Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-11-14
TEACHERS In SESSION
sAo,s Apour TIM roUrs IDEA

many Mducattonel TOptoa hhtebll9ently
Touched Upon-tioorgs Alfred Townsend
ana his spite aud Misinformatlon.
Thursday Afternoon. After several
pieces of music had been given, Prof.
Coughlin was introduced and lectured on
the duty Of directors and patrons TO the
public schools. The stropgest point on
the school system Ia the fact OF individual
taxation. The schools belong to tho people,
not to directors or teachers. The safety of
the country does not depend on walled
cities or ranks Of bayonets, but In the
schools, where children are educated to
know and appreciate the rights and liber-
ties that belong to free citizens, and
pursue those paths that lead to
wealth and happiness. An important
duty of directors Is to SEQ that suitable
school houses are provided for the children
70 arranged and furnished that no injury
oan result to the health Of those who attend
them. Good teachers must be provided
and well paid. School visitatiou by di.
rectors Ia also an important duty, - II
encourages both teachers and pupils.
Prof. Coughlin concluded his essay by
giving humorous description Of tho old
fashioned school houses and schools.
Music.
Prof. N. G. scheatFer took the stand and
said ho appeared there to make an appeal
in behalf of his own sex. He claimed
that they had as good right to be able to
distinguish colors as their more fortunate
sisters. Yet statistios show that while q
very large proportion Of men are entirely
or partially color blind, very few women
are SO. And yet IL Is most important that
men should have perfect knowledge of
color. Railroad engineers and conductors,
officers of sea going vessels and
many others, do all their signalling
by means of oolored flags and
lamps. How important, then, for tho
public safety Is 1t that the officers In charge
Of cars or ships should bc able to perfectly
distinguish coloIs. The reason that mon
are so defective in knowledge Of oolors
is that they never study them their dress
is generally plain white and black; while
on the other hand the women dress in
many colors, AID are always studying
color. BY giving boys proper instruction
they may become as accurate In distin-
gushing colors as the girls. His method is
first To use "Froebers first gift" rubber
balls covered with different colored ze
phyrs second, color charts third, ool-
ored geometrical forms fourth, colored
crayons fifth, analine dyes sixth, pig
ments. Prof. Shaub said 1t was not neo-
easary to give more than five minutes
lesson once or twice week for q 70 "
months to establish fair knowledge Of
color in those who are color blind. He
urged teachers to take m interest in this
matter.
Music.
SCIENTIFIC TEMPERANCE
Rev. Satchel, of the Duke street NJ. e,
church, delivered q lecture on Scientific
Temperance " in the schools. There are
Ia Pennsylvania %, 900 teachers and over
l,0G0, 600 pupils. Tho magnitude Of these
figures show how important the school
system Is, and how necessary it 10 that
anything affecting the schools should be
grayeiy considered. There can be nothing
of moro importance than to consider the
moral aspect OF the schools, SO rs to fit the
scholars to become useful men aud
women. We will find that when they
enter upon life truth will be antagonized
by faisehocd, purity by impurity, tenn.
peranco by intemperancs. And it viii be
admitted that uo evil in the path of the
ynung is of greater magnitude than in
temperance. He believed in temperance
work, as it has been carried on In this and
other communities, but no confessed he
had but little faith that 1t would do any
great good. A better plan is to introduce
into the schools text books containing
descriptions of the relation of alcohol with
the human system. lie claimed that the
use of alcohol Guiokened the action OF the
heart, thus giving 1t much more work to
do than il would otherwise have. Its
action on the stomach is TO prevent diges-
tion. It's action on tho BRAIN Ia to produce
apoplexy, epilepsy, paralysis and other
diseases. It's action on the mind is Il
lower its moral toue; IL invariably in
ducns falsehood and other crimiua
practices. Rev. Satchell besought direc
tors TO introduce and teachers to make
good use Of text books such as had beer
suggested.
Music.
SUPERINTENDENT McAllister was intro
duced. After congratulating the institut,
on its numbers and the ability of workers
he said II was undoubtedly fact that N
other subject was of 80 great importano,
IA education. He was to day to speak b!
invitation on the new education" II
did not intend to speak of novelties, but o
some principles that have been long know
but are not recognized in the school room
as much as they ought to be. Our educa
tioD, so called, dates from the renaissapc
of the middle ages, when the old Gree
and Roman culture which had been los
for centuries, wss revived. The speake
paid high compliment to the old schOt
masters of past centuries, and to BaooI
Commepius, Locke and Pestalozzi, who's
methods Of instruction brought man bac
to nature. There are three periods In tn
growth OF mind First in infancy, the perio
OF sensibility the second, the period {
childhood, when the percsptive facultit
come into play; and third, youth, or th
oonceptive period. All education mu'
begin with the training Of the senses
hence the Kindergarten is the best an
most philosophio method of educating tn
very young. When the perceptive faoul
ties of the child begin to develop,
must be taught by things. Arithmet
ought not to be taught by figures who
represent things, but by the thugs then
selves. All education ought to begin
observation, and the goal should be con
prehension. Another principle OF Il
new system Is that education consists
tho training of the whole being. III
child must learn to do by doing. Physic
education was another matter advOcat,
by the speaker. The real end OF all educ
tion is right living. The speaker CALI
the attention OF directors to the importan
of q proper course of instruction in Il
schools. Wanted them to recognize &
importance of the teachers and to ri
them larger share in the selection of {
course ofstudy.
eATH's GAS.
The evening entertainment was lectu
by George Alfred Townsend, the T" CAT
of the newspapers. He entitled his lectu