The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-01-19

they would bring. We even had the
honor of the presence of few out
siders, practical friends of education
and educational matters, but it was
not turned into a lecture association,
or into u public entertainment, the
primary and principal object of which
would seem to be, the sale of reserved
seats. We all went away benefited to
meet again later on. 1t would take
too much of your space, Mr.. Editor,
to describe every succeeding institute,
but / will mention another time when
State superintendent Wickersham
was present. We had then some
other practical instructors outside of
county teachers present; such men as
Professor Cooper represented in the
last Institute and every word they
said carried with it some force and
meaning. They were not persons
who followed institutes around from
county to county to make all they
could out of them, but came because
it was their life work; because they
were practically educational men; be-
cause they were teachers of teachers.
There was always certain relation
between the title and the body of the
subject on which they spoke in the
same manner as the subjects of Pro.
tessor Cooper's remarks at the last In
stitute always had All immediate
bearing on educational matters and on
questions of weighty interest to each
and every teacher; there could not he
too many OF such men at an Institute;
but then there was no admission
charged to hear even them.
[ for one and do not doubt there
are many more, who would gladly
have paid an admission fee to hear
how some Of those teachers could read
that are teaching our children, rather
than listen to how Miss Keller could
read, who could he of no possible in
terest to us further than to amuse or
entertain us for the time being. And
what friend Of education would not
have felt proud and willingly paid an
admission fee to hear one of the
teachers, no matter from what part of
the county, who, us one of the county
teachers would have prepared and de-
livered an address or lecture OH some
subject of science or art with some
depth to it and delivered it at this
Institute for teachers.
Surely out Of such an array of pro-
tessors as we see on the minutes of the
institute, sorie would be able to de-
liver Il lecture on the particular branch
of which he or she is II professor or
"prolessorcss" We would have felt
that a0e Of the county were showing
what advancements had been made
And yet, can be wrong? 1 see by
your paper of the 18th inst, "Studi-
osus" congratulates the County Su-
perintendchL for being SO fortunate in
the employing of his lecturers! Is it
so necessary to have them that they
must be employed even at any risk?
"Studiosus" says, Let us have some
more such Institutes - He might on
that occasion, if not sooner, consult
that WOrcester's indeXed Dictionary,
which l heard the County Superin-
tcndent recommending; or it might
possibly be found in "a smaller book,
Sanders or Monroe's common school
speller forinstance, and there, during
the interim i'll which neither wild
flowers or clover blossoms can be
gathered to teach aesthetics, "Studio-
sus might earn how to spell "cited.n
If | have stepped on any ones toes,
or probcd any ulcer, / have done it in
The interest of reform in County
Institutes in particular and education
i'll general and you may lay it at the
door of A. WOMAN.