land of mystic promise or legendary fiction; no mythical garden of the 

 gods; it is now and for all times the land of possibilities — in a word, It is 

 more, for it is the realm of realization. California, with its surpassing beau- 

 ties and lofty grandeur of scenery, the marvelous fertility of its soil, its 

 unsurpassed and unrivalled climate, will so impress the visiting teachers that 

 they will, year after year, narrate their personal experiences in California 

 to the children in their classrooms. 



San Francisco is to-day in a transition period from the old to the new 

 and greater San Francisco, for upon the result of the investment of 

 $17,000,000, the extent of the bond issue, largely depends her future. It 

 is consequently beneficial to have a convention of the character of that of 

 the National Educational Association, for the advantages to be derived are 

 reciprocal. The discussion of educational affairs alone must tend to the 

 incalculable advancement of our institutions of learning. The problems 

 that are now receiving the attention of educators will be fully and ex- 

 haustively discussed. Such matters as industrial education, compulsory 

 attendance, vacation schools, free lecture courses for adults and for chil- 

 dren, school construction and sanitation, will receive the attention of the 

 assembled educators. As the result of all this, we cannot but be greatly 

 benefitted. It should therefore be the duty of every citizen of California 

 to unite in extending a welcome to the educational delegates who are 

 shortly to visit our State; not only that the educational advancement of our 

 pupils may be attained and accomplished, but that the marvelous, unsur- 

 passed resources of our unrivalled State, may be heralded throughout our 

 country, through such intelligent media and advertising agencies, as the 

 teachers who will assemble in this city during the coming National Edu- 

 cational Association. 



Great Welcome Promised 



JAnE5 A. BARR. 



CALIFORNIA welcomes the coming of the National Educational Associa- 

 tion to San Francisco in 1906. The enthusiasm displayed by the 

 8,000 farmers, librarians, school trustees, teachers, assembled at 

 Berkeley to confer on educational questions is but a beginning of the 

 greater enthusiasm that will welcome the national body. And this 

 is as it should be. The coming of thousands of leaders along all lines 

 of educational thought from all the states in the Union and from all the 

 nations of the world will mean much to California. 



The Association is the great national parliament for the consideration 

 of all educational questions. Its reports have been a power for good in shap- 

 ing the educational work of America. The meeting in San Francisco will 

 help California not a little in solving the many questions of policy now 

 agitating the schools of the State. New light will be thrown on such 

 questions as the relation that education should bear to agriculture, and to 

 the various industries, the relation of the universities to the work of the 

 high schools, the relation of the library to the school, salaries and tenure 

 pensions, the rural school problem, course of study, etc., etc. 



Meeting as the Association does in July, It will be possible for every 

 teacher in California to attend the session. It has been eighteen years since 

 the Association met in San Francisco; it will be many years before Cali- 

 fornia is favored with another session. Every teacher in California, every 

 teacher on the Pacific Coast should arrange for a week's outing at the 

 educational mecca that will attract thousands from the Middle West, from 

 the South, from the Atlantic Coast. 



Sessions will be held not only in San Francisco but at the University 

 of California and at Stanford University. The sessions of the National 

 Association and the summer schools at Berkeley and San Jose will furnish 



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