The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-11-22
District Teachers' I~nssItuss-a Largo
kfteDGanee Of TaechSrR.

District Teachers' InssIfGss-A Largo
Attendance OF TeeChsFe.
The weather on Saturday being
very p5opFitious, there was a largo
attendance OF teachers at the Insti-
tuto, which assembled at the Upper
Grammar School Building, az 9
O'Clock An, and proceeded TO bust
ness, pursuaut to Adjournment.
The ninutea of the previous meet.
ing were read and adopted. after
which the Association entered upen
the discussion Of experiences In tse
school room.
Prof. j. ". knight rslstea 6szs
observations that he had mads IL re-,
gard to the manner IN whioh some
pupils conduct themselves Ia she
school room. He said that he noticed
In some District Schools that naRy Of
the pupils make it a b~asiusss, SurisS
school hours. to como up 10 the taeoiS
er with unimportant questions, sad
thus interrupt him while be il sn-
gagged in hearing . recitation. he
said that he objected to il, Assssae
such frequent masterpieces Of TIE
teacher would not eHabls AiA ts Do
Justice to the recitation class. May
ofthe teachers expressed tktip 7ts#s
on the subject, after whieh tSS fol-
lowing resolution svAs TnsRiEoU4ly
adopted:
Resolved, That it Is improper for
pupils in school 20 come Cd to the
teacher and annoy hin with uHir-
portant questions while he is eEgAEed
in hearing q recitation.
The use of the rod u Il tae Sshesi
room received considerable eftsAti3a
and elicited quite 4 discussion. The
teachers expressed themselves freely,
and it was genefslly b&liess2 thai
corporal punishment in mary sf ths
schools was > "Essessity," uitkeut
which no teacher could snsesSa.
Prof. j. w. knight rel ste2 seEs
incidents in his ~expeFie5e4 c= .
teacher, which east considerable
light upon the subject of eshesl gov
eminent.
J. Wyttenbach held that The " rod /"
/ ought to be considered ~ q " 1e~1fg
in the school room, and very sIariAgly
used, if used at all. and then oEly in
extreme cases. He said that he
thought that the time uozi6 seen
come when tie use OF tko red in tie
school room would Be satiPsly nbol-
ished, and when that Grtiek would be
| looked upon as q " Falie ef kaRbar-
| ISM" 1t was held thEt the CoaYts in
the State Of Indiana, and many eiksr
/ States, would soetsiR the teaahcE in
making judIeious use OF the rod.
The question was asked whstheR il
would be proper to make Pupils apollo
0izs for oHenscs committed at SCHOOL,
Some of the teachers were strongly in
1 favor of it, while others were Es
/ strongly opposed to it. Il We held
that forced apologies, in a majority Of
1 cases. would be insineere, and thus be
mnra detrimental than beneficial both
to teachSr and pupil.
j. W. Davidson then took up the
subjec. Of Spelling. He presented 3
methce of teaching it to primary and
adyanaed classes. He stated that he
considere1 it important to have schol-
ars write their spelling lessons, upon
which he requested the teachers to go
to the black board and write the words
which he gave out.
j. Wyttenbachs demonstrated the
process Of extracting the cube root
by means Of blocks. He explained
the meaning Of the words tsinvolu-
ton and evolution; also power,
root, index and exponent. He PER
formed an example in cube root on
the blackboard. and explained it. He
also explained the process Of extract
ing the cube root of common and
/ decimal fractions. and then demon
strated tho different a%pplieations Of
cube root.
j. Henuel then presented q Eethed
OF teaching English Grammsr ts phi