Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1919 — COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

The Indiana State Teachers’ association was a record breaker from the standpoint of attendance this year. The teachers throughout the state were anxious to get light on lhe educational material needed during this period' of reconstruction of practically every, line of our lives. Jasper county presented a long list of names to the association roll. The great interest manifested proves clearly that teaching is fast gaining its own. Men women are determined to make the profession their life work and this probably accounts for the unusual attendance at Indianapolis last week. The dominant point in every discussionseemed to embrace the rather singular idea that our rural boys and girls are being tahght by urban =01" city-minded teachers) This not only characterizes the country class of teaching but also the small towns and small cities. Heretofore such instruction has led the young away from the farms to the cities. Now the big reform in the teaching staif is to get rural-minded teachers who will emphasize the attractions of the farm life so as to educate our boys and girls to remain on the farms and start the hitherto migration the opposite direction. State Superintendent L. N. Hines has decided to present this phase of educational reconstruction to the more local units in Indiana. He will hold rural conferences in every con•'state. Jas - per countyx is in the tenth district and the meeting for this district will be held at Rensselaer on Thursday, November 13th, in the court State Superintendent Hines, Assistant State Superintendent B. J. Burris, State High School Inspector E. B. Wetherow, State Supervisor of Agricultural Instruction Z. M. Smith forms the list of speakers at this conference. There are other speakers who will present short talks by way of round table discussions. The meeting will be held in the forenoon and afternoon. The first meeting will be called to order by State Superintendent Hines ,at 10 o’clock sharp. The meeting is open to the public, but every township, trustee, members of advisory boards, city and town school boards, county agricultural agents, county superintendents of schools, as well as principals and superintendents of city and town schools are very solicitously urged to attend.