Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-03
THURSTON INSTITUTE
TEACHERS MEET TO COMPARE
NOTES,
A Good endance-Address by the
County Superintendent Prof.
Beeler, Conductor of the Institute,
Expresses his Views-EtC.

County Superintendent Prof.
Bceler, Conductor of the Institute,
Expresses his Views-Eic.
The Thurston County Teachers In
stitute met, in the Washington school
building, Monday, with an attendance
of seventy-six teachers.
The exercises opened with an ad-
dress by Miss Amy Case. County SUI
perintendent. The speaker referred
to manifest importance of the work
before them, to formulate new plans
and methods OF imparting instruction
based upon the observation and expe.
rience of all. Among the manifold
duties OF teacher is the Herculean task
, of moulding character; to teach that
no act ends with itself, but strengthens
good or bad habit, and that habit
forms character. All concede that a
teachers influence is almost IN
bounded. We have only to listen to o
grandsire's recital OF youthful expert
ences in a school room to realize the
almost indelible impression made for
good or evil by teachers. The sculp-
tor works upon marble; the painter
upon canvas, but the teachers upon
that which is imperishable, the i'm.
mortal mind. Dare we. then assume
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without the most serious thought and
preparation. Let us take counsel of
the inspired writer who said elf any
man lack wisdom, let him ask of God,
who giveth literally to all men, and
upbraideth not, and it shall be given
him."
Rev. T. J. Lamont invoked divine
blessing upon the institutes work,
after which hymn was sung.
Prof. Beeler spoke OF the duty OF
teachers to give the new accessions to
their ranks the benefit of their
knowledge of methods derived from
experience, and urged the teachers to
feel free to question on subjects which
were not clear.
Miss Stowell, a teacher in Stanford
University, took primary work as her
subject, and urged that numbering
should be taught with combination
of numbers from objects in nature,
and thus do away with the abstract
jingle OF two and two make four.
In the afternoon Mrs. Reyes gave
an exercise in mental arithmetic,
dwelling upon the forms of analysis,
and Miss Stowell made passing refer
enre to classic writer's ON education.
School administration was the
theme of an address by A. ]. Faulk-
nor, in which the law relating to edu-
cation was outlined.
The session of the day closed with
an answer to queries by State Super
intendent Bean.
Miss Lottie Conant is Secretary OF
the Institute, and the following COM
mittees were derignated:
Resolutions, Miss Mary Page, Miss
Kate Seward, Miss Cruikshank.
Sociability, Miss Janet Moore, Miss
Boyer, Miss McClurken, 7. N. Henry.
Entertainment, Miss Libby. Miss
Ward, Ernest Taylor, Miss Moore,
Miss Page, T. N. Henry, Miss Hill.
Wednesdays session opened with a
word analysis by Mrs. Keyes, which
WAS followed by talk on primary
reading by Miss Stowell. Mrs. Reyes,
then gave an exercise in longitude,
and one in mental arithematic, Prof.
Beeler spoke on algebra and psychol-
ogy, and methods in arithematic; Miss
Stowell on educational classics, and
Mr.. Faulkner presented the legal
relation between parent and teacher.
The exercises of the day closed with
an address by Prof. Bean on the State
course Of study.
Wednesday was devoted to discus
sion of the topics embraced in the pro-
gramme.
A notable event of the present ses.
sion is the presence of Miss Stowell,
whose mature ideas derived from a
wider field of experience, have contrib
lnted so much to advance the work be-
fore the institute. She has devoted
her time here mainly to incubation
of methods in the primary department,
and many golden precepts have fallen
from her lips which will result in good
to the cause OF education.
Prof. Brintnall and Judge Root Wis.,
tied the Institute yesterday and made
short addresses.