The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-10-19

@ aShelhe AOE pQbllC euucdtloh AhNA'S" the careful study of every lover of the commonweaL History reveals the fact that the greatest notions have trained their youth mainly in reference to gov ernmental conditions.
 It is now sought by the general intro duction of the kindergarten into our school system to afford the child an op- portunity to exercise to good purpose those instructive powers of observation and operative self-aotivity which finds stimulus in the impressions of contrast relation and mediation furnished by the gifts of Froebel,
 While the conditions of modern life have been favorable to the adequate eX- pression of the highest intellectual cul- ture in various directions, they have not been so in art. Art establishes it's claim to place in a scheme of general educa- ton in that it has In the highest sense universal utility.
 The relation of this department of art to our industrial interests has be- come so we'll understood and makes so strong an appeal to the public at large with regards to what are termed the practical concerns of life that there is no likelihood of it's failing to receive it's rightful encouragement. Art has yet an intellectual utility of a general na- ture. The study of beauty as the high est truth in nature and in human life has moral and spiritual utility. It is through desire and effort to express the beauty which they have received into their hearts that the great souls of all ages have been able to make a lasting impression upon the life of the race. In school work we need short histories of art in its various phases and stories of the lives of artists who have best ex- emplified its power in our school libra- ries.
 The papers read in the kindergarten section in the afternoon were: "The Dominant Seventh in Education" Miss Harriet E. Hunt of Hartford: ''The Kin dergarten and the Primary School" Sarah J. Walter of Willimantic; and Literature for Little Children" Miss Lucy Wheelock of Boston. The paper read by Miss Hunt was the same that was delivered at the worlds fair. Miss Lucy Wheelock, a leading kin uGI SttILGn LtdCnSk Ol DOoLOllg WliC AS 4AA charge of the training kindergarten class at Chauncey hall, Boston, spoke on Literature for Little Children" Richard Burton of Hartford, who wrote the paper, was unable to be present on account of broken shoulder, so Miss l Wheelock read the paper. She spoke of the necessity of providing pleasant, en- l tertaining tales for the boy, who will l follow the man who entertains him with 1 pleasing tales. Paper the walls with tales of the Arabian Nights, which will so absorb him that he will forget the bad. The best means for possessing the mind with the divine hunger and thirst l is by presenting the truth in the hands i of a skillful teacher. Tn the plan for an 1 ideal republic Plato insists that the ia | ble makers are to be under the super vision of the lawmakers and only such fables are to be chosen as present those things which are desirable for the chil- dren to initiate.
 1 The paper was loudly applauded at the conclusion of Miss Wheelocks read ing.
 l Miss Amy Reddall assistant supervis- or of drawing in the Brooklyn, N. r., schools, read paper on 'SClay Model ling" Miss Reddan dwelt upon the ne- cessity of appealing to the child nature with things in which he finds beauty of form, line and color, and he naturally establishes them as his standards and makes his comparisons. Individual thought and action one should cultivate l We should place before the child forms not only beautiful in themselves, but ! that they may be an awakening infiu- i ence to the child's mind, training hin 1 to look for certain fundamental quail ties in them, that thereby other doors
 may be opened to him, and his powers of observation be broadened. As tc
 clay modelling, it should never be al lowed to take the place of drawing, nor to monopolize the drawing period, but should be regarded as an accessory tc take its place side lby side with the drawing No one who has watched the
 process of work will question for mo-
 ment the value of clay modelling. It is
 simply another means to accomplish the one end, that is, the training of the child in the love of the beautiful A teachers appearance before her scholars
 is also of vital importance.
 The high school section did not begin till 2 o'clock p. m. in United church
 chapel. The presiding officer was H. D
 Simonds, principal of the Bridgeport high school, and the papers read were Relative Value of Primary and Sec ondary Studies," Charles E. Sargent
 Hillhouse high school, which was fol lowed by general discussion in which Superintendent Charles w Deane, oi
 Bridgeport, Wilmot R. Jones' principal
 of the Stamford high school, and John
 H. Peck, principal of the New Britain
 high school, participated.
 MT. Sargent's paper was particularly interesting. He said that it seemed
 hopeless to longer attempt to reach
 unanimity along the lines of debate con.
 cerning the subject under discussion
 while there is fatal disagreement con. corning the fundamental principles. The work of to-day is the unit as far as pos.
 sib1e on the deep foundation of consist, ent theory. There are two views con. corning the object of education, one
 that the chief object of education is tc increase the brain power of the individ. ual, while the other view is that edu. cation should arm the individual with intellectual appliances rathen than with great mental strength. If it Is true that | adTcat tinn ShOI1d Eenk t0 agta h1ish to f he