Show SCHOOL OFFICIALS ATTEND convention ily supt bupt n B K Fanin worth the national Lolu cation association has two big conventions yearly one in the summer to which a all I 1 teachers and others interested in education are invited the other in F february which Is essentially the department ot of superintendents these latter meetings last a week are always held about the tho week of birthday begin with sacred service on oil sunday and have a huge exhibit accompanying the convention for these reasons they are arc held in cities which have floor door space tor for a large and varied exhibit and convention rooms for or to people the convention just closed was held in ili cleveland ohio cleveland is most fortunately equipped tor for such a convention it la Is a city ot of about people conveniently situated in the east central states it is on or close to many of the through lines on the railroad Is splendidly provided with hotels and rooming houses and has one of the largest and most convenient auditoriums in america the building was built as a city project as a memorial to the boys ot of the world war the main arena auditorium room will seat over people in one end ot of this large room is a beautiful stage about 90 feet across the arch and about 75 feet beet deep at the back ot of the stage Is a curtain similar to the front which also opens to another large auditorium called tile the music room i which will hold about 2000 more people under the same root roof as these two large halls are several others known as the little theater about twice the size of 0 the avalon and six or eight lecture r club rooms about tile size ol of fe jase ward recreational halls underneath the whole is a huge full basement in which are held auto shows exhibits and fairs there is also an auditorium annex covering almost as much ground as the auditoriums at these conventions a school man gets a rebirth in educational thought and practice the educational leadership ot of america Is here the last word in school practice and dogma is expounded it Is a feast three sessions lasting two to t sessions lasting two to three hours each are held each of 0 tour four days the theme ot of this years convention was how can the schools better serve democracy the first day attention was given to ways of 0 financing schools the second day stressed selection and training of 0 teachers both in training schools and in service the third day stressed the he organization of 0 schools giving much attention to the new junior college movement vemont mo the system most advocated would hold six elementary grades four grades in junior high school grades 7 8 9 10 and tour four grades in senior high and college grades 11 12 13 14 the last two being college the final day was given to a discussion ot of ideals and character education our state institution and dean milton dennion ol of the university ot of utah received considerable and favorable mention tor for the work lie he has done along this line aside from the convention one also liaa has a tine fine opportunity to v visit I 1 sit outstanding schools either in the convention city or traveling to and rota from the convention I 1 spent ono day visiting schools in cleveland and one day visiting the training schools ot of the university ot of chicago on oil another occasion I 1 visited the training school at columbia university the schools we saw in cleveland were not unlike our own the building ng was larger and better furnished than han any we have they have schools less fortunate than the one we visited or than any we have there were from 25 to 40 students in u each room teachers taught them in n two sections as wo we do we were curious about their nationality so in one room we asked it if we might check on them of 41 pupils 24 were of foreign born percentage 17 were of parents born la in america their parents came from seven different countries none of which were anglo saxon but the school Is a melting pot from which most of thera them come out genuine americans the beautiful thing at the university of chicago training school was the beautiful respect tor for the child hero here at least la is a school truly operated for the child discipline was excellent yet children were carefully guided and encouraged and never crushed |