The herald., 1894-04-04
THE TEACHERS MEET AGAIN.
Hold a Number of Animated
Discussions.
A. E. Winship Talks on Reading and
Educational Psychology.
Miss Katherine Ball Discusses Drawing,
While Prof. Prioe Talks Upon
School Government.
The Work.

The county teachers institute met
yesterday at q. m. at the normal
school for its second days work.
For the forenoon's work the institute
was divided into three sections. In Sec
tion one, or the primary division. Miss
Katherine Ball gave the teachers
drawing lesson. All teachers were pro-
vided with pencils and paper and for
one hour did some very fine art work.
In the same section the second hour was
occupied by A. E. Winship, who told
the teachers how to teach reading and
how to avoid making elocutionsry bores.
In section two the fret hour was oc-
cupied by Mr.. Winship, who spoke on
reading, and the second hour by Mics
Ball on her favorite topic, drawing.
In the high school section the entire
forenoon was devoted to the discussion
of the curriculum of the high schools.
Prof. @. T. Meredith of Azuss spoke in
favor OF making the English language
one Of the chief subjects for all school
work. few years ago grammar was
the only language study. Now we are
drifting into literature, rhetoric, COM
position, speaking, and 20 other ways to
acquire a command OF language. He
devoted much time to the subject OF
reading and elocution.
Professor Gates OF the Los Angeles
high school read paper in which he
| claimed that the high schools are too
much under the influence of the state
university, and that, as only per cent
of the high school graduates ever 60 to
the university, the high schools should
be in every way independent OF the uni
versity. II only per cent of the pupils
wish to enter the university, we should
not try to mold the other 81 per cent to
suit them.
The general discussion which followed
was very interesting and showed that
there are many teachers who favor max
ing the high school independent Of the
university.
Professor Graham OF Pasadena was in
favor of the present status of the high
school, and considered that we were
very fortunate in having such a ruler or
leader as the university.
Professor Sallee of Harmony was in
favor of more business education and
more that will aid boys and girls to
understand the business of the world.
Professor Ostrom of Glendora was in
favor of more Lasin and an earlier start
bnoIolu all buo pupllbs nv
he teaches Latin to the seventh, eighth
aud ninth grades.
Mr.. Hutchison OF University spoke in
favor OF adding two, three or four years
to the high school course and having a
real college where there is now but
| high school. It takes the children too
long to learn to read, write and spell.
Pupils should be started in real science,
mathematics and language several years
earlier than usual. He managed to
teach Latin to his ninth grade pupils
after the other classes are through the
days work.
Mrs. M. 8. Noyes of Chicago spoke
! in favor of abolishing the study OF
technical grammar. Mr.. N. F. Smith
of Santa Monica was also opposed to
technical grammar.
Professor Baker of Los Angeles favored
substituting Latin grammar in place OF
English grammar.
Mr.. Hutchison took occasion to quote
sentences from some OF the speakers to
prove that technical grammar should
| be taught to q much greater extent
than at present, whereupon the chair
appointed him critic, to report at later
hour.
Miss Fall of Pomona spoke in favor of
more thorough work in all grades.
Professor Molyneaux OF Pomona spoke
in favor of the present status of the
high school.
After the critics report there was a
very animated discussion of some i'm
portant rules of English grammar
The fret speaker on the programme
for the afternoon session was Mr.. A. E.
Winship. He said that teachers in gem
eral must do more professional reading.
An hour day, or three or four hours on
Saturday, can easily be spared by any
teacher who wishes to be progressive.
1t does not matter that you cannot grasp
all the thoughts of the psychologists.
He did not want you to understand them.
No man can understand them ALL
DR.. w. Il. Harris is the greatest of
American Psychologists. He says that
all that he is he owes to Hegel For %
years he read Hegel and studied his
books as lover OF him.
One of his books in particular was
read by Dr. Harris for years before he
understood it, and when he did under
stand it ne declared that he did not be-
lieve it. Yet for all this there would
have been no great DR.. Harris but for
his study of Hegel.
The speaker said that for short time
he would give series of sketches of the
philosophers whose works should be
studied. There are three classes of
philosophers Emergency, athletic and
scientific. OF the great philosophers of
ancient times Socrates was an emercen-
cy philosopher, Plato was an athletic
philosopher and Aristotle was a scien-
tific philosopher. Before Socrates, the
thinkers and logicians had driven men
who thought they knew anything, or
who hoped to know anything, to utter
despair.
Socrates never claimed to be a philos
opher or to know anything, but he asked
the loquacious a few simple questions
which utterly confounded them and
firmly established the laws of thought
for the benefit of all succeeding genera.
tions.
After Aristotle there was no philoso-
pher we need to study till the advent of
Lord Bacon. For nearly 1000 years the
world had forgotten philosophy. Among
the modern philosophers the greatest