Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-01
EDUCATIONAL.
G. D. BELDEN, EDITOR.

The Teachers Ass coiation will be held
at Dexter next Saturday, May 4, at $50
p. m. Following is tie p:ogram:
History. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Adolph Tibbitts
Primary Language WORK. Anna Fundcrhiue.
Greats5t: Common Diviscr.c:: v. " Hasiln 1.r1
Schoo! Library .........----..S. Fl: Harrison.
Bus; Work Gale Wcch.
Question 6ox........ .............J, T. Nille,.
kecj5ation. ...................... Eva Kenerson
Re usii e' Mc Sonnjs
Opening exercises for schools Anna Stokes
j. T. MILLER,
ANNA STOKES, ICOmmittee.
NELLIE MCCORMICK,)
The Dexter village school celebrated
Arbor Day last Friday The exercises
consisted OF the following features. The
Governor Arbor Day Proclamation was
read; song, by "A" class, "Summer days
are coming" Speaking, readings, reclta-
tons; song, America, by tho school.
The teacher, Mr. a. G. Adams, and the
pupils cleaned the school grosids, planted
in whic., were transp!anted some 70 vers
to beautify the grounds. They report a
very pleasant day.
Object Teaching.
READ BEFORE THE FAR1DAULr TEACHERS
ASSOCIATION BY Mr.. D. F. BANGS.
GCd has given Us five senses, namely,
sight, hearing, feeling taste and smell
What ere these i've senses for? The
sight, the hea1iug and the smell are but
open COOrs through which KNOWLEDGE
Of che material world enters the mind.
The touch IS not an open door, but rather
q d4ic;l1c instrument which feels after
the mateIIal world and draws to the mind
the wealth Of knowledge that is in it.
The touch IS the servant Of the taste,
bringing to it that which the taste may
pass judgtnen upon, using what pleascs
it and rejecting what is dlstasteful. All
the senses Iced to the mind, but sight and
hearing are the most important of the
senses for the developing of the mind,
and are closely connected. If one is lost
| the other must, in great measure, take
! It's place. The ears must be eyes to the
blind, and the eyes ears to She deaf
though Laura B1idgman IS noble exam.
! rle Of what can be done through touch.
! The mind is the measure of the man. .
! It is the mind that we wish to reach. The
question for us is how to reach AID de-
iyeloo it so that its owner may receive
the most benefit from it. In the case OF
hearlng people, that which they actually
foCC AlASAcEoCo GICIu more IOfClDJV than
any. description Of the thing seen could
BE he ever SO eloquent, an eye witness OF
any event can never make his hearers en-
terrain the same feelings that he does. MOI
isee the event as he cav it. Several care
full readings of Shakespeare's Merchan
of Venice will not begin to make thu
i impression on us that the representation
baapf it will when presented by such men q,
5ooth or Barrett These men present tn,
play 80 wildly that we find it hard to re
2 hlize that it is only representation ant
Aaot reality. So, too, the panorama
7 Jerusalem on the Day of the Crucifix
ion,' must eyer present to those VIII,
have seen it such a view of that plac,
and event as no reading can give. 1t i
q reality as we stand and contemplate it
We can almost see the various feelings a
work, and the impulses that swav tn
people. When Christ was on earth man,
OF his lessons were suggested by familia
. objects. In fact he can fairly be Gale,
the first object teacher. The Bible con
tains many lessons taken from eyervda,
objects. And these are the verv one
. that are the most forcible, the cfearest
; and those that reach even the dullest O
intellects. .@ ~ =