Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-05-20
TeaChers' Institute.

Teachers Institute at LhsI "
Prof. James Johonnot, of New York, de-
livered discourse upon the principie'
teaching. He commenced by the reiiiai
that he should derive his principles Vi
teaching from simple things III iai'
wav and then illustrated the various
means Of knowledge through the senses,
and showed that in that way only could
tbe mind obtain a knowledge OF those
things by which it was surrounded lie
said that many authors claimed there
were more senses than five, very many adj
ding sixth, which they termed mus
cular resistance. Sensations are produced
by things outside of US. We get know
ledge from objects through sensations by
means of the senses. Therefore the first
thing necessary to obtain a knowledge of
outward things Is sensations; the next Is
attention. We may be surrounded with
all the objects, which through the senses
produce the requisite sensations, yet with
out attention to those sensations we OBJ
tain no knowledge When attention is
given to the sensations produced they cul-
inmate in perceptions After we have
perceived things memory comes in and re-
t.ins the perceptions The memory Of in
diyidual things brings up suggestions by
which one fact suggests others stored up
in the memory and next comes associa-
ton
This is the logical connections of the
mind, and hy following this order we are
most successful in teaching. Most Of our
teaching is pornicious in this that it vio-
lrlrs the natural order Of things, and con
~i~ts almost wholly in learning individual
iaats, especially that most miserable OF all
teaching, the committing to memory the
words Of ii text book \ scholar should
never make any effort to retain in his
mind the words Of book, but the mind
should be in~tIled with ideas by an 1850
citation of the facts retained in the mem
DRY, obt lined through sensations produced
by objects 10y means Of the senses.
The power Of the mind which makes
use OF ideas to bring mp things and Oh
ient- unlike any thing which the person
has seen is Imagination. God only can
,r..t. lu+ man can discover, What Goa
has done, and the Imagination acts large
ly III bringing about those discoveries:
n. oei...,,f r..,.,,, :. ,,..,..i.+ ,ra nm;
nation in bringing about results. and then
,I7,t...,.l.N,.....,.,.
,J'a ,.nr,5 " - ''
,,,,.......,..., ~. m. -.
i,,...;,,,.;.. ,.,,, ...1-. 1.,, A.
u,,E-..;,....'....-. .t..,
,l,a .,,..,,l.,,. ,,.i.l, -. IL. -
III, ,,.,. ,,,.,,.,.
+,..-.... ., a.,
~, :,
1n..aao.,...'',.' -, ~. - -
e. a., t.,,.h. :. ..,',1
ra.-:.....1 ,.,...,-,.,..'-, ~, -,
ma
'.., ','.'' .,.'r = 10y " -
.l,.'t'..,.; -, .....,.il.,'
~.
,....t.;,
AZ ,,n h.r'.. ,,.,..,a, ...'..',..
ri
,,..,,.3. ',,-....,,....'.
sih, T., ,.l,;,,., ,.,..,,,., 49,,
,,t,..,s,l ,,,irh ,l. Al ,,i.... 90 ..,,,..,.. -,
n...l..,,.. =.
,,,.,,,.,. ......I .I.......- .,.l ,.,I.. Ill
iu,...,,,,.. ,,,.. .,, ,,,a,, ,.athir,, h,+ IA,
....f -rl......i
l,.,... ...,,,..i- $50. ...,.... - Ill H..
t-t. a,.,... .....;.... ,.,,,,,,... .l
.h.,. rh..',..,. ..'.;......,.,....
,..,;''I, ,,'I .,...'.,, e.,
TIM, ou,}i,,.s If thi,y- TIN u.,,r +h,,
l,o,,,I.l.,. +. ,,rn..i,.J r.,n.,,,.r.1 .r1
.,....n....',.; a., ,.;,,I No. ta...;,'..;',
,J......,.... ".1 ~. -. ~.
c,,,,,r.,...,...t fn,.l, ,rn .1,,...i-n Tha.
,i,,.' ,u..,, n,,l.. r,r 4i.+.,+ n.l., ~.
,,,,n ..,r l,o,,.,.l... f,a l,.;,.,. a,,1
,,...l. ,..l..... .,,..1 h,-.,,,. ..,.3 t.,.l.,I
''.',''''' '''j'''.' '',''','
''' '''-' N'''''' "a" '''' We may
''''i,' - ',''S -'' MN" ''7'' - ',''
"''' WORTH must come 'i''''''h '''' 1h
'''''''''''
,,'''''' ''''"'''' y
ne P"P'' 5'''"'.' ''' ''''' '''' ~
''
' >" ~ '''''" ""''.'
,.,,', ''''''