The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-21

HN opening address OF President
Eddy Of the Schoolmasters A.
ISOLATION Of New York and
Vicinity, delivered at the first meeting
Of the association in the new season,
WA a. follows:
Dean Russell has stated the four aims
OF education ss followsi
when you ask me what counts most
IN education ! havo no hesitation In put
ting to tho front good health. The next
desideratum IL proper manner and
morals; In q word. suitable habits. The
next thing In the education of any
body, man or woman, In the ability
to engage In useful occupation. This
probation of what Ia best In life.
Lord Kelvin has said that the ond OF
education IL first to help n man earn a
living and h to make his life worth
living. The one thing ineedful IL the
ability to discriminate In what life ofere.
TO single out the best and to appropriate
Il In the STRUGGLE for %attainable ideals"
II Is to this last aim that I invite
your attention. Browning makes Fra
Lippo Lippi say: Tf you get simple
beauty and naught else you get about
tho best thing God i~nvents. and you'll
fnd the rest within yourself when YOU
return him thanks"
1t seems to me that II we substi-
tute for beauty, true ideals. tho quota
ton applies most aptly to our view Of
the purpose Of education. III you get
true ideals and naught else. you get
about tho hest thing God invents." In
our discussion OF educational systems
last year. the Importance Of the ideal
was brought out most strongly Dean
Russell worded most e~loQuently the con-
YruQf lNofuaan AOsartrnn md (.arpin n
educational systems n the relation OF
their basal conception to h world
catastrophe We are experiencing to-day.
A happier but no less significant ex-
ample Of III progress that follows tho
establishment Of true ideals. IL seen In
the tremendous advance OF science dur.
Ing the past quarter century.
In individuals who have achieved
! true greatness, We q In every case
trace that achievement 20 an apprecia-
! ton OF what was worth while plus the
will to pursue II.
In brief. then. a. educators and
moulders or men YOU will. I him agree
! with me that our greatest aim is so Ia
! impress upon our youth the appreciation
Of what Is worth while. that they In
their careers will become dynamic eN-
ponents Of the ideals gained in the
schoolroom.
Accepting. then. Dean husSeHh fourtl
aim OF education rs OF supreme i'm
p~ortance, It behooves us as teachers 10
give especial attention TO the means OF
Its accomplishment. One Of the mos
impressive addresses e.
which ] ever listened was given n few
years ago by DR.. Charles Jefferson %
J the graduates Of Pratt Institute. Ths
burden OF his plea was that h gradu-
ate give y great part OF his future read
ing to the perJHal OF the biographies o.
truly great men. Such advice pursued
with an analytic min would undoubt-
eslly make for an appreciation of tru.
ideals. Precept and sermOn. appeal to
emulation. all are means constantly en-.
pioysd by every good teacher to k!ndle
| the inner light by which our children
must guide their steps when they WALL
alone.
Rut after all the lives OF the grea,
dead n the experience Of the past
Is a matter Of the dead and the pasi
and our students arc intensely OF the
living and tho present.
In very recent times tho attention Of
the educational world mas been directed
70 a wide extent to the fitting OF tn,
child for life even 20 the consideratior
OF the fitness for a particular job. TIL.
spread OF experimentation along Thea.
lines n the instant response of pupi