The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-02
PSYCHOLOGICAL WORK
Professor Loisette, of World Wide
Fame, in the City.
Something About His System of Memory
Deveiopment-A University Scheme
on the kindergarten Plan.

After rambling five minutes talk, he
suddenly halted and asked: Chow many
pupils DO you think have had since the
LIST of January, 1872 A short stop and
he answered his own question by saying:
''Half a Million"
When THE HERALD reporter made a
note OF the above, Professor A. Loisette
demonstrated: "I don't care to put that
in the paper.
Nothing describes Prof. Loisette as well
this remark, for the HERALD representa-
tive had not exchanged a dozen words
until he was aware that he was talking
with one of the greatest teachers in the
world.
Prof. Loisette has made reputation
that is familiar to the educators of every
land on the globe, as the originator of a
method OF training Tor developing the
memory and increasing the powers of
attention. Wonderful as are the
feats attained by means of psychology of
the mind; not mesmerism, but legitimate
psychology. Professor Liosette i'm
presses one most forcibly as man with a
powerful individuality, capable of i'm
pressing his views on others. He has
that vigorous constitution and virility of
mind that by sheer power of energy
!
tact.
There is not a college professor nor
leader of public schools but who has
heard OF Professor Loisette. who has
had among his pupils Chief Justice Waite
and hundreds of the most prominent
jurists and statesmen of tho country.
Persons with poor memories, and they
are the great majority, will like to learn
something of this great teacher, who will
of ~
attention, and positively cure mind
wandering.
While the professor has all the appear
ance IN name and physiology of being a
Frenchman, he was born in New York
and it was back to his great-grandfather
that the Lolsettes ernigrated from France.
Il wanted to come here about July / /,
for at that time LEARNED you receive the
greatest influx from eastern tourists. - he
said, explaining his visit to Salt Lake.
"Pueblo,'i he remarked, sis nothing
| but sage brush town, kept alive by the
mines, but had a class of 300 there. am
now working pretty hard delivering eight
lectures a week, just getting my bread
and butter, l am willing that all persons
in the civilized world shall have the ben
eft of my system and am now devoting
the proceeds of my lectures to found chairs
OF pscyhchology In the leading colleges
where it shall be taught.
The central idea of the Loisette system
is that the ear as we'll as the g must be
trained. The msthod in SCHOOLS is to
u the eye only.
Professor Loisette has also a grand
scheme that, when it is put into effect,
will revolutonize the methods of educa-
ton.
His plan is to establish kindergarten
universities. He is going to take the
child at three and carry it until sixteen
Anyone entering well-managed kinder
! garten will notice that the attention OF
the pupils is mastered. The plan is to
make all the exercises as Interesting unit
/ the child is sixteen years. At the age O.
six | would have French teacher tt
speak to the children and thus
| put their ears as well as their eyes II
training. By this method the children
would be taught to speak dramatically
From the ages of nine to twelve would
have them instructed by a German. Latir
and Greek would follow and by the time
the children were sixteen years Of agt
they would be able to read and speal
French, German, Latin and Greek. My
children would graduate at sixteen in
sterd of from &c to 80.
Children have an instinct for languag,
and they learn much more rapidly from
what they hear than what they see.
Prof. Loisette will deliver free lecture
at the Methodist church Monday evening