22 INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF EDUCATION. 
of this congress will be to throw a flood of light upon this subject, and 
‘he old and the new will be bound together as they never have been in the 
past in the education and lighting up of the moral powers of the child that 
is placed within our limits. 
\DDRISS BY MRS. CHARLES HENROTIN, VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE WOMAN'S 
BRANCH OF THE WORLD'S CONGRESS AUXILIARY. 
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : The president of the Auxiliary, 
in his excellent address, to my mind did not mention the greatest factor 
in the new education. I see by the smiles on the faces of my sisters 
that they have divined what it is. That is the entrance of woman into 
the educational arena. She is found as the link between the child and the 
university, stretching out her hand, it is true, for the cap and the gown, but 
holding tight with the other band the little child in the nursery. To my 
mind the entrance of woman means practicality in education. The kin- 
dergarten is here to stay with her. Manual training, sanitary conditions 
of schools are here, and while the universities will still flourish. the kinder- 
garten will be all over the land. 
As T have spoken of woman’s practical influence, I shall confine myself 
for my part to two practical suggestions. Ome is that you visit and care- 
tully study those wonderful educational exhibits at Jackson Park. We as 
a composite race can there see what is so essential to the development of 
our schools—England with her exact classical education, France so beau- 
sifully generous always to art, and Germany with her scientific and tech- 
nical training. It is invidious really to mention any, they have all been 
30 splendidly generous toward us. The study of them will help us greatly, 
oecause we need not only thought, but the thought of all nations, for our 
aarmonious and right development. 
Then another practical thought. In attending all these sessions I have 
been impressed with the cry of each one that there is no standard of edu- 
sation to start from. Uniformity is a word tremendously abused in the 
cast 3 but in all humility, to such an assembly as this I submit this 
suggestion, that the National Educational Association shall endeavor to 
establish in each city, whether under the State or the government, a Burean 
+f Education, in which every person who aspires to teach, whether in the 
private school or public school, shall obtain a license. That is the system 
adopted in France with splendid results, and I think if it were once inau- 
gurated in our land it would give us a firmer basis on which to establish 
the newer education. And I will tell you for Chicago that you can say 
here just what you please. We have no prejudices to be shocked. In fact, 
we are very much like Athens of old, eager to see and hear always some 
new thing. (Applause.) 
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