Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-03-15
Mrs. John w. Wilson Gives
Resume of Most Import
ant Happenings at Recent
Convention at Cleveland.

Mrs. John w. Wilson, president
of The Bernalillo comfy board OF
education, who attended the rec
ord breaking meeting Of the Ma
tional Educational association, re-
ports that Cleveland was never be-
fore SO thronged and 5000 dele
gates not only filled the hotels but
many had TO take quarters IN prl-
waite homss. There was no part o.
the United States not represented
and it was evident that despite The
loss of thousands of teachers to the
school system of the country there
Is no abatement of interest In edu-
eational work.
Mrs. Wilson has prepared FOL
the journal the following state
ment:
The outstanding issues taken VI
by the delegates were the Smith
Towner bill providing for the ap'
pointment Of a secretary Of educa'
ton the presidential cabinet anS
also for an annual appoftloameh
of $1,000 GOO to the states for eGuca'
tional work. In a discussion by tbs
originator Of the bill. Senator Hugh
S, McGill, il was forctbly brough
out that if this bill was made et'
fectiVe it would be the greatest steI
in advance in giving equal eduea
tional opportunities tn all ehlld'
rem and for better salaries and fol
better trained teachers. The state
ment was made that our American
school system must be strengthened
if it is to meet the demands of oul
present day needs which is the re
suit of changed conditions o
American life and changed O.
changing requirements in the fielC
of mental training.
The overwhelming proportion Q
inadequately trained teachers "
work in our schools indicate GU
failure to make good the promis'
of democracy, So the most impor
tant of all is the enlisting o
enough teachers adequatel.
equipped for their work. This cal
cannot be answered when the re
enumeration does not meet tn
common needs Of life, 1t wa
agreed that more important thai
educational systems, methods o
theories is the teacher. Withou
competent, we'll trained teachers n
i educational plan can be successful
A new era in rural education !
| beginning was the prediction of tn
speaker in the rural department
| 1t was pointed out that 60 per cen
| ~ AttHDIinrT n
| lie schools are in the rural dis
! tricts. There is no doubt of III
many advantages Of the cOuntr
school but from a health standpoin
! its good points are almost out
| weighed by its disadvantages. SAM
tary conditions being often over
| looked, also facilities for organize
recreation.
Mrs. Josephine Curliss Preston
president of the National Educa
ton association and superintendent
of the Washington public school'
said the Importance of the ruri
schools must be emphasized NOR
than ever before, Conditions mus
be made more attractive for bot
teacher ana pupil if the create.
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to have the opportunity that right
belongs to them.
In picturing conditions in on
lying and isolated districts, Mr.
Preston told of one district whel
the community had been promise
Il teacher, their first in five year
Fathers and mothers had scrimpt
! en- the family use of butter al
eggs in order to sell them to bl
shoes, clothing and school suppl
for the children. On the day Il
term was to open the childrt
! gathered early; they waited q
through the morning. when short
: before noon the director, an o
: man who knew how great was Il
! need for a teacher, came slow
. UP the road. She amt come"
! told the little group, she got
i better school in town with mo
! money" And the boys and gin
S who had waited SO eagerly sea
9 Itered and went home.
+ True education, said Mrs. Pre-
: ton, is not educating children f
! the individual community but f
: the greatest nation in the worl
S Eso long as there is illiteracy in Il
: country we have "A tremendo
!. lproblem to solve. 1t is a profile
OF pathos as well as eXpedien
4 iwhen we realize that much of II
Y Iilliteracy is found among the pure
: Anglo-SaXon type America pr
J lduces---the third and fourth sc
$ Grafton of pioneer settlers now Ii
] ing in outlying districts.
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