Arizona republican., 1913-07-09
TEACHERS HOLD
 BIG MEETING
National Education Asso- citation Gathers in An nual Session in Salt Lake City and Hears Some In- teresting Addresses

SALT LAKE, July S.-Thousands of teachers here attending the Ma tional Education Association conven-
 tion escaped the heat of the city by spending the afternoon on the shores
 of the great Salt Lake. While there
 they listened to an address by form
 CT Governor Edward H. Hook of
 Kansas It became known tonight
 that the committee on membership
 of the national council of educa tion
 will submit the name of Robert J.
 Alley, president of the University of
 Maine. to the business session on Thursday for president of the organ iZatiOn. The committees nomination is equivalent to election. Other nom nations will be Carroll G. Pearse of Milwaukee. secretary, David B. John son of South Carolina, member of the executive committee.
 The Personal Element in Our Educational Problems" was the sub ject of an address by William H. Campbell, principal of the D $. Wentworth school. Chicago, IL. this morning. Tn part he said:
 The man behind the gum is popular phrase, derived from our re- cent military experience It suggests that the personality of the soldier is greater than weapon, drill or defen- sive armour This is only the re- statement of law as old as tho hu man race, that man was made to dominate the material forces and conditions by which he is surround ed Everyone who is worth while feels this force of dominance within him striving for realization. There can never be rest in the world, for as an individual rises to a higher plane his ideals rise turing him to more strenuous endeavor.
 We are often blinded by the as tonishing material accessories that gather about a great institution. But to him who reflects these are but the grosser objects of sense, while back of them is the dominating in fluence and genius of human soul
 The costly monuments built to per petuate historic conditions. changes in political geography and social in stand today as suggestive of the travail of a human soul bring l ing new ideas to the birth
 The names of Aristotle, Bacon | Darwin, Napoleon. Lincoln are of | value today not because of any ma | reriaI things they builded. but be- ,ause of the personalities that were | strong enough to overmaster all lindrances and chart new highways ,or the thoughts of men.
 The personal element is of more ,onseduence in the selection of lead ITS in school work than any amount If academic pretensiOn. A system hat bases the selection of teachers md supervisors upon the bare ability a answer set questions graded by unknown makers is vicious and ridic- llous. In some of our great cities his is the custom.
 All things educational should be urned to the development of the personal element It is time to ques- ion the wisdom and economy of classifying our children by herds ana ,rades. A herd of people never con tituted anything but a machine It $ only when individuals have broken pose from the herd and have found means for individual development hat we have been startled by out ,ursts of genius.
 Our schools filled with children are acred places, not because out of hem shall come the factory and hop operatives, not because the -Oters and office holders shall come hence and go as cattle to the sham lies. not because they are to fill ur colleges and universities and medical schools and theological sem naries but because in them Is the ,erm of life eternal for our nation md race Out of them must come he strong men and women who can lot be controlled by routine pro- esses nor by sordid temptations, but hall be able to map out new charts nd lead the advance march of our ivilization.
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