Williams news., 1922-12-01
PARTIAL REPORT STATE STATE TEACHER'S ASSOCIATION

The Following Is partial report o
 the State Teachers Association con
 ference held in Phoenix Monday an, Tuesday of this week
 The house was called to order b,
 MT. Neal, the president of the asso l ciation and because of unexpected hindrance Governor Campbell was no present to deliver the welcome ad
 dress. This duty fell to the lot o1
 Miss Elsie Toles, State Superintend
 ent of Public Instruction. Her speecI
 was of a three fold purpose: first, tc
 welcome the largest number of teach
 CTS who had ever gathered at a com mon meeting place in this State; sec
 ond, as she stated, it gave her an op- portunity to sing her swan song, and third, to introduce Dr. J. J. Tigert, the United States Commissioner of Education.
 Dr.. Tigert
 The parsonage of Dr. Tigert stood in wing contrast for more than two hours between the stately statues of Lincoln and Washington. The theme of his first speech was on the quality of merit possessed by the teacher. His first -enthusiasm-is a word taken from a compound Greek word which means God within Many teachers fail in their profession because of lack of enthusiasm. Sev- enty-fve per cent of the teachers of the United States change every year to other activities. Some marry some use the prof fession as a stepping stone to other things, but not to high er things, and some lack enthusiasm because of time and interest being de- voted to other activities.
 Dr. Tigert spoke briefly of the pro ,essional training and emphasized the of the teacher being es- ,ecially prepared to do the work 1 which she represents. He failed to | ustify the claim that one teacher of |
 certain grade should be paid better l han the teacher of any other grade, nless she has spent more time in ared. There is no ground upon rhich normal child of the first grade } more deserving than the normal hild of any other grade says Dr. igert. Emphasis of tremendous inn is placed upon the ability of le first grade teacher. However, this rade is no more important than a rade of the high school and the high ,hool is no more important than the 'urth grade and the fourth grade de- ands as much attention as a class in e normal school. According to this third point, Dr. . lgert believes most fervently in CO.,, ,eration. Regardless of the number
 degrees which an under teacher ay hold that the superintendent 'es not possess, or regardless of any !, putation which teacher may have ,- tablished, it is her duty to support r superintendent loyalty to the last mute. Dr. Tigert cited most strik- . example of disaster brought out by failure of under officers to <' Try out the plans of their general S the battle of Gettysburg in July r 63. No business can succeed where ere is no recognized authority--no F siness can thrive where there exists s'' -ided and counteracting forces Y
 Dr.. CIoyd H. Marvin c' pr. Marvin is the newly appointed e' 'sident of the State University. He " not only in scholar I'll p and unusual ability, but is the ii' 1ngest university president in the s' tied States. In his first speech Dr. hs rvin advocated the elimination of n< emonials and formality in the pres oi
 day school He says there should oe more push of the real spirit back oe the school. The boys and girls to-day should Know and realize m their school days mean more than tie mere reading of the printed page an
 giving back to their teacher in oi manner that which he co previously crammed. It is the plt 1ion of the writer that the modern SCI pol boy is courteous enough to for SIS . the teacher for such a method ca to forget the xubol. +b;no .o thi possible There is nothing more sIa ng to the modern st,da,+ tb.r ye, mpt to hold the student by the 3 and dose him with moral plati- co es-so to speak. Show him the i've and live up to his expectations better results will follow. ing r. Marvin says our school system the ased too much upon the old Plato min Aristotle psychologist. Colossal sec