Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1857-10-23

Report
OF the Proceedings Of the lamMc Or1S
County Teachers Institute, hold
en- az BuckspOri, Monday, Oct.
jtll, 1857.

The Teachers Of Hlncock County,
mt at eleven o'clock at Lyceun Hall.
for the purpose ofholding a Convention.
Services opened by Prof Barnham. with
reading the Scriptures. and Prayer
Remark. by Prof. Burnham. on IN,
object Of our meeting. the excrtions and
means that would be use on the pa =, o.
the Professors to make the session
pleasant and INSTRUCTIVE, an / the capacity
on our pirt, to retain the knowledge i'm.
parted by them in the different Sciences,
and our ability to practic, them.
The importance of Teaching by the
most improved methois.-The results
arising from such proceeding, and tn,
necessity Of our becoming acquainted
with those methods, in order to become
good Teachers. Recess of fye minutes.
Prof. Chadbourne made few remarks,
stating the object Of holding Conventions,
and the benefit derived from such meet
ings, the knowledge obtained By Teacher RS
in til. Sciences usually tau ,ht in District
Schools, aud the proper manner of gov
erning Schools. Adjourned a. twelve
o clock. MARTHA A. Conn.
Bucksport.
AFTERNOON.
The Institute convened at half-past
one. Opening remarks were made by
Prof Burnham.-If we were studying
medicine, we should study man; that is,
We should investigate those laws which
govern the physical constitution Of man;
that w may know w lat remedy to pre-
scribe, when those laws are broken. We
arr here this week T. study the mind and
It's di,clses, for in or Ter to trclt the m nd
ar 5ht, w mlst thorol ,hly understand
the laws which govern it. II You W ish a
chillto be interested in what you tea ch
him, present motive for study, for mo-
tive is To the min |, what force is to mat
ter. We should know the order Of
thought. The fist emotion OF ths min
is unity, the second comparison, therefore
to teach child we mast commence wAerc
he commences, at unity. The fanlam n
tai principles Of Arithm ctic-Addition
and Subtraction-are received by the
mind of the child without effort; for in,
stance, he knows that he can hold NOR.
in both han Is than in on,, he also has an
idea of Subtraction when an object is ta-
ken from him.
A child is an initiative being, he learns
to count by hearing others, but he mis-
takes the name of the number for the
name Of the thing. We should teach
him that is . because it is next to one,
that is becaus, it is mkt to 2, &c,
and tha, the last number named is the
sum til OF the whole. A child cannot
tell how much 2 and 9 are when he can
counr one hundred, for hi, mind has not
been directed TO the combination of mum.
bcrs.
The law Of pro grass is, to use what
you have to get m,rc. La teaching
there is nothing new; we teach as we
were taught to work by oar parent,s they
taught Us to usa our oca pow ers, to ac-
what we wished, 80 teacher
should not think Tor the child, but the
child for himself The science of Math-
ematics is reflective.
1t is useless to try to induce education
farther than you can induce reflection
After recess of five minutes Professor
Chadbourne made some remarks upon
A.. .-.-~-y r.-i:se.':~-s "f 'a,"hn-
&c. First the teacher must possess an
abundance Of learning, jus. keepin, ahead
of your class has nothing of excellence in
it. No teacher can be successful without
reviewing those studies which he intends
to teach, in order to bring up an abun-
dance of illustrations.
We should have nothing to do with
the questions laid down in the book
They should rather be drawn from our
own minds. The teacher who confines
himself to the text book cannot retain
the respect and confidence of his Glass;
The next necessary publication is huen-
cy. Learning which you cannot express
is like money in the depths of the ocean;
we want the ready cash. Conscientious
ness is the third quality. Those things
that benefit the pupil most, are lost
sight of by community, but they control
the future destiny Of the child. The
true teacher is a constant learner; this
is the fourth, characteristic. The next is
to know what to keep back from the
scholar. Some do not know the differ
l.Au xho.o,,rhDase and cram