The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-01-12
WHOLE No. 40.

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ton have been characteristics. Aud bere
10 the name of the Board of Directors, and
personally. extend thanks to John liam
mond for the uprightness of purpose and
fidelity with which his trust has been ex
eouted. Credit is also due to E. Borton,
Esq, of Emporis, the Superintendent o.
Construction for the faithful manner in
which the duties incident TO that Office
were discharged.
Connected with the normal school
movement in Ka sas is another agency
which. although NOT brought to its fulfill
ment, is deserving of mention and com
mendatiou. Oas ofthe serious hindrau-
ces TO the progress of the school has been
found in the high prices paid by the stu
dents for board, TO which should be added
the difficulty of obtaining ,ard at any
price. To supply students with the priv
Ile5es Of 4 home at reiuc.d cost, a Joint
stock company, known as the Normal
School Boarding House Association has
been Incorporated, whose pu' pose is the
construction of conImodioGs ediGce to
be used by Normal students as boarding
house. Stock to the ammount of some
eight thousand dollars has been taken,
and the building commenced. The re-
suit of having such a house cannot be
otherwise than beneficial to the school.
The credit of originating this enterprise,
aud prosecuting it thus lar is due, in great
measure, 10 the Rev. G. G. Morse, the
authorized agent Of the Association.
ought not to close this part of my
work without some statements concern
ing the objects of the Normal school,
with as clear statements as can make
about its distinctive characteristics.
take brief passage from the Principals
report for 1866
The Normal School is for the educa
ton Of teachers, and bears the same re
latioB 10 their work that the medical col
lege does to the work of physicians. or
the law school to tina; of the attorney and
counselor. 10 it are taught the essential
principles of all true education, the laws
OF the Development of the child's mind
and the details of the teachers work in
the school room, and in his social inter
course with pupils and parents. That
part OF school economy which relates TO
the general management and government
of schools, is reds 10 system and care
fully studied. The duties cf the leachef
as citizen of the republic, are thought
about in a way to inspire every student
teacher with an active interest in the vel
fare If our State and nation, and due
sense of the responsibilities that rest up
on him simply by reason of his member
ship in the great national family. An
enlarged patriotism should be a part OF
every teachers stock in trad. In our
American civilization We do not want a
servi!e following Of old forms, nor tenac-
ious adherence to precedents, as such, nor
blinded faith in authority and cring
log reverence for those who sit in high
places but We do need sufficient rev
erence for our public offices of honor aud
trust to induce in us willing aud cheer
tui obedience to authority exercised by
right of filing those offices, and we do
need such respect for the established
order of things-as, for instance, our
r publican form of government, or
Na,ional Consti ut or, and NIB RI right
to liberIy-that we shall not easily Goa
sent to changes which. by any possible
construction, will involve US in the loss
of our national probty and selfrespect.
The seeds of whatever fruit our govern
ment would offer 10 the world, must be
planted in our free schools, aud whatever
principles We would have inculcated in
these schools. must be made the inher-
tauce OF the teachers therefore it is part
of the work OF the Normal School TO
supply instruction on the FIRST principles
of our national government, the rights
and duties of its ciIizens, and the means
of teaching 10 others reverence for holy
things, respect for just authority, and
that self-control which enables Us to live
pure and noble lives unspotted by the
presence of weakness and wrong doug.
In the Normal School, the same
means are employe 10 the education Of
lis students as 10 other institutions OF
learning. The same text books are used
classes are formed in the same way, and
recitations conducted as is usual. There
is this important difference, however
! In other schools the end to be attained
ia each recitation is knowledge on the
part of the students of the principle
under consdtra Tor. La the Nouns
/ School this thorough understanding oil
the lesson is but the means ]; the end is
the ability to teach the same principles
10 others. In the Normal classroom
the student is required to anaIyze eact
mental process by which he arrives a
conclusions and the question is eve
before him, how can Ibe demonstration
be divided into parts, SO that each shal
be within reach of the child's mind. ant
tben what is the logical order of arrange
meut by which these may be put togeth
er so that the pupil can grasp The whole
and also be able 10 trace .he relations o
the parts, each to the others.
h The art Of teaching every branch o
study pursued may, therefore, be men
). toned as the distinctive feature of 81
teachers College
!, Before closing this paper, let me as
you to take an outlook upon our coadi
lion, and what the coming days shal
bring TO Us 10 our educational vineyard
; That period 10 Roman histofy when tb
4 proud city reached lis highest point c
culture and refinement at home, and al
tanned its greatest power aud Weall
abroad is, with fitting phrase, called tn
i Golden age. thus TO express it's afauenc
and magnifcenee.
i / believe, my friends. that re ar
coming to our ''goldea age' 10 educa
!. Cional history. and that il Is reserved &