The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-06
Thousands of Teachers Have
Invaded Topeka.
Big State Association Meeting
Now in Full Swing.
POWERFUL ADDRESSES TODAY
Dean Russell of Columbia Uni
versity First on Program.
Supt. John Kennedy on the
BATAVIA Plan"

Kansas teachers have fairly taken
Topeka by storm. Thousands OF them
''blew'' in today. All the regular pas
senger trains were crowded and sew
eral specials brought large delega-
lions Of school ma'ams.
Registration was heavy at the state
house, and the auditorium was well
filled this morning in connection with
the first general session Of the meet
ing. Topeka as host is doing every
thing possible for the accommoda-
tion of the visitors. Every train was
met by local committees and the
teachers found sire cars or autos
waiting to convey them to the city
building or the state house where
assignment of rooms is being made
under the direction of E. F. Stanley,
chairman Of the local entertainment
committee. There is force OF n1ty
Boy Scouts on duty as guides ana
pages at the railway stations, the au-
ditorium and the state house and they
are making themselves generally
useful.
Topeka welcomes the teachers TO
the city as is shown by the fact that
hundreds of the best homes have been
opened to them, that elaborate enter
tainment has been provided by the
Commercial club, the Topeka school
teachers and the citizens, and the
main business thoroughfares have
been bedecked with flags in honor
of the visitors The program at the
auditorium tonight will consist OF
high-class musical entertainment
booked by the Commercial club. the
artists being Charles w. Clark, BARI
tone and Miss Frances Ingram, con-
tralto.
Dean RusselPs Address.
The best discipline is that which Sc
cures the greatest freedom to the in
dividual consistent with the rights of
his fellows, accordin to Dean James
E. Russell of the Teachers College.
Columbia University. who gave an adj
dress at the auditorium this morning
on Developing Initiative Through.
School work"
Dean Russell said in part:
What is good discipline in a school
or classroom? Is it the kind that is
begotten Of fear and imposed by au-
thority? I have heard principals and
teachers read out on the opening days
of school list Of penalties for infrac-
lions Of the law. but have never been
persuaded that laws unsupported by
public opinion are any more success
AuA III SCAOOA tIAdIA V0IoAuC. AC 1OCh-
step and monitorial system no more be-
long by right in the American schools
than they belong in the American
home, or in public I ceilings or in
business. The best discipline is that
which secures the greatest freedom
to the individual consistent with the
rights Of his fellows. The trained OBJ
server can tell at glance whether
a class is held in order by superim-
posed authority or is orderly because
all want to do some task.
''It is an impressive and reassuring
sight to see. as 1 did recently, fifteen
hundred high-school pupils walk leis-
urely from their class-rooms to the
assembly hall. find their places with
out confusion, and instantly stop their
conversation when the clock indicated
the hour for the exercises to begin.
Herein is self-control worthy of Amer
lean citizenship. To say to one; come.
and he cometh, and to another go, and
he goeth. may be an ideal Of military
discipline and it may occasionally be
necessary in home and school, but the