The daily gazette., 1880-08-28
THE DELAWARE IN tCHERs.
CLOSING SESSION AT REHoBoTd-ELEC
TION OF OFFICERS.

CLOSING SESSION At REHOBOTh--HLEC-
TIoN OF oFFIcERs.
During the session of the Delaware
Teachers' Association at Rehoboth on
Thursday, the following officers and
committees were chosen
President-W. A. Reynolds, of Will
mington.
Vice observation-disclosures Worrall,
New Castle county NJ. Heath, Kent
county T. N. Williams, Sussex.
Executive Committee-Rev. J. NJ.
Williams, Wilmington Sarah Fell.
Wilmington Prof. ]. I'll. Groves,
Smyrna J. A. Fulton, Esq, Dover
Nick. Downham, Georgetown.
Committee on Neerology-F. Eden
Bach, Wilmington 1. Ii. George, Mil
ford Sallie G. Ross, Lewes.
Committee on Finance-D. s. Ellis,
Frederick II. G. Carpenter, Lewes /;
Emma Worrell, Wilmington.
The Committee on Resolution also
submitted repo,t. They recognize the
neces sty If T. acLers striving to possess
and exhibit as high type OF mental
and moral manhood as they are capable
Of aitaii.ine: asking school commsssion-
ers aud trustees TO furnish their teach
ers with suitable appfratu to aid them
IN the study and pra tice of new and
improved M 4thods of instruction; create
a conn ittee of three from each county
to confer with the State Board of Educa-
tiou and the Trustees of Delaware
College for he pu pose of presenting to
the next Legislature some t, a,ible plan
for the establishment and support of
Normal Department, 10 be connected
with Delaware College; deplore the
irregularity and uncertainty that exists
in many school districts in reference t."
the employment and retention Of teach
ers, growing out of the levying Of school
lax; request the next Legislature to
place the School Tax law upon the same
basis as regular State tax laws; request
Superintendent Groves to lay this mat
ter before the State Legislature in his
next rep 'rt to that body, aud believe
that it would accrue to the highest il =
terest of education throughout the State
if there were but one school law,
applying alike to the whole State.
In the evening Chief Justice Comegys
delivered lecture on "Teac ers, their
relation 10 their pupils and the duties
and responsibility growing out of it,
Teachers he said had two objects-in-
struction and education of youth a
distinction with difference as the one
term related to the mind and the other TO
the moral characCrr. Their duties were
most important. To them was commit
ed.the training of the children who are
to fill every walk of life in the future,
and as they bent the twig the tree would
grow-as they directed the child it would
surely develop in accordance with that
dir, ction. They impart instruction to
the mind and mark out the moral pat!.-
way. You say parents should look after
the morals of their children. True, but
the fact is in this day aud generation
they do not and you therefore must. Yoi
aro the lOcdi parents and should no
only cultivate their minds and moral
bu dmand OF the obedienc to to you
authority and enforce that demand il
the best way possible.
You must subdue the will of the
scholar to your own will. If the child
be obstinate, cure the evil by gentle
means if possible but in the event Of
failure don't spare the rod, for, if you
do, your school-room will soon be-
come a nursery of insubordination.
Discipline of the rod is no degradation
in fact. 1t is only corporeal punish
ment inflicted to vindicate the majesty
OF the law that is degrading. He had
but little respect for that sickly senti-
ment that would spare the rod and
spoil the child. Many a time the
speaker had been thrashed in school,
and he knew many men eminent in
life to-day who had shared the same
treatment, and neither he nor they re-
garded it as disgrace.
You must control the child, not be
controlled by it. You must not only
t, ach your scholars, hut you will find Il
lcessary to make many of them un.
|. arm the lessons of self >hness, bad
anners and worse morals, which too
indulgent parents, uneonsciously per.
haps, have incuiclted. Don't excite false
hopes of great things In the lives of your
pupils, for young men and women have
been uined by untru,htnl assurances OF
talent when none existed. They go out
In life expecting an easy conquest, but
meet with crushing de efeat. The old her
esy that any and almost every bright boy
may become President of the United
States has worked incalculable harm,
aud should be taught no longer. Bright
\ n ass in youth is frequently nothing but
precocity. 1t means, generally, that the
mind is already developed. The mind OF
the prodigy is usually of hot-bed growth,
bora to wither at life's first frost blast
Such mind has no force or stability,
and belongs to the light Infantry ia life's
mental battles. The dullard, so called
most dimes because his mind is of slower
growth than that of the precOci GUS youth,
will not unfreQuently develop into a
strong, ac' and well marked eharac-
ter. Again he urged that the mind,
morals and manners of the child be edu-
Gated, and that the child be made to un-
derstand, by proper discipline, that lax
| i;y in government IS worse than no gov
ernment at all.
At the conclusion of the lecture the
| Association adjourned until its next ar
nual meeting.
| RIDING ON LOADED WAGONS.
So much of this cruelty has been done
| lately too entirely ,aud IL must be stopped.