The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-05
ANNUAL GATHERING STATE EDUCATORS
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director of the federal board or NOCa tional education, and by Hon. Henry r. Merritt, speaker of the Alabama house of representatives and member or the memorial commission, which has Just concluded it's two-day session in Mont gomery.
 The educators indorsed the action or the memorial commission in a resolu- ton unanimously adopted atter MT Merritt had read to them the nhdlhgs of that body. The resolutions or the Alabama memorial commission were read to the educational convention by MT. Merritt.
 In the address of pr. Haines. the mental hygiene expert. the assembled teachers were urged to lend thelr sup port to the measure due to come up before the next session Of the Ald bama legislature for the estaonshmeht at Tuscaloosa of an institution for the training of the Predetermined. pr. Haines showed wherein it is pubic responsibility to train the feeble-mind- ed separately from normal children.
 He pointed his announcements by an illustration from Mississlppis eN- perience wherein a happy go-lucky childish boy had cost the state pro ductive life and a matter of S150O. not to mention the fact that he himself now rests under death sentence for murder, all because his plastic charac- ter had not received the proper mold ing. He made strong appeal Tor breeding up the human race as sclentil- ically as corn and cattle are now bred to their highest form.
 Miss Strickland, speaking for War Savings, voiced the hope that lessons of thrift gleaned from the war have really sunk home to America. F1gures galore she gave to prove that Ameri- can children and grown-ups spend more than s5,O00, 100000 every year for perfectly useless things. and then she concluded by quoting the poem, Tn Flanders Fields" and saying that the only way to show that "we keep the facts" is by making war thrift habit.
 PALMER'S ADDRESS
 The Sunday school man, MT. Palmer, said in part:
 If our American democracy is to endure the stress of the present world crisis, it must be founded upon the twin foundations of popular intelli- gence and popular character It is the responsibility of the public to guar antee public intelligence; it is the task of the Sunday school, as the education- al function of thee hurch, to build sound national character. The teacher is as great a patriot as the statesman and the religious teacher as great com munity builder as the secular teacher
 q predict that the outstanding char acteristio of the next few years in the fields of education and of religion will be an increasing cooperation between the public school as a developer of in- telligence and the Sunday school as the builder of character"
 Mrs. Hagan found arguments for the presence of music school curricula in the scientific as well as artistic value 70 tt,I, fLa fn,,t that people already believe in music to the extent that they spend four times as much money on music as they spend on their public schools and two and half times as much .as they spend on the colleges.
 pr. Phillips spoke briefly of the fed eral aid which is to go directly for the purpose of raising teachers salaries if the plan of the National Educational association goes through
 More time was given to vocational education than to any other one topic during the day Friday. Dr, Prosser, speaking on this subject in Mobile, is on his way to New Orleans to confer ] with the officials of business concerns of that city on the subject of the train ing and employment of disabled sol | diers. James l.. Sivley, district voca- tional officer, was present at Dr. Pros 1 ser's address and will go to New Or leans with him on the same mission.
 The trouble with many teachers pr. Prosser said "is that their idea of education is built on the apperceptive basis of four walls; a black board a bell | to ring the children in and another to l ring them out; desks, big enough for | the little fellows and not nearly big | enough to keep the big chaps from 1 rubbing their knees against the top | Education isn't just a school. To be | frank, schools are only small fraction | of the total educational force that surrounds man in the course of his | lifetime. His home teaches him much 1 Then there are newspapers and maga- zines to help out. And finally, there is ! much education to be had out of that JOB, job, which he ultimately gets
 Dr. Prosser resents the assertion of ma terialism that the vocational enthus- lasts have cast at them now and then.