rural districts is
business proposition and vocation
education should receive its share
attention, but not at the expense
books. lie believes in the agricultu
N high school and college so long
they DO not restrict education to tn
one particular branch of study. T
y, cry of "more boys for the farm
would sound better and be better
it were changed to "better boys
ne the farm. and this viii be in (
NJ training of children in the best qua
IN ties Of manhood and womanhood. q
ly ture is the quality of learning. and c
a ucation is of no real value witho
this garment of personality.