Jefferson jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 1907-1926, 1913-03-13

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Noted men and women educa-
tors from all over the nation met
at Philadelphia Feb. "a. The
several thousand who were in at
tendance were heartily welcom-
ed by Mayor Blankenburg, who
said in part: Tt is an unusual
pleasure to greet such a distin-
guished body of educators. You
are doubly welcome to this city.
Philadelphia is the mother city
of the Republic and Of 1ndepen-
dence."
Mrs, Blankenburg and DR..
Brumbaugh. the superintendent
of the schools of the city, gave
hearty welcome. The editor of
the Ohio Educational Monthly
responded with words Of appre-
citation, followed by these re.
marks:
eff the public schools can be
divorced permanently from the
grating politician they will do
ably the work they are intended
to do, and prove the backbone of
the future civilization of the
United States"
Wealth and ari stocratic
birth" he said, count no more
than brains, character and hard
work. AS a matter of fact, the
latter usually win over the form
er There is no limit to what
education will do for child in
this country
The programmes furnished by
state and city superintendent
and presidents of colleges.
p. w. Horn of Houston, dis
cussed Team Play" within the
system and made the point, that
jealousy and distrust between
individual teachers and .uperin.
tendents or principals be elimi-
mated to obtain the best results
Of educational effort. He de-
clared, also, that salaries must
be adequate, SO that the teach
ers' minds might be free to con,
centrate on their work"
Men of national reputation as
educators were the speakers at
the night sessions. DR.. G. II.
Judd Of the University of Chica-
go, delivered an address. DR.. N
| G. Schaffer State Superinten-
dent of Pennsylvania, talked on
the undesirable in teaching"
THE need OF dreams" was the
subject of Joseph Lee Of Boston
The last was but plea for the
cultivation of Imagination in
children.
DR.. p. p. Claxton. nationa
commissioners spoke on:
"Attainable Ideals His talk
was optimistic, After showing
that the number OF illiterate per-
sons in the ~. S. had fallen, in
the last 40 years from 20 to Z
per cent, he ventured to express
the hope that in ten years ILL
teracy would be zero quantity.
Among the whites, it has drop
ped from II to per cent, among
the colored, from 95 to 80 per
cent. He continued: I'VE still
have a problem of iliteracy be-
fore us, as there are 5. 500, 900
illiterate men and women in this
country. Nearly 100000 men
vote who can neither read nor
write. Scientific management
in the operation of public schools
was urged by many speakers.
Prof. Hams of Harvard, w. c..
Bagley of the University of Hi.
nois, were of the opinion that
the modern school was chiefly in
need of efficiency of operation.
Time and energy must be con
served by teachers and pupils. -.
Prof. Yocum, of the University
of Pennsylvania, criticised the
unnecessary and immaterial de-
tails crammed into children.
The details most useful, he
said, were those which are many
sided in their useful relationships
}. II. Francis, Superintendent
of schools, Los Angeles, Cal,
scored the yound men who went
to college, simply because it was
a comfortable place in which to
take ones leisure. In advocating
the penny lunches as they are
now established in his city he
said:
I am convinced it would pay
any Board of Education TO pro-
vide one good meal for the child
rem coming from certain sec
tons. 1t would be real economy.
1t doesn { pay to try to teach
starving children. Since we es.
tablished these penny lunches
the standard of learning in all
the schools where they have
been installed has gone up anna
zingly.
If school is not pleasure