| Show A I 1 convention formally opened Yesterday Two in lerot lne sessions denver july 0 jhc thc fourth annual convention of tho rational educational cat ional association as opened thia afternoon before two large audiences the regular meeting at the central presbyterian church persons were gathered while 2000 attended an overflow at alie high building and thousand more were turned away in disappointment superintendent aaron bove 0 tho denver school ex of the as ocia tion and chairman of alie arrange menag committee called alie meeting to order and welcomed the convention was followed by lieutenant gover nor jirush governor being in st louie mayor mcmurray and mrs J A peavy elate superintendent of schools responses were made by president duller secretary shepard yh epard colonel W parker principal of the cook counte normal school chicago governor ex northen 0 georgia w ho represent alie cotton exposition and came to invite the teachers to attend it music was then given by alie apollo club composed of twenty denver gentlemen on motion of general john eaton commissioner ex of education of the united states a telegram of greeting was sent to commissioner harris and professor greenwood of kansas city now in edinburgh professor E P cormana Hor mana denver epoco on physical training after which physical culture classes from the ity schools ech directed by their tutor professor jacob schmitt gave an exhibition notice was riven that the constitutional amendments providing for popular voting in the association would be submitted tomorrow alie convention then adjourned till 8 PRESIDENT ADDRESS at the evening session the church was filled in spite of a rain storm was prevailing dr A G lane of chicago vice president presided and professor nicholas murray butler president of the association gave hi annual address what knowledge is of most worth he said in part the question that I 1 am asking aliat knon ledge is of moat worth is a very old one and the answers to it that have been handed down through the centuries are many and various it is a question that each age buet put to itself and answer from the standpoint of its deepest and knowledge know lege the wisest seen or ices cleaby the reaching far character ot the question and alie great importance of the answer the very latest cry ie eliat studies and intellectual exercises are valuable in proportion they stimulated enlarged brain area thus making ilie appreciation of shakespeare of and of leonardo da vinci solely a function of tion of the blood but to of this type philosophy and science can now analo common answer it it axi that spirit ami keason rule then the highest and mot knowledge ia of the thines of the spirit that subtle sense of the beautiful and the sublime which accompanies spiritual tanil is part of it la the highest achievement of aich humanity is capable to develop thie beneo in education ie the task and literature to interpret it ie ahe work of philosophy and to nour ebli it alie function of religion we now come insight of the elemont of truth and permanence in that humanism which petrarca Petr arch and erasmus spread over europe n iiii such high hopes and excellent intentions but winch alio strassburg schoolmaster reduced to the dead mechanical forms and the crude verbalism that bound the in bettera for centuries alip wonders and splendor of nature tibt gaii brought into existence the earlier religious and alie earlie et philosophies were now feared and despised as the basis of paganism and on wholly false grounds a controversy was 1 as to the relative worth 01 literature oa 01 of science that in one form or another lial continued down to our own the as D tie educational value of science so far at least as it concerns educational standards ml ideals iann illusory one it is a mimic words alono as weapons that is eitnier to expel nature from education or to subordinate all else in education to it upon alio school winch it is unable w holly to neglect 11 alio school is to be the training ground for citizenship its products must be usefully and soundly equipped as well as well disciplined and wll informed an educated proletariat to the forcible paradox of is a continual source of disturbance tur bance and danger to any nation utility ia a term that may be given cither very broad or a very narrow mc anine there are utilities higher and utilities lower and under no circumstances cum stances will the true teacher ever permit alie former to LP sacrificed to alie tatter this would be done if in alie zeal tor utting the for self support the were to to lay alie foundation for alia higher intellectual and spiritual lito winch lull stature OF after a eolo hy sire jay robinson of denver dr W superintendent of indian school washington D C spoke on the next step in alie education of the indians lie said education was naturally alie first step in the civilization of alio indiana this could only be given to the younger per sens and to them only after the breaking up of the tribal relations the allotment of lands in severalty is too nuli cal a change for older indians they tail in the new life and abua conceive hostility tor the institutions of civilization which makes effective wore upon the young very difficult alie indians are in many instances immediately surrounded by the worst types of whites the states have no interest in alie indians within their borders permanent good can only come when the states claim from the general government alio liht to control and protect their indian residents and carry out alie treaty stipulations ions by which their consent to become citizens is purchased |
