Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
RELIGION In SCHOOLS.
The Question Brought Up at the
Teachers Institute Meeting.
DR.. MOSS TACKLES THE SUBJECT.
He Makes Plea for the Moral Side of
the Pupils Training.
MOSS TACKLES THE SUBJECT.
SUPERINTENDENT LUCKEY'S ANSWER.

The public school teachers of Pittsburg
attended the second days meeting of the
institute in force yesterday at the First
Methodist Protestant Church, on Fifth ave-
nue.. Superintendent Luckey presided,
Miss Mary Palley's pupils sang song. and
the Rev. Leonard F. Eaton made short
prayer.
DIR. A. E. Maltby, of Slippery Rock, Pa,
delivered an address upon the subject OF
''The Realistic Forces in Education"
Alter a review of the history of education to
the present day, the speaker advised teachers
to inculcate lessons in their pupils which
would directly benefit them in after life.
This address was followed by one in which
Hon. G. NJ. D. Eccles, of Shippensburo.
spoke of "The Teacher in the Schoolroom."
He paid high compliment to the Pittsburg
school system. He said that the schools
were an honor to the city, as he had gone
through them, and was convinced that the
teachers had nothing to be more proud of
than the grand work of education they were
furthering through their most excellent
system OF teaching. He was unable to visit
any of the schools of Allegheny, but was in
formed that they were abreast with Pitts
burg.
WANTS BETTER EDUCATION.
"How Nav We Educate Better" was the
subject OF DIR. T. Z. Moss address, and it
ELECTED great deal of interest. Before be-
ginning his talk the audience at his request
rose and sang America" He insisted
that true education consisted in teaching
the whole being. In Pittsburg the health
and strength of the body is almost totally
IL.
tached to the public schools. 1t would
seem that the instructors were not aware
that the children have soul or a con-
science.
No attention, he said, was paid to the true
goal of education, the preparation of
children Ior the battle of life
In no other business were there
so many conservative people as among
school teachers. The trouble was that most
of these people did not consider their pupils
when they invited their own particular
method. A method to prove satisfactory
must have some consideration for the capa-
bilities of the pupil.
RELIGION IN THE SCHOOLS
The doctor paid a high tribute to the
German system, which he said cultivated
the pupils thinking powers, physical
powers and moral powers He did not |
IHlnh lHdI Tue EOItSldHL Iedc0eTS SQOQIQ be |
greatly offended when their Catholic CO.
temporaries speak OF the godlessness of the |
public schools. He was of the opinion that |
religion should 60 hand in hand with |
secular training, and that the result would |
be that the moral education of children |
would be greatly furthered.
Superintendent Luckey took issue with |
DIR. Moss in regard to religion in the schools.
He said that if intense religious instruction |
I
Germans, he did not want religious instruc- |
tion in American schools. 1t was impossible
to give secular and religious instruction in
the public schools.
AT THE COOKING SCHOOL.
Elbow room was at a premium at the
Cooking school reception at the Grant
school yesterday afternoon, when IS young
ladies graduated. Gayly colored bunting
shoe cooking table, while three other tables
were an artistic picture with their dainty
dishes and floral embellishments
- Dr.. Snyder, OF Indiana, was the speaker
of the afternoon, but before the exercises
were over each of the Normal Superintend-
ents present had say about the Cooking
school. The graduates were told by DR..
SNYDER that they held the i'm portant posi-.
tion in the household to make man happy.
W men Lne HAL - udppy tne "n0Ie family Is
happy, and the best'means to make the man
SO is through his stomach. Super
intendent Luckey introduced DIR. Eccles. of
Shippensburg, with the humorous remark
that if the doctor had such food to eat when
he was young as the graduates had for IT,
spection he would be more robust person.
age. Dr. Eccles SAID he was glad to see this
practical and valuable addition in the WORK
of the Pittsburg schools, aud for them never
to forget the bread and butter" side of
education.
DIR. Maltby, DR.. Moss and Mrs. Moss spoke
THE COOKING FEVER SPREADS.
An interesting bit of information was OBJ
tanned at the Cooking School exercises. for
when DR.. Snyder, of the Indiana State !
Normal School, was asked for anv news re-
garding his institution he answered that it
had been decided to introduce a cooking de-
partment in the Indiana school in April for
the pupils in the senior wear. Mrs.
whose son is professor there,
will have charge Of it. She is considered ,
an excellent cook. This normal school has