Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-29
DR. MAYO'S LECTURE
Delivered Vest 'rday Before the Public
AID Private School Teachers Of
Memphis at the High School.
The Right and WroBg Way of Teaehir g
Schools should be Connected
With Nature and Business.

By invitation OF superintendent Collier, |
fully 100 teachers gathered at ths High /
S;hool.rooms yesterday forenoon TO greet
Dr. Mayo and TO hear hi3 sPesk on national
methods of iss r1c'ion.
DR.. M,vo Glands high az an educslions! |
su.aority IN this counrF, and his vs.'s 10 |
me South are most eagerly looked for~ard !
to BY all people in,erested in educational
matters. Tue APPEAL extends % d.. Ma 20 |
q most hearty welcome to Memphis.
Superintendent Collier Introduced DE- |
MAYO 10 a few well chos n word, waen he |
spoke in substance so follow:
There il Just noEla great stir in The edu-
catfonal Wur over wnat are khoSn 81 the
NV methods Of education, known az the
natural nethods Of instruction. Ga this theme
1 Will address you this morning. There l.
a iigM way Of doing everything, bu. one
right wsy. This way is the scientific wsy, i
is GODS way. The natural method Of teach
ing is amply Gol's wsy OF TEACHING Us ss
We pass through thls world, aud God hes
70 sds the divine revelation OF this way 10
wam sn, who fret receives the child 10 lead
and train ald teach. This ciew-the true
mothers treatment If the child-wss caught
and developed by the great Pestaiozz,, the
German teacher Of 100 year, ago. Pesta'
lszzi found the educational systems OF Ed
rope all gone ssir2y iu,o emLiricisms and
pIOlrClE RIdt nave CNI5cu OUI GuuCAitOu ShO
our race. PestslCzz, issuei 4 little tract.
allow Gertrude Taught Her Children"
From The treatment OF the mother 10 her
child he found out the natural way Of train
| ing children ia the schools Il happened to
| De my fortune to BE- thrown into The company
| OF a lew people on the shores OF
| Lake Champiain. Ia the company vas
| baby. During the three mon hs there this
child was constantly learning, snd iu the
| three montns | venture that this child
learned more th,n any student has ever
learned in aHy university ia three years. Is
desire to know was gratihed by being 0'ous ut
in contact with things, with people aad vita
every living creature about the place. TIE
natural method was adopted eyery where aud
IN everything. Oljsct lessons taught every
thing. With caiiGfen generally this MATERIAL
method is continued 10 the skin year. Now
| comes the change. The child is taken Gu, OF
the true school Of nature and pJt down to a
book Nature is dice tEded With her me. he'd i,
for the narrow, contracted methods OF he
school mssier-oommittiog from books sud
rsciting from books, without reference TO any
thiug on earth. The great obi &C. ia view IL
to q Z upon methods OF teaching toe subjects
OF the gchools an the n1tursl, the mother
way. DR.. Mayo then took up he most com
mon school branches, and IN a most delight
fully entertaining way cOnlrased the old rots
methods of teaching with the uaIursl methods
ofteschIng the same branches Certainly every
one Of the teachers present obtsined prsc
teal benefit in the live, earnest ideas Of
nssssrui Iaetlsods OF instruction. D. Mayo
urged that the schools should be in every
way connected win nature AID with busI.
ness; that children should be taught con
cerning things and events at the same tine
that they becoming femi lar With bo5k4
LIST this be done and your business meo wall
soon come to appreciate the beneh's Of the
schools, and you will not lack ME sns 20 carry
forward youc WORK. DE-. Mayo CLOSED b.
ssyiug the natural method tvert fore will b.
the taxing the child by tse baud and leading
him up and out where God in His nature
anu His providence may reach him with ali
those blessed, bsnehcen: iuh lenc.s which n
throws about HIS creatures. Tners are iva
win5o.e TO every child ia this city
there is the window winch looks cut into
the dark, sunless alley, where plant viii
wi,her aud die, and there is another window
where Code sunlight streams in to glorfy
every or AZURE that may come Yiihin 10
light and beauty. And, my lriends, If you
only be instrumental in lesding one lite
fIsaken caild away from the darkness intl
she liga;, where IL may develop the soul 81
has given IL, you shAii not lose your reward
The doctor will deliver puhiic lecture dur
ing the week, on Allow Does Universal Ed
ucation Psyp Ga Saturday next be addresses
the Teachers Institute, taki1g for his cub
ject, Chow to Teach q Shoot"