Teacher's Voice from Phillipsburg, Kansas • 5

ring: address on the W. K. T. Miss Emma Parshalt and Mrs. Riste furnished some excellent music for the occasion, A business meeting- was held, at which the following- members were elected as members of the Executive Committee, in accordance with the amendment to the C.

A. Mitchell, Mrs. D. French, C. I.

Smith, J. R. Breakey and L. W. Scott.

Six new members were added to the list, and the receipts of the session were $6.95. In the evening Rev. D. G. Strong-delivered an excellent address on "The Mind and Its Culture." Mrs.

Winifred Breakey, Sec'y. ity and willingness to do his work. Fitness and ability, not the elective franchise or favoritism will determine educational positions of honor and leadership." E. B. Bacheller, Oakley: "Amen." R.

M. Killian, Goodland: "School boards are realizing the value of professional teachers." .0. L. Smith, Phillipsburg: "Pensioning is all right teachers never save if they teach professionally." O. M.

Becker, Lenora: "Our present generation of teachers must inspire that of the future by endeavors to eliminate undesirable practices and tenden-cies. R. D. Emery, Edmond: "Teachers ought not to fashion their future with any idea of having a good time in old age." H. A.

Griffiths, Colby: "Teachers of the future will not make their work a stepping-stone to something else, thus dividing their attention and impairing their usefulness." A. V. Lauderback, Stockton: "The tendencies of teaching are said to be narrowing, yet I believe that the coming teachers will be broader. J. M.

Tadlock, Phillipsburg: "Teachers will sometime come under civil-service regulations, with reference to their selection, pay and pensioning." J. N. Mosher, Smith Centre: "The best teachers of the future will be executive will be thorough business men." "Teachers'. and Pupils' Reading-Circle Work" was discussed by Superintendent Irwin Stanley, of Beloit. Prof.

R. D. Emery read an excellent paper on "Emerson." His analysis showed a depth of thought and reasoning that few of our teachers have yet attained. R. V.

Wilcox of Hill City, read a paper on "Abuses of Kindergarten Methods," prepared by Miss Mary Mechem of the, same place. "Formal teaching," she said, "is wrong it does not cultivate an outward growth." Miss Clara O. Hughes, Phillipsburg: "The principles of the kindergarten are based upon the deepest philosophy. The system is abused by those who attempt its methods without more than a superficial knowledge of its philosophy. Using kindergarten material for busy work merely, without having future development as its object, is pernicious.

All work must lead up to something beyond itself make inventors rather than imitators of the children." Miss Lillian Souders, of Colbr: "When we leave out the joyous spirit of the child, we omit its main element." L. W. Hick, of Norcatur, read a paper on "The Teacher's Means of Self-Culture." "The zenith of the soul's development," he said, "has not been reached. 'Aim high, and keep shooting' is a very good motto. Culture is not an acquisition; it is a development.

Schoolroom work is itself a means of culture to the teacher." C. I. Smith, Prairieview: "All our means of culture may be embraced in the terms time, energy, and money. We must develop ourselves largely outside of school work, because there our energies are scattered." "The Teacher as a Citizen," was discussed by E. B.

Bacheller, of Oakley. He described, humorously, the primitive teacher, and showed his development. "Every teacher is under obligations to stucly himself, to eliminate undesirable traits in his society R. C. Smith, Goodland: "The teacher must be more than an ordinary citizen.

He must know more than one side of questions." W. S. Coleman, Lawnridge: "The teacher must teach patriotism by his life." "Why Our Boys Leave School," was a paper read by R. M. Killian, of Goodland.

"The subject states a truth. The teacher makes a most serious mistake in trying to merely entertain the children. Dollars are great enemies of the schools, because for them the boys leave us." J. W. McDougal, Colby: "Pupils leave school because parents exercise little authority in requiring their attendance at school.

It is uphill work to reform a boy surrounded by bad home influence." Mrs. J. R. Breakey, Phillipsburg: "Boys get the idea that when in their teens they are men." R. D.

Emery: "You will not keep the boys in school by patting them on the head." Superintendent J. F. Kimmel, Sherman county: "Give the boys their rights." On Saturday morning, H. A. Stow-ell, of Oberlin, discussed "Professional Methods of Securing Positions." "The time of the annual meeting should be changed to an earlier date.

Recommendations ought never to be given for the sake of friendship." J. E. Gleason, Norton: "The professional method is to become worthy of the position and seek it frankly, underbidding cannot be too severely condemned; it is practically buying- a position. Political or personal influence may or retain one his position, but at the same time he becomes obligated and subservient." W. K.

Loofbourrow, Atwood: "Use your knowledge of human nature and your personal knowledge of the board (Continued on 8th page.) N. W. K. T. fl.

at Coiby. This meeting- was in most respects the most successful yet held. R. L. Chambers welcomed the teachers Thursday afternoon and an able response was made by Superintendent O.

L. Smith, of Phillips county. President J. Mosher, of Smith Centre," was presented by ex-President H. A.

Griffiths, of Colby. In the President's address, he pointed out the things our sctiools should attempt to teach. The tendency seems to be to railroad pupils through school and to the college or university. The best work the work of the best schools-must be for the ninety and nine; the one should not be sent to college at the expense of these. If the public -schools are the people's colleg-es, they must keep near the needs of the people The true policy is to teach correct conceptions of rig-ht and wrong-.

The true American school will sacrifice the traditional for the essential. In the evening-, many of the teachers listened to a lecture by Rev. M. L. Haynie, of Illinois.

The Friday morning- session was opened by J. A. Brown, of Bird City, with a paper on "The Teachers of the Future. He compared the teacher of to-day with him of the past. "We of -to-day will be held responsible, to a certain extent, for the qualifications Of the teacher of the future." W.

G. Riste, of PhillipSburg: "The ideal teacher of the future will have served an apprenticeship under some acknowledged master, or have a -course of normal training. He will be strictly a professional, because his position will depend solely upon his abil.