Show mm EDUCATORS LEAVE FOR FOB m T H OMES rinal FINAL SESSION OF successful GATHE GATHERING RING AT SALT LAKE MARKED BY enthusiasm 4 De legats warm in their praise of reception accorded by utahna and declare convention was most successful in ln history salt lake city T the he fifty flygt annual convention of odthe the national education association came to a alosa Friday night and the salt lake meeting passed into the history ot of the or marked as one ol of the most successful best aest managed and most ro royally yally entertained meeting ot of educators ever held the tributes given salt aaice ano ana utah including the local committees and school officials and teach era who icho have h ave been most active in preparing for the meeting were thoughtful h hatful ex pres of sincere appreciation a jp re clation of the hostess city and state and and the men and women noruen of utah wit who 0 ha have 0 sought rought to show their appreciation of 0 the lonor bonor of entertain ining the N K k A the closing session ot of the convention began with an excellent musical Jr program and closed with tho the reading at an address from president elect joseph swain who was call called ed home fri day morning by a telegram bringing brin gitig word ot of serious illness in his family he left for pennsylvania a few minutes after he had prepared a brief address accepting the office to which ho he had bad been elected this address he was to have given atthe at the closing the corta convention ion friday night but it was read by president t E ET T fairchild whose term terin of with the adjournment of tho the session X J lyman barnard professor of history and government in the school ot pedagogy philadelphia was intro deuced by president EL 1 fairchild as a leader in the movement to humanize the teaching of history and civics lr in the schoola of america mr darna darnard rd outlined methods of teaching civics in tho the publik c schools ot of philadelphia where from the kindergarten up ul anere is an effort to instruct the children as to their duty to tho the community and to their government local and national 17 hoosic head ol of the english department chicago teachers Tea chera college spoke on advance movement Mover rient of teachers of t english Speak speaking irig on an ot of tile the high school as aa a factor in social progress thomas jesse jones specialist in the government bureau burban 0 ol 01 I 1 education i said that thebinh ana high school of today was to be regarded as aa having the greatest opportunity for the democratization of the country P P claxon united states commas lioner of education outlined the needs for a national bureau ol of education calling attention to the matt tuat lua constitution makes no mention ot of education and there are arena acu educational in in the way ot of schools colleges leges s or a u university that despite this the government and the nation as a whole la Is more or less interested te in edue education aaion and educational matters he said discussion ot problems pro bloms of educating atypical children was waa given alren before friday afternoons session ses sioni of the department of special education of the national education association ty by ur dp M q P E groszmann of now york director of the national association fo the study and Edu action of exceptional children |