Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-21
THE TEACHERS.
The Monthly Meeting Observation-Disclosures
ing Paper by Miss Beals.

The Monthly Meeting Yesterday-Interest-
ing Paper by Miss Beals.
The monthly meeting of teachers of the
public schools was held at the High School
yesterday forenoon. The meeting was well
attended and great interest was manifested
in the proceedings.
The exercises commenced with an illustra-
ton of the best method to be employed by
teachers in the incubation of the art of
reading, to demonstrate which model class
of fifteen scholars were employed under the
management of Miss A. V. Wright.
The illustrations were confined to reading
in the fourth grade, and the exercises were
very interesting.
Selections were read by the members of
the model class, and the pronunciation, in
Election, articulation and gestures of the
pupils were freely discussed, eiciting diverse
and widespread criticism.
An able paper followed by Miss Nj. A.
Beals from the committee on instruction in
the public schools. The lady chos. as a
subject "Moral Instruction in the Public
Schools and the theme was treated with
rare discernment, the subject matter of the
essay demonstrating that much time had
ject. In commencing her remarks she
voiced the following sentiments:
There is motto among the old French
nobility, the proudest and most ancient in
Europe, that we might well take for our own:
"Noblesse Obllge," our privilege compels u.s.;
| the privilege in our case, of being servants
of the pnblic., of being entrusted with the
education of the next generation, of try
ing with all our strength that the next
generation may be brighter and better than
| those already past; these privileges compel
US to try in every way to show our apprecia-
ton of the task we have voluntarily as
sumed. We are all willing to acknowledge
that We are, as yet, cropping in the
dark for the answer to the queftion, "what
is true education?"
The earliest schools of the ancients cult
waited the ply steal nature almost exclusively;
then gradually attention was paid to the moT-
al and intellectual as we'll, until, at last, in
their most perfect state, the schools included
all three. In our schools the culture of the
intellect has nearly swallowed up the whole
| field and now comes creeping in the question
| of the moral nature, which will gain greater
and greater Importance, and the schools of
the future will probably try to entrance all
tuTco lUedS u du cuuCdtSU PHYSICAL, lutoll6C-
tual and moral nature.
Continuing in this strain, the speaker ad-
verted to the want of moral stamina in mod
ern civilization, and to the urgent need of
higher actuating motives in the affairs of hu-
mainly. The speaker wisely reasoned that
good moral training is even more important
| to the well being of the citizen and State
than exclusive education in arithmetic, geog-
raphy and grammar. The speaker argued
that the time devoted to moral training in
the schools should be made period of
pleasure, and that it should not be designated
| by the bugbear name of "moral instruction -
A comprehensive outline was given of the
best methods to be employed by teachers in
the noble art of moral culture, to accomplish
| which the speaker advocated the employ
ment of such examples as singing, music,
poetry, Rotations, biographies, stories,
kindness to animals and compositions on
school end patriotic subjects.
! On motion, the committee on moral train
| ing YVES made to consist of Messrs. Bsals,
Cummings and Tice.
| Remarks followed by Profs. Campbell and
Taylor, the latter agreeing with all that had
been said. He, Prof. Taylor, said that the
popular sentiment would have to be edu-
Gated to take part in the school work. The
| speaker adverted to the value of proper home
| influence as indispensable to the moral train
ing of the child, expressing the idea that in
struction in the schools would be of little
avail without the cooperation of parents in
maintaining proper hume influence. Prof.
Wright offered q few sensible suggestions,
after which the session closed with music by
the Misses Hitchcock and Wright.