Author : Peabody Education Fund
Release : 2013-09
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Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Trustees at Their Meeting Volume 6 by : Peabody Education Fund

Download or read book Proceedings of the Trustees at Their Meeting Volume 6 written by Peabody Education Fund. This book was released on 2013-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...of the Superintendent of Education, Teachers' Institutes have been held. Besides these, two successful summer schools, with aid from the Peabody Fund, were held. One was at the Peabody Teachers' College under the management of the President of the College, who had as his assistants, with two exceptions, the faculty of the college. This was a great success. Four hundred and fifty teachers were enrolled. The result of the work created a demand for a permanent summer school. At Knoxville the astonishing number of over two thousand teachers were gathered at the University of Tennessee for white students. At the Knoxville College was a nchool at the same time for colored teachers. Dr. Stanley Hall said, "It is the largest summer school in the world. In num ber and interest it has never been surpassed." The President of the Southern Educational Board, says, "It has been far above and beyond anything that was anticipated." Every State in the South was represented on the program by instructors and lecturers, 'and the greatest enthusiasm was manifested in the courses offered. A great educational rally was held on the Fourth of July, when, with bands of music and flying banners, an army of women marched through the grounds of the University and listened to patriotic addresses on education. A declaration of principles was made favoring a publicschool system which shall be State-supported and Statedirected, and under which every child may have the "open door of opportunity;" endorsing local taxation and increased expenditure of money for school purposes, the development of schools along agricultural and mechanical lines, the consolidation of schools, and the professional training of teachers. When the...