Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-10-23
Bismarck Making Record
As Convention CITY
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(COnallu6Q IrOLu age OucJ 81
The. country boy surpasses the city,
boy in life, largely because he has.
chores to do on the farm; he has
learned how TO work. The city bred
boy has no work to do at home and
our labor laws will not let him york
outside school hours. l would make
the children work hard while in
school. The more education a boy or
girl is given, the greater the obliga-
ton to toll.
"Also, / would have my American
children willing to obey and to hold
a proper respect for authority. A
lack of obedience to authority is an
evil naturally growing out of a re-
publican form of government. We
must guard against it. Our difficulty
in America is ito compel ourselves to
obey the laws we make for ourselves.
We can never get obedience in the
schools unless it is also inculcated
at home. 1t is a habit and it is not
like a garment which can be put on
and taken off ait will.
"These cardinal virtues Of service,
toll and obedience, cannor be gained
from a text book, but they can be i'm
parted by the example or precept of
the teacher. They make up"charac.
ter. Education without character is
worse than useless. The more highly
educated a criminal is. the more dan
,gerous he becomes
:, Educational Field.
Declaring that in spite of the con
servatism in educational fields, Eu-
genics, the youngest child Of human
research, has arrived and grown so
rapidly as to be heard around the
world, DR.. Acher advocated the study
Of that science in the public schools.
DR.. Acher dealt at length with mod
ern race conditions and said in con-
nection, teachers should strive to be
progressive. They should cultivate a
sensitjvity to new ideas and move
mepts in their special field of study
and he ever mindful that new occa-
sions teach new duties.
eve must not impede progress,
but rather consciously and purposely
strive to cultivate an attitude of mind
which is favorable to new and i'm
proved methods in accomplishing the
great work of the public schools. If
the public. schools arr" to serve So
eiety III the fullest iisehseo,1 teachers
must study the needs of society in
truely statesmanlike fashion andftry
to minister to the needs revealed by
investigation.
Use Great Care.
.' "People use great care in selecting
wilt resisting flax seed, and what
would they not give for rus proof
wheat? They use great care proper
ly mating cattle to secure the best
possible breed, and neglect entirely
the same factors in, the human race.
Parents do not ask the sutton to their
daughters hand, for a physicians Ger.
tificate."
Much Of the racial defect, the
speaker said, was due to heredity
and this he would remedy in time to
come by the segregation of the unfit.
But the science f Eugenics also de.
AAe~AAuo oOh AioLA uCIAOI w pHypIC1dl0
where teachers cannot teach it, in the
public schools and better and more
systematic physical education among
the young women. Such action, DR..
Archer concluded, would tend toward
race betterment and fewer asylums.
superintendent Blair.
The third address was given by
F. G. Blair, Superintendent of Public
Instruction in the state of Illinois.
He discussed the relationship which
should exist between parents and
teachers, and handled the subject with
a broad understanding that made the
address of 10 than usual interest.
The Parents Standpoint.
Mr.. Blair first handled the question
from the standpoint of the parent,
discussing qualities which the par
ents desired in the teachers. Years
and years ago, Mr.. Blair said, the
teachers were selected by the parents
of the children and they were select
ed because of the qualities which the
parents most desired. He then told
of the present method of selecting
teachers through boards of trustees
and examining boards, leaving the
parents out of consideration. In lead
ing up to his first points, the speak
er spoke of the possibility Of bring
ing together all Of the fathers and