The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-07-31
GERMAN TEACHERS TALKING.
College Rows and Other Disorder n Resuit
OF Modern Instru elton.

For their second days session the German
American school teachers met in Liederkranz
Hall Two hundred teachers brought in drip
ping umbrellas There were two sessions. one
from TO 10 A. NJ. and the other from 3 10 6 T. NJ
Literary exercises were tho order Of the day
The teachers were brought TO order by vgor-
GUS pounding with n mallet 10y the President
who began TO despair Of breaking on the social
talking going on in every part Of the hall. Mr.
W. Mailer Of Cincinnati speaking OF the mech
anism or the routine in American schools
attacked the system Of strict rules. The con-
certed motions which pupils IL large schools
must go through tend. he said, to make the
children too mechanical. The most manly and
womanly qualities are stunted by this training.
Even silence in school. he urged. is too much
insisted on. The sense Of honor should bo
more frequently appealed 10. ard good manners
should be taught College rows. continued he
are increasing in violence constantly The
cause IL the instructive attempt Of students 10
escape from rules that often ought not to
be Obeyed. unless voluntarily, such ~ the
marking system, whereby student. by staying
away from morning chapel n fow times, may
hurt his standing in college. H. Puritan times.
when colleges were small. and habits OF life
necessarily simpler than now; such rules were
practicable; but the college has outgrown Its
DR.. Donai defended the routine system Of
schools against Mr.. Mnller's attack. and said
that routine is the outgrowth OF experience in
school teaching.
Dr. Sedan sided with DR.. Donai. saying that
many OF the set rules in schools arc not under
stood by children. who are afterward punished
for these unwilling violation Of rules 1t is. he
said. generally impossible for pupils 10 get
proper culture In manners nj home.
Then. Mr. ii. Schuricht, Principal OF public
school in Newark started out 10 read an essay
on the History OF American Education" Half
an hour time was allowed 10y rule for the read
ing Of the essay. Mr.. Schuricht used up fifteen
minutes with tho education OF the ancient
ANecs in Mexico. and followed the Central
American tribes down into South America. He
was hounderng in the intricacies Of the antique
Peruvian education when his half hour expired
and he had not yet touched tho United States.
He was approaching, however and must UNI
| doubleday have arrived at the national confines
| by sunset
Then Mr.. J. Keller Of Hoboken reported that
$2i 900 IL the result Of three years collections
| for tho founding OF II German American Nor
NAL school. II IL to bo opened on Sept 2, In
| Milwaukee, with tho German American Acad
envy already established director remains
In the afternoon, Mrs Kraus- R0lte and her
| husband, Prof. J. Kraus. OF . West Twenty
| eighth street spoke on the Froobol system the
| kindergarten. Mrs raus-B0lte carried n
| lovely bouquet in one hand and her manuscript
| in the other. Arrived on the platform, she laid
| her bouquet in q chai r. and spoke for over an
| hour. Before the time for her husband 10 speak
most Of the audience had quit the room. In tho
| evening social reunion was held in Turn Hall,
| when much beer was made away with. and the
| teachers delivered speeches, complimentary,
adulatOry, and explanatory.