New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-06
EDUCATION.

PENNSYLVANIA STATE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
PROM Our Special Correspondent
ALLENTOWN, Penn, Aug g. The evening ses.
sion OF the first day opened with an address by Prot
j. c. Porter OF Lafayette College, on Geographical
Names" wherein illustrated the manner in which
history may be written from the character Of set
tiers and changes in population and the progress snd
decay races may be traced in the appeatons found
their tracks Following the address spirited tsls
sion the question Of compulsory attendance at school
The statistics show very large list Of absentees And
it claimed that nearly onehalf OF the pupils he
State derive no benefit from the public schools MsV
children attend school short time and at Intervals
Irregular 10 derive advantage Many Others q
not attend at ALL The State provides facilities for eds
eating all the children 1t urged, therefore that
was also the prerogatiye Of the Commonwealth
compel attendance at school Ignorance being pdaA
evil IL is the duty Of the lawmakng power to declare
nuisance and 10 abate IT, Opposed 70 these views We
the ideas OF unrestraned liberty for every parents
train his offspring the way that 10 HIM seems bol
without regard 10 the effect such training may nave
society Curious enough the German element IN the
ISOLATION decidedly in favor OF compelling par
to educate their children. The conclusion arrived
attention TO the large list OF absentee, it the duty
of the people to supply remedies.
SECOND DAY.
The business OF the second day after prayer and muse
began with report on The Relations OF the Normal
school to general system Of Education" by Prof An
Normal school should bear 'the same relation 70
teaching that our law and medical schools bear 70 ne
PROFESSIONS thhI sustain III hs'V
OF the progress Of education fully eOnyinees men ever
where; that IL Is utterly impossible TO carry on an eihe
for professional training OF teachers At first the system
OF common schools encountered violent opposition 70
and though now Normal schools are in some quarters
popular. they will be indicated by their works Hih
cy gof wel-quali1ed teachers and thus education has
Jagged behind. The establishment OF Normal schools
wherein young men and women are drilled, not only
branches TO be taught but also in the theory aud pa
ce OF teaching will rapidly Improve our schools eleTa
fIa s.raf.E and nm arHV aah nnl
teaching will thus be redeemed from the condition OF
professional Botany Bay, 10 which the failures ana
worthless vagabonds OF all other ealngs shall be shipped
In the discussion OF this report Mr. j. r. Sypher Of PAT
adephia said that he wished just here to nepose an
earnest and wecOnsdered protest against the false 40
cusation heaped the people OF Pennsylvania IN tht
matter OF education. IL l. popular In many places 70 say
the Pennsylvania Germans were, and are st Opposed
to education The accusation Is now and over was laS
Let me rece briefly the history on this point The elI
settlers came TO the shores OF the Delaware brngngH
them their preachers and their teachers ana thus s
In New England, the log church and the log schOoho~
rose side by side. This is true or tue QaaAe.'
who have been made the historic people OF ts sag
Before the arrival OF Penn. in 1854 the Dutch and sN
had their schools Following the Quakers came Tie &
mans, the scotch, the Welsh, ana the ltlsh fi.h 5
preachers and teachers. The German Reforms.
the Lutheran the Presbyterian. the Epscopaah ~.
Baptist, ana Molavlan churches, WIN seho ,,i,ent
under their patronage rose IN every settlelness,
The first seminary established in America exe,usnsg N,
the education Oi ggls was opened by me GsI.". sn
pennsylvania; these Germans also opened inc hs mi,
dayschoos IN America. 10 1873 society OF pha.ssvpn
Germans established free schools IN every county hnted
the State tree schools. supported by FUNDS
by Germans were absolutely free 10 all. The ueIln'h
were ever earnest friends of education, but II mus ~
held In mind thar these schools all under the care ~
the Church and thus the people educated 10 regau
the Church rs the custodian 81 the schools When theis
fore in 1894 IL proposed 10 take the work OF edueas
the youth OF the supervision OF the church. ana pS
IL into the hands OF the state, the Germans were uhs
ing 10 trust work 80 important 10 untried mdeII
sauctihed agencies The great love for their schools ss
not hostility 10 education led the people OF PennSy
not only the Germans but all the Christians 10 look VIZ
dsfayor experiment IN the uanlng OF tie iOus
The WORK Of the SchuOlnen therefore, not 10 Nh VIZ
la but 10 transfer tht
IN favor OF system wherein the Church was suIIs
10 another wherein the State supreme. The "OH
transfer has finally been accomplished, and now our
mans, and all others. earnest IN the upOusuIhs
the state system half century ago. they Mes ork
sloteut IN the support OF the ChuCh system lh ,Sst
accomplished we now develop the Normal system va
aualnrd teachers may be trained 10 meet the gIoNhs
demand for higher culture. The report was furtbtt US
cuSSed py NesSrs SChaeder, Burrowes and Prof CT.
A discussion THE influence OF our sCus"W
on correct speaking and writing opened by Pr0i '"
w. Woodruff Superintendent OF Chester County ,h.
In the afternoon Mr. j. n. Pierce read paper on 49,
Statistics of the Liquor Traffic" Discussion on va
Improvement the supervision OF schools was opene
by Prof j. c. GichriS who believed IL 10 be the du'{ %
the superintendent not only 10 inspect the Schools w
also arouse popular interest in favor OF good teachs
Prof s. s. Haldermaa OF Columbia read very ineres.nn
paper on etymolOgy as means OF education, wiz.
numerous instructive examples OF word-0uilding Mi
cited showing that eymology may be successfully
from the ordinary words IN language as found IN
in popular conversation Thus the word eclipse w
ind the Initial word leave, aud the word two also
twelve double dubious dou bit and twilight is therei1to
dubious. double, doubtful, light and when We ~ ~,
we hesitate between two courses. Inc root Ia -
l. appears with the idea OF fatness and breadth -
the words lateral, dtlate, plate LAX pat VI Ps'
Greapd ald u blade.