The Opelousas courier., 1885-04-11
Teachers Institutes.

$1,000
STATE SUPERINTENDENT FOR
MEETINGS DURING THE
YEAR.
The State Superintendent of
Public Education has issued the
following circular to parish
school superintendent
'In conformity with that spi-
rit of progress which recognizes
in the education of the people
the only reliable pledge for their
morality and good government,
the Legislature of the State of
Louisiana acceded to the estab-
lishment of a State normal
school. The acknowledgement
of the defects of oqr present
system has very properly led to
earnest endeavor to correct its
faults. The creation of a State
normal school is supplemented
by the organization OF teachers
institutes, to be held in differ
ent parts OF the State, and the
establishment of the normal
schools in itself insnres the hold
ing of such Institutes every year.
They will be continued during
the months of May and June,
under the auspices of the State
normal school, in aid of the Pea
body fund, and will be conduct
ed by the president and profess
sor of the State normal school,
the State superintendent of Ed
ucation, and such eminent edu-
Gators from various parts of the
country as the peculiar wants of
teachers may seem to require.
"These teachers Institutes, it
is intended, shall be short nor
NAL school sessions for the ben
eft of those who are now engag-
ed il the public schools. They
will be devoted to the consider
alton of the theory and practice
of teaching and school manage
ment and Improvement IN the
methods OF teaching the various
branches OF study pursued III the
public schools Of the State.
The Institutes must OF Ne
cessity tend to the elevation VI
the teacher, the development OF
the schools and tue growth OF
Interest in all matters pertain
ing 10 education and progress.
| They should, therefore. meet
with the hearty co-operatloit 81
all true teachers and the. friends
of education III general, and II
should become needless to re-
quest all parish superintendent
to urge the teachers Of their dis
tricts to attend these meetings.
For the present year the fol
lowing places have been select
ed, accessible to aiarge number
of teachers Shreveport, May 4,
10, 6, z and s; Alexandria, May
III, 10, 13, la and 10; Opelon-
sas. May Is. 10, 20, 81 and %
Lake Charles, May %, 26, u, rs
and %; New Iberia, June |, 2,
IL, 4 and 5 Thibodaux, June 8,
10, 10, II and IL.
1.-TWO sessions will be held
each day, viz: From 8 O'Clock
a. m. until noon aud from 3 to
5 b. m. The course ut each OF
the Institutes will include coia
sideration of the principles and
theories of teaching, moral and
mental development, school dis
eipline and methods Of teaching
object lessons, reading, writing
arithmetic, geography and sing.
ing. Public lectures will b
delivered on Tuesday and Thurs.
day evenings"
The State Superintendent vii
also issue a special circular t
parish school superintendent
requesting them to make suita
BILE arrangements for holding
the institutes, and he will leave
on the Ia. M. train tomorrow
for New Orleans for the purpose
of making arrangements Will
the Morgan. Texas Pacific AM
Queen and Crescent Railroad
flor reduced rates to teacher
who may wish to attend th'
meetings announced above.
The maximum speed OF pas
senger trains in England Is
tride over seventy kliometef
~ L;lanafer IS almost eXacttl