Imperial Valley press., 1922-12-21
PROF. COOK OF
s. D. UNIVERSITY
AT INSTITUTE
Emphasizes Need of
Applying knowledge
Gained
Early Days of Valley
Schools RecOunted by
Pioneer
gv vIOLETTE S. CAMPBELL

Dean S. Richmond, district super
| intendent of the Brawlev schools,
presided this morning ut the eachers
! institute, which opened on schedule
time. Miss Carmen Fairbanks pre-
sided at the piano, with community
singing opening the program.
The other music of the day was
furnished by the Imperial high
school in the morning and the FL
Centre high school in the afternoon.
DR.. w. A. Cook, dean of educa-
ton of the University of South Da-
kota, was the main speaker both
morning and afternoon, his address
es dealing with professional subjects
and furnishing much food for
thought to the teachers assembled.
DIR. Cook is pleasing speaker,
with a keen sense of humor, and his
addresses were livened up by flashes
of wit which kept all in good
humor
He stated that education in a
democracy has definite fundamental
aims; that contrary toSour own ideas,
education is not soaring upward
with leaps and bounds, but is ascend
ing in a spiral way, moving slowly
forward most of the time, hut slip
ping backward now and then. ...
He said that most teachers in this
day and age have had professional
training; they have met the hours of
requirement in education they know
its history and the objectivcs inso-.
far as book knowledge is concerned
but some of them fail to apply this
knowledge when they are actually at
work in the school room.
Recounts Early Days
''Rag knowledge boxes' was the
theme of most interesting talk by
l.. +. Cooley, pioneer euducater of
Imperial County and former county
superintendent of schools.
"Trish Tim, who accompanied
Hugh j. Baldwin to the desert see
ton of San Diego County when
schools were being opened up here
for the first time, found great amuse-
ment in the tent and brush school
houses where the children attended
school in those first days, and he it
was who named them 'Rag Knowl-
edge boxes
Mr.. Cooley was among the first
of the teachers in the valley. He
told of those first days as only one
who was n part of the times could
have told the story. He noted the
growth and development of the sys-
TEN, the equipment in buildings and
furnishing o. this day and related
interesting incidents connected with
his professional and official life in
the valley.
SHIRLEY Voices Appreciation
A. p. SHIRLEY spoke for few min
utes and expressed appreciation for
the men and women who came with
the courage of pioneers to lay the
foundation for the splendid schools
of today.
Quite n number of the county
teachers left last night for Los An
geles TO attend the remaining SEES
sions of the California Teachers AS
ISOLATION, southern section, but the
majority were in their seats in the
high school auditorium at both SEES
sions today, f. NJ. Higginbotham,
principal of the Westmoreland
schools, presided at the afternoon
session.
DIR. A. +. Winship, publisher of
the Boston Journal of Education,
and DR.. M. f. Haggerty of the Uni
versity of Minnesota, are to be the
speakers at the Friday sessions.
Section meetings arebeing held at
various periods of the day as time
permits.