The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-12-27

Teacher Not q UuIlty Man
Superintendent Bion s. Ilutchins, OF
Ponca City. said IL was the fashion in
many communities TO imagine that
when they had hired a teacher they
had employed a handy man to conduct
most Of the religious, social and other
functions OF the place. lie did not be
lieve in tins. Teachers should be hired
to teach school and should do their
work well and make their lives models,
fit TO emulated by the scholars but
should be excused from Sunday school
and church work as his school work IL
done we'll took all his time.
Pref Morrow. OF the Agricultural
college, said that looking at the other
side of the matter would II not be bet
ter TO have the community put less
school work on a teacher so that they
could do the outside things that every
true man and woman should do Each
must be judge OF their own time aud
ability and every teacher should do
ligious work of the world not because
they are teachers but because they are
men and women on whom these duties
devolve.
Superintendent Umholtz. of Okla
homa county, held that the country
school teachers do more OF this social
and religious work than they now do
in most cases their advantages have
been greater than the people in the
community and a greater RESPONSE
bility rests upon them to do these
things.
Prof. McGuire, OF Ponca City, en-
dorsed the points of the two preceding
speakers. The teachers must do their
share in religious and social work and
believed the danger lay in their shirl-
ing more than overworking them
selves.
Teachers should be Christians.
MISS Alma Carson, of Guthrie, thinks
that every teacher should be a Chris
tiam and be as Jealous in their Sunday
school work as in the day school, for
their scholars were watching them on
Sunday as well as during the week.
Mrs. Clearinghouse Makes "A Hit,
Mrs. Charles o. Clearinghouse, o.
Ponca City, was next introduced Sh'
is a charming little lady and opened
10y announcing that the committee haC
given her twenty minutes but she hat
used woman's privilege, taken tn,
twenty minutes and added a post
script.
Observation Lessons.
Was the subject OF her paper, whic
was one of the best OF the convention
and proved the writer TO be true an
successful teacher understanding chill
nature and child thought There /
no way by which teachers can incu
cate the great truths Of nature in chill
life so well as by observation lessons
, she said The child's first impulse
, to investigate, to learn all about thing
we should be able TO teach them
learn, to think and to do thirgs in IL
e proper way.
Many are unable to
e this. We must give them ideas of
! simple, practical and philosophical n
e ture. What is seen is better than thi
: which is described. Observation
r the actual basis of all knowledg
The child should be taught first to o
I serve, second TO describe what hi
{ been observed. The child should
l. encouraged to find out things for
J. self to secure things and tell of the
y in his own language, beginning Wi
r the common things in every day u
n and the scholar will do his best on
l. when he sees in the teacher genui
J. enthusiasm and interest
y She told of the different kinds Of @
s. servation lessons for teaching for
Ie surface, colors nature studies ct
lie detailing pracucal methods that W
d be of benefit 20 every one of her hei
ers and explaining her method of stu
of the human body, of teaching pat
D. ot.sm of, interesting scholars in t
I'd weather by special study OF each da.
1t phenomena. The whole paper was
y practical exposition Of the new mel
~ ods Of teaching that are revolution
he ing educational work and making
r life of both teacher and scholar brig
&c ter and better, an admirable paper a
es mirably presented and feature Of Il
C. convention.
Miss Vesta Hainer, of Guthr
- opened the discuss ion, mentioning
" various objects to be used TO adyt
tage and stated that the success
= such work depended wholly upon I
\ ability and earnestness of the teach
- President Morrow dwelt on the {
"a velopment Of the power Of oOservati
! - needed in our schools and homes mC
.. than anything else. II should be dc
"A systematically and incidentally FIR
Az by having place for it specially, a
incidentally by using all the other
. sons to bring it out True rest con
from change and the taking up
these observation points in any less