Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-26
Americans Like to Be Bun
koed, Prof. GWinn Tells
School Superintendents.
NATIONAL EDUCATORS
CONTINUE MEETINGS
ALI Phases of Their Work Discussed
During Convention Sessions
in Richmond.

sun S bright lanccs routed the mists of
morning and gave the National Educa-
ton Association q brilliant winter day
Tor its convention work.
The department of superintendent
opened its session with a discussion of
The Foundation of Educational Achieve
ment. paper read by Edward L.
Thorndlke of Teachers College, Columbia
University.
I'll. Il. Wilson, superintendent of schools,
Topeka, Kan, delivered the report of the
committee on economy of time in educa-
ton, participated in by ]. F. Hosic, Chi
cago Normal College. and W. A. Jessup,
University of Iowa.
The annual business meeting. open to
active members only. completed the
morning and early afternoon session.
Round Table Is Held.
The round table" opened at pm,
was participated in by Prof. J. NJ
Gwinn, superintendent of schools, New
Orleans; Martin G. Brumbaugh. superin-
tendent. Philadelphia David Snedden
state commissioner Boston, and other
college presidents. school superintendent
and state commissioners.
j. J. DoyQe, president OF the State
leader in the department of normal
schools conference.
Get education quick schemes have
made easy victims of present-day Amer
leans, according TO Prof. Gwinn. in an
address upon The Scholastic Function
Of the School TO the Comm unity 1t
Serves. before the superntendents' di-
vision.
Americans said Prof Gwinn. seem
10 Ike being buncoed. The demand OF
the day Is observation-disclosures results.
Scholarship rs function Of the schools
seems 70 have fallen into disrepute in
these latter days
Causes of Situation.
While he blamed the desire for quick
resu IS as the chief cause OF this, the
speaker ascribed as contrihutory reasons
the reaction against useless. imprac-
ticable and dearly purchased scholar
snip Of the past, the egotism of the
tines and The emphasis which de-
mocracy places on the Individual.
Scholarship is not TO be abandoned,
he said. but is undergoing serious modi-
fieations. due to the changes OF the ideal
from leisure to work. ard from the view
that the worker needed no education to
that held today. which means knowledge
and skill. The field Of human experience
has widened unit there now is a strug
Gle for existence in the field of knowl-
edge. and scholarship has become at
tached 70 other than the Traditional
studies.''
Prof. Gwinn declared that the first
scholastic function of the school is to
give the child control OF the technique of
human experience. This he added.
tends to localize subject matter and
make the elementary text books of the
future local products
The speaker outlined the second scho-
lastic function of the school as that of as
sisting the child to acquire that portion of
experience most useful in earning living
later in life.
Training of Rural Teacher.
The training of the rural teacher, said
Prof. F. +. Doyne. should be especially
thorough and exact with regard to the
simpler and more elementary subjects
Stress was laid upon the Importance of
a ready command OF English. a practical
grasp Of mathematics and thorough
knowledge of cotemporaneous history.
The instruction of pupils in subjects SO
- ieG as 10 t0bc3te them away from
their environment. said the speaker
tcSci! r. The entire training of teachers
~ .rra' schools" he said should be
4 e6ted toward Leadership. The cont,nu-
ait'ng Of the best brain and b: avn
FL = country to the city has been
l.enaCe to the colntry's we fare.
these inroads the rural teacher
et arc slccessful warfare.
Itt training of the rural teacher
y crefore should include a cou. Sc in rural
ecoIc.r,ics ana a study of rural social
life Agriculture. theoretical and practi-
cal. should be "A part oil mis- curriculum
opinions gathered from curso-y reading
III; not suffice. The country does rot
.sait the man who has read things but
NJ. man who actually has seen things
Il, ... and can do th-nr -