Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-21

given an equality of educational OPP
portunity. He said the total en-
rollment of school children in the
United States is twenty-one' million
and forty, per cent of these are at
tending one-teacher schools.
n. H.. Ballard introduced
n. II. Ballard, of Brunswick, state
school superintendent who as
sumes his duties about the first of
July, was introduced at the Thursday
morning session by DR.. Parks, the
present state superintendent, who is
serving the uneXpired term Of -1r.
M. L. Britain.
Mr.. Ballard expressed his disap-
pointment over the failure of the
schools to receive during 1922 the
one-half of the excess of the states
revenue, as promised them by the
legislature. He state dhis policy
when he goes into the office as state
superintendent, will not be differ
ent from the policy of his predeCes-
sors, and in this connection he paid
high tribute to the great construc-
tive work of DIR. Britain, extending
! over a period of more than ten
years. Mr.. Ballard said he wishes
! to carry on the program so ably in
augurated by DR.. Britain and put
! forward during the past few months
! by DR.. Parks.
H. D. Knowles, of Quitman, presi-
dent of the Georgia Educational as
/ ISOLATION, spoke briefly on the gen
; eral situation of the common schools.
He advocated the suggestion ad-
Vanced on Tuesday by DR.. Parks of
| going to the legislature, when it
meets in June, and insisting upon a
special appropriation to cover the
excess promised to the schools for
1922, but not paid to the schools
for the reasons explained by Gov
ernor Hardwick in his address Tues
day morning.
DR.. Tiger1's address on the sub
ject of nationalism and information.
alism produced a deep impression
and his points were loudly applaud.
ed. Sharing honors with DR.. Tigert
on the morning program were DR..
Bruce r. Payne president of George
Peabody college at Nashville; r. o.
Small, Boston, director Of vocational
education; f. E. Land, director of
vocational education for Georgia
and Mrs. Charles HQburn, of Ma
con, who brought a message from
the Georgia PIT. A.
DIR. Bruce Payne Speaks
DR.. Bruce r. Payne, president of
George Peabody college at Nash
vile, gave the superintendent 4
talk on training teachers and super
intendents.
"No teachers are born and not
many are made" said DR.. Payne.
1.-THE making of good teachers is a
Job which cannot be done entirely
by the normal colleges, because a
great many teachers are not able
to attend the normal colleges. Mas
sachusetts provides the best and
cheapest normal training facilities
of any shete, and yet only fifty per
cent of The public school teachers
of that state have normal training.
1.-The job of training teachers
must be done partly by the super
intendents. They must fill in the SIP
| between the normal college and the
unframed teacher who is unable to
take normal training. If a teacher
cannot go to a normal college, the
superintendent should be capable of
taking the normal college to the
teacher.
"a teachers principal business is
to teach. When you visit teacher
| in the schoolroom do not frighten
her by critical supervision. Do not
pay more attention to the chalk dust
and the cobwebs than to the teach
| ing of the children. Teach your
teachers how to teach. Try to make
each oen a better teacher every time
you make a visit