The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-10-29
salem County Teachers Institute.

The Salem County IcacNerS Institute
convened in the High School Building,
Salem, Monday morning, with Superin-
tendcnt r. Fl. lIolme, in the chair.
After the opening exercises Mr.. G. w.
Phillips, principal Of the schools at West
Chester, Pa, gave an account of some of
methods as he saw them in a visit to
the Quincy schools some time since.
Miss Lucy Ellis, Superintendent of
Salem city primary schools, followed with
a class of fifteen pupils, to illustrate her
plan of teaching.
Mr.. G. NJ. Phillips opened the afternoon
session by giving some ''llints in teaching
arithmetic He dwclt on practical teach
ing. The Professor closed his remarks at
3.45 p. NJ.
After a recess Mr.. E. S. Lewis gave a
reading, "a railroad matinee Follow
the reading was a discussion among the
teachers regarding the Pupils County Ex-
aminations. The subject was quite freely
discussed.
Mr.. Holme gave the teachers some in
formation concerning the examinations
connected with the State Teachers Read
ing Circle, and urged the members of the
Institute to take up the prescribed course
of reaCing.
The State Teachers Association was an
nounccd for December 2Sth, Goth and Both,
at Trenton.
Monday evening State Superintendent
Chapman lectured in the High School on
what is Education?' He expressed
great sympathy for teachers, and said they
were needy of all the aid and encourage
ment that might be giver them by the pub
lie. The teachers work is second in inn
portancc to none.
n,n a,stintcr, of. rod moro Than other is
that our schools are intellectual ones. We
are not educationg the three-fold human
powers, body, mind and soul.
Character building is the best work oil
our schools to-day. Educate a child Sc
that he will do right without a thought.
There are too many temptations around MS
for us to depend on Platonic reasoning.
Tuesday mornings session opened at 9.3t
with Scripture reading and singing. Attel
the roll-call, at which 81 teachers respond
cd, Supt. Chapman entertained the meet
ing until the arrival of the train when Z,
E. Meleney, of Paterson, 4 c. worker OF
Col. Parker, gave a lesson in teaching
geography, showing that development OF
power is the object to be attained by thai
STUDY. At eleven o'clock a short recess
was taken, after which Professor Jacobs,
of New Brunswick, was introduced. lie
delivered an excellent lecture on "Charac-
ter Building" which was very much ap
preciated.
On Tuesday afternoon Superintendent
Meleney finished his talk on teaching geog
raphy. Professor Jacobs gave a talk Oh
'sQuestioning." The art of questioning is
one of the first arts TO be acquired. The
speaker gave about thirty questions to SCI
the teachers thinking about the quality o
their work, and to lead them to study
themselves and their motives as educators
A short recess was taken, when Superln-
tendent Meleney announced the works t.
be read by the members of the New Jersey
State Reading Circle during two years
and gave Information concerning the read
ing.
After a session on Wednesday morning,
at which Supt. Barringer gave an excellen
talk on Training, and Supt. Edison one Oh
Morals and Manners OF the School Room
the Institute adjourned.
The first letter bearing the special dc
livery stamp reached Alloway post oiiic
on Tuesday of last week, and although IT