The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-02-08
MORNING MEETING.

n Proi. +. b. Dreheler, OF the state normal
school of this city, who ia making what
might be termed a study OF child
study, gave very able and eloquent
address at he morning session of the
institute on this popular subject.
Prof. Drssser is very pleasing
speaker. and had all through his talk
the closest attention.
"Are VS. looking Tor an opportunity
for methoda that will help us to guide
our little ones? we will find 1t 10 tho
child, itself. " said Prot. Drsaslsr.
Teachers do not get near enough to
the child's bodily life. Teachers forget
that the child's chief delight is physical
exercise. We need to he taught BY an
cient Athens mill We learn the art OF
conducting physical and mental exer-
else.
"Che great body Of parents are yet
uninterested in the health of their ahil-
dreu. knowledge 10 Of vast i'm portancs,
but it is insignificant compared to good
health. Tho peesimists OF the world
have all bSen oi unHound body.
THE sensuaiity and utter disregard Of
health of the French has given birth to
hundreds of vile hooks. George Melon
aid WAS right when ne said: what we
need in this life 10 more lite.' Excesnes
are the forerunnere OF disbelief and
Bkept'ciam. Germany has just awak-
ened to the fact that she was putting
out the eyes of her pupils. America is
breeding new form of nervous disease
by the rushing methods of business life
and school life The word school was
derived from word meaning leisure.
ave do not get close enough to the
minds OF the children. We demand too
much culture and learning from them.
One OF the greatesI difficulties in the
world is to transfer the thoughts of one
mind to another,
Children think slowly; we talk too
fact for them. We frequently 80 con-
fuse the child that it is IMPOSSIBLE for
it to think. Prot. Jsrtro has shown
with hls autograph that even if we
think OF pendulum, we cause all our
muscles to vibrate with the pendulum.
This ia scientific treatment on adults
of what may be observed by the teacher
with the children every day.
"Order ia not mechanical stiffness. It
10 q difficult thing for rs to treat the
child as child. We expect the child
to enjoy life from our standpoint, a
standpoint it has taken ua years to at
tain.
'If parents only knew their children
and truly loved them. great burden
would fall from the teachers shoul-
Gers.
''The development of the muscular
control of children has been carefully
studied and furnish US with founds-
4 fion for ideas on mental development.
"Dr. Warner says movements are the
only sign OF brain activity in the child.
10 / hau nh n
be punished severely because they were
near-sightsd, and neither the teacher
nor the child was aware of it.
without knowledge of the
thoughts of the child's mind, under GER
tain circumstances, we cannot hope to
govern the child Alright. Many of tho
best methods for the government of
children will be suggested by the child
itself to the observsnt teacher.
There are thousands of teachers and
parents today making notes of the ac-
tion of the child-mind. and we may ex-
pect something grand from this question
ere long. / know that there is danger
of making child-study fad. 1t is only
fad with those who undertake the
work simply because it is popular and
these are only studying themselves and
not the child.
Eve have a higher aim than the
making of ecienoe in child study, The
immortal lives of these little ones are in
our hands.
II want to put plain question to you,
and you must answer it out of your
heart of hearts. Can you read the inner
most thoughts OF the child that is in
our keeping? 1t can never become a
fault for the teacher to study the inner
most life of the child intrusted to her
keeping.
1.-THE beet work OF the republic is to
save the children we can say with
President Jordan, and we can add that
the safety of the republic is in the saw
ing Of the children.
Teaching is easy when it Is in accord
with nature; go let me say once again,
study your children, that You may teach
them and love them that you may love
them"
HOW DO WE KNOW?
The second address OF the evening
was very able one and one full Of in
struction. Prof. Lewis 81. Swift OF the
Mt. Lowe observatory. one OF the great
astronomers of the day, delivered 1t.
He hid his subject under the interroga-
ton. How Do We Know? and told how
an astronomer works.
The astronomer goes TO his delights