Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-15 | Page 9 | Educators End Successful Meet

EDUCATORS M SUCCESSFUL 1EEI Mrs. Young Says the Teachers Were Greatly Benefited by the Convention. tical AngCe as Being of Prime Magnitude. SAN FRANCISCO, July 11 "The teachers seem more imbued with the fiee American spirit They walk with their backs straight and are less aimless." So much has the forty-eighth annual an-nual convention of the National Education Edu-cation association, which closed here today, has don- for its members, In the opinion of Mrs Ella Flagg Young of Chicago, Its retiring president Mrs. Young, however, took up the political po-litical angle as being of prime magnitude magni-tude 'The first and most noticeable thing about the meeting," she said, "Is the mi'tual understanding at which the two factions of the association associa-tion have arrived Both find that they arc not so far apart as they sup- posed. The rnnk and file of the teaching teach-ing force has shown deepened Interest Inter-est in all that has been done. Thorough Thor-ough addresseB made on the subject of teachers and teaching there has been imparted a spirit of self-reliance missing heretofore, and these addresses address-es have enabled tho teachers to realize real-ize the appreciation in which they are legarded by tho public. "Groat emphasis also has been laid at this convention upon the necessity for developing strong physiques In school children." Tjonlght's program included an address ad-dress on "Progress in Public Education" Educa-tion" by Francis G Blair, superintendent superinten-dent of public instruction of Illinois, and on "Poace in the School" by Katherine D. Blake, a principal Inthe city of New York The latter was not devoted to questions of discipline, as some inferred from the title, but urged the teaching of tho altractive-I altractive-I noss of world peace A meeting of '.jljonew- board of trustees was held