The Mena weekly star., 1913-12-18

had something to do with It. But ne he started to leave, he paused hefore the open door Of house AS he looked in he saw the father ana mother of that family sitting around the daily altar, and the father reau from the family Bible; and ne saw them kneel and pray that their sons might grow up with strength ana character and noble manhood, Ana he had the secret of what made this countrv great. He said that Amerl- ca's greatness was not in her manu- featuring establishments, or her great wealth or her resources; but her greatness was in her manhoou and her womanhood. We will never become great from any other stand point. Why is it that the country has drifted into this way of staying away from the original idea? My answer is. the lack of interest m the people concerned.
 Prof Dean gave the statlstlcs o1 1905 with reference to money ex- pended on education, as S2l3'00O,00O. Taking that sum relatively with eX, nenditures for liquor and immoral nurposes, there was Sii ,000,00O more expended for these things than Tor educating the children of the coun- try.
 Low Salaries.
 Prof. Dean estimated the 100000 children of certain district to be taught. with the salaries Of the teachers very low, averaging, many of them, BPS per month. Tn the face of these facts" said he, some people have the disposition to ask why the public schools are a fall ure."
 MT. Dean said that they are now in a struggle ia the carrying out ol the original plans of the framers of the Constitution. He went on: We are teaching the law of things and their forces. All the things that the curriculum of the state has pro- vided-agriculture, literature and psychology-are well enough, but not the essential things. But snap ing the tendencies of life are. l want to say to you tonight that no formulated attempt has been made in the state along these lines; no organized, vital effort to fix the af- factions and will of the student to a loving obedience of these laws The teachers who are doing 1t are doing it over and above their re- quirements, incidentally might say almost accidentally It is the duty of the state to require this Whenever the state demands that these ideas of the framers of the Constitution he carried out the other ideas of the problems of the country will he solved. It might shut out some of these politicians and demagogues going over the country to save the country.
 Quality, Not Quantity.
 Scholarship is the essential thing in school, but it is not the end to work for. That is where the school is falling down. If wC have the right kind of QUALITY teaching, the quantity teaching Nil take care Of itself. ii is nc criterion for a teacher to say sht can teach more pupils than other teachers. The real needs today arc manhood and womanhood. Americ; has been foremost in raising ra- ton of heroes. No true American would trade the record of Wash ington for all the intellectual rec ords of all the Noltaires combined.
 Mr. Dean went on to explain tha we were tending to that very end of raising Noltaires. He said: "I you will examine the lives of meT who have made America great vol will find in the life of each of then a teacher that formed the will a well as the intellect To these men as they were growing up. they Ina, the schooling in their own homes. In speaking of the tidal wave O crime in the country, he attributed it to the lack of moral atmospher, in the home and lack of interest il the schools. He said: People ar, contented to go with these condi tions and not know whether thei son or daughter is prepared to flgh life's battles. They may find tha they are not strong enough to battl against the waves, and it is bette
 for them to be able to say. I an master of my fate; I am captain O my soul"
 Prof Dean closed his address b, declaring that what this state need led was schools that made men cap
 tains of their souls, and that every thing else would take care of itself | m CTnD Cnu-rnN, raxsnU vx-r