Omaha daily bee., 1921-11-10
Teachers Of State in
Annual Convention
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steps from mere chance toward Ger.
tainty in education has accompanied
the broadening and enriching of the
course of study. We shall never
achieve success in this line until the
school course is made so inclusive
that every child shall find there the
intellectual and spiritual influences
to develop his latent powers to the
maximum"
Alarming Features.
One OF the alarming features in
public education is found in the fact
that the bright young men and
women are not interested in the
teaching business, Mr.. Blair said
They are looking toward other lines
where there is more assurance of a
living wage. Mr.. Blair then quoted
an instance of where a teacher with
Is years of experience, a graduate
Of the normal school and state uni
versity, was receiving SIPS a month
while a lad of II, attending high
school and working in the evenings
shifting lights and signals for a rail
road, earned $l37 per month.
= Discover and stop the leaks and
wastage in the system; show in your
campaigns for revenue that educa-
ton bears direct and definite rela-
tionship to the value of property;
urge your commonwealth to see
that the teacher receives a wage
which will enable her to prepare
herself thoroughly and to give her
an assurance of some margin for
old age, thereby enlisting the best
and brightest young men and
women, if you would find the solu-
ton of the education problem" Mr..
Blair concluded.
Urges Moral Training.
Mr.. Mahoney, in his talk, urged
the need of greater moral training
in the public schools.
He advocated making moral char
acter requisite for graduation, and
placing OF academical accomplish
ments in second place.
As a nation, we worship clever
ness" he said. "We have come to
pay too little attention to whether or
not this cleverness is applied in the
right direction. This is just as much
a problem of our schools as teaching
pupils to read and write.
The problem of thes chool is also
to develop the ability to serve, and
willingness to serve, in equal propor-
tions. Development of pupils should
be not only mental, but physical and
moral as we'll.
I'VE never will be outdone by anv
people for inherent brains or physi-
cal development; but the tendency is
toward smartness, whether right or
wrong, and this tendency is danger.
GUS"
Program for Thursday.
The Thursday morning general
session in the Auditorium will be
opened with community singing, led
by Albert Edmund Brown of Low
ell, Mass. This will be called prompt
ly at 1856.
The first speaker on the program
will be Herbert S. Weet, superintend-
ent of public schools at Rochester,
N. Y, whose subject will be: Out
standing Ideals That Should Gov
ern Our School Work and Some In.
oexes of Accomplishment"
Chari o. Williams, president of
the National Education association,
will follow with a consideration of
the subject: "Aims and Accomplish
ments of the National Education
Association"
Adjournment Of this general ses-
sion will be at o:40 to enable the
attendants to witness the pageant,
Nebraska" at Brandeis theater.
Qualification of Teacher.
Chief qualifications of a successful
teacher are sympathy, personal ap-
pearance, address, sincerity, opti-
misnl, enthusiasm, scholarship, vital
ity, fairness, reserve, according to
paper read yesterday afternoon by
Superintendent w. R. Pate of Al
lance, Neb., before the superintend-
ents' and principals division of tho
Nebraska State Teachers associa-
ton.
Selection and Assignment OF
Teachers" was the theme of the Al
lance educator, who asserted that of
the many duties OF a Nebraska school
superintendent, he believed the Sc
lection and assignment of competent
teachers the most important.
"A superintendent should reqrire
high standards and he should admit
only competent teachers into his
organization" said Superintendent