The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1889-01-09

Z" Education comes from Two Latin words
- and deco, to draw cut In the city Of
Toronto a teacher told his school, Boys.
whatever you do I'll deal with you kind
! ly if you'll tell me the absolute truth, bat
7 if yoa once lie IN never believe you
as long as live" That teachers infiu-
ence is spoken ofand felt in Toronto to-
dy by merchants, bankers, etc, whose
word is their bond
Talk by DR. Houck, on the subject of
Criticism.
( Adjourned.
TUESDAY AFTERNOON SESSION.
House very much crowded.
I Superintendent Berkey remarked that
the only noise We have is from the talk
! ing. and that notwithstanding the crowd,
he hoped there would be good order.
I Music.
Instruction BY Prof. Case.
! Repetition Of yesterdays instruction
showing how to teach the sIips without
the teachers doing any singing.
Prof Langdon, OF Berlin schools, spoke
ON Discipline
Without discipline-thorough disei-
piine-the public schools degenerate and
/ the instruction in them is farce. The
lion sinks away from the defenseless ma
tive, because to man was given dominion
over the fowls of the air and the beasts
/ Of the field. The strong always rule the
weak. Oar schools are composed Of chill
( dren, and men and women are but chill
dren Of larger growth. Some Of our pu-
( pills may posses stronger will-po@er
than We ourselves, and though be may
not be obstrepercus, he viii be a source
OF trouble in every attempt at discipline.
If were a director.,Id employ no teach
er that couldn't look me square in the
eye. don't approve Of staring people
/ out Of countenance, but / do say that
I letting the eyes drop in the presence Of
strangers is an infallible sign of lack of
ability to control others. Wishing you
a happy New Year. close.
Superintendent Savage, Of Clearfeld
county, Pennsylvania. introduced the
subject of Scheol-room culture.
Z "While important that the teacher be
well prepared, it is far more important
that Re be up in the little things Of life.
( Education has to watch the child mem
/ tally, morally and physically. The ay-
erage American boy is hurried into bus
mess before he has acquired the culture
( that the common schools are designed to
I give. The teacher should somehow cap
tivate his pupils from the very begin
ming. Pupils should be marshaled with
military precision in perfect silence by
system Of signals. Never try to stop
noise by making greater one. Some
/ teachers seem 10 encourage boisterous
( play. An interchange Of eourtesies be-
/ tween pupil and teacher should be en-
I forced in every school. Smiles are the
I sunshine OF the world. There seems to
( be tradition that makes teacher and
! scholar or o6ieio enemies. This NAV be
( called the skeleton behind the door. 1t
: must be removed unless banished by the
sunlight and smiles, it will chill the en-
thusiasn and blight the aspirations Of
I the best pupils.
The great majority Of children come
+ from homes where they do not know
/ their own parents. The japanese. whom
we have been taught to regard as heaihen
peop e spend FIVE years out of seven in
the study of politeness. May we not i'm
itate their examples"
1 Music by the nstifuie-@Thervs No
Place Like Home"
instruction by DR.. Baer
aI believe in grammar; I believe in
technical giammar. We want Language
( Lessons up to twelve years oil, and We
+ want the grammar after that age A child
can't study grammar till they have Ian
guage In the first few years the percep-
I tive faculties are prominent These are
the years of what and how'-not the
! years Of why I'd rather my child
would have the correct use of language
I than 20 be able 10 solve the most diiiicnit
I problem in arithmetic, OF 20 parse the
7 most difficult sentence. 1t is possible TO
have children write correctly at nine
years old. We learn by doing Profs.
Houck and Case have acquired their abil-
ity TO carry on their lines of work by
practice.
Many pupils can't write essays because
they don't write any We want them to
write essays when they've nothing 10
say. We must give them something to
say, and must also teach then how to
say It Build up the lesson don't let
them commit the lesson; get them to re-
produce the lesson, and thus ron get in
telligent reading. Daniel Boone was
born at stoneSville, Exeter township,
Berks county, Pennsylvania"
InieTuission Of five minutes.
Music by the Institute. conducted by
Prof Case.
Instruction by Prof. Neff: How to Sc
cure Thought
~EIox shall We teach reading 50 that
pupils will study their lessons? In most
counties pupils won't study their reading
lesson at all. Teach 50 that in Studying
the lesson the getting OF the thought will
be the great thing. and in reeiting the
lesson the giving the thought is the great
thing.
lst place automatic recognition.
2nd Automatic pronunciation
Srd Command Of voice.
4th. Command Of body.
In the study of the lesson, word recog-;
milton is first word definition IS second
power to get the thought is third. In the
study Of reading the attention must be
devoted to only one thing, and in the rec
itaiion the attention must be devoted to
but one thing. Have several periods.
during which teach pronunciation ard
nothing else. Gather up the mispronun-
Citations OF the lessons, Of the school
room and of the playground, and have
them corrected at such periods. Never
allow pupils to read lesson aloud until
they have given the thought of the les
son to you in their own language. Errors
in emphasis, in infection, etc, are, the