The herald., 1896-12-05
THE TEACHERS INSTITUTE
Many Valuable Papers
Read Yesterday
TIE MISSION OF MANUAL TRAINING
Earl Barnes on the Study OF the
A TEACHERS CLUB FORMED
INDUCED in a Festive Banquet Last
Night
DR.. Winship OF Boston on The School OF
Tomorrow"
DR.. Hailmann, the Boston Specialist of
kindergarten Work, Upon the VAL
INDUCED in q Festive Banquet Last
Night
DR.. Wnship of Boston on " The School OF
Tomorrow
DR.. Hailmann, the Boston Specialist of
kindergarten Work, Upon the VAL
ue of Feeling in Education.
Timely Addresses

| The Broadway Methodist church, with
its additional seating capacity, was
scarcely more adequate for the demands
| the teachers institute made upon it yes
terday than the Normal school rooms
of the day before. During the entire
| morning session interested listeners
stood patiently through the program.
After the opening song by chorus of
! ladies' voices, Prof. Foshay introduced
| bright brainy Prof Earl Barnes of
| Stanford. who gave one of his brief.
| pointed talks on Some Results of Child
| Study. The recently aroused interest
| in child study by specialists is not dis
| tinct and scientific movement in itself,
| but a part of the whole system of edu-
| cation. 1t was a spontaneous growth.
| The times were ripe for it when it ap-
| peared. Five years ago thirty persons
| interested in the subject met to discuss
it in Toronto. Canada So rapidly has
the movement grown that at the last
meeting. held in Buffalo last summer
forty-five hundred people were present
AS yet results as a whole are meager,
wrought a change in public conscious
ness. and now everybody is studying
the child. One of the results of this is
the rapidly changing views of our meth
Cd of education. Child study only ap
proaches the sociological development
of the day; all who are dealing with the
humanities are looking to it, A result
of this investigation is that it will bring
about great changes in our educa tionai
in ha fptx- @ hay
learned that reading matter for children
must fit the capacity of the child. Mere
word descriptions have little force: it
must possess the personal element and
have strong movement. In drawing,
the child is getting the mastery of a
means of expression and the way to learn
to draw and draw.and draw. 1t is found
that a child's mind has craving for GER
tain things in periods of its develop
ment. At the age when he begins to
gain a knowledge of grammar he has
hunger for words and they must be
given to him with logical and distinct
feeling. but he should not take up the
study until II or II years of age.
In child life the number power must not
transcend the general intellectual power.
In history he must have clear-cut, dis
tinct character. not dates and periods;
later his mind Will reach out for that. He
passes through certain periods of apt-
tudes: he has a hunger for creeping.
walking and speaking The object Of
this study is to find when these periods
develop, and not teach him to creep
when he is three months old. There is
great need for careful study Of the par
ticular traits of the child, for clear-cut
definite knowledge of him a s he develops
Out of these will evolve a new line Of In
ductive philosophy. If you can de-
termine child's native tendency that is
the one to follow
Prof. Bailey of the state university in
opening the discussion, said he believes
that child study is an exemplification
OF the modern inductive philosophy.
but that it does not do away with the old
deductive spirit. In the human mind
science and philosophy meet. You can
not leave philosophy out of the mind
in this study; it is a phase of modern
science. The human being is the one
pe!hg that combines everything in the
universe. This science teaches us that
the cnild's spontaneous activities must
pe taken account of. True science of
character must include all the truth
Just as true religion must include ali
religions. What it really is is to broaden
US 'ahd brins us nearer to modern
science, Dut the new something mist IN
clude the old something.
Mr.. Chilcote of Los Angeles. folIovinr
the hrst speaker. said child study Womb
pflng about rational course of studv
IN our schools and dignity the profes.
sion of teaching
THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
Inc work OF the afternoon was car
RED out on the usual plan. The subject
occupying the time of the grammar
grades i'll the Normal school auditorium
Was Manual training. A paper on Man.
ual framing in City and Country
schools was presented by Mr.. c. j.
Roop of Santa Barbara; The Mission of
Manual Training, by Charles W. Miller
| OF Los Angeles; Cardboard Sloyd. bv n
l.. Lunt OF Long Beach; Manual Train
ing in Southern California and Los An
| Seles, by Charles A. Kunou of Los An
| geles; What Shall We Demand of Pupils
Entering the High School? by n. w.
richardson of San Bernardino.
| The kindergarten room in the Olive
| street school was crowded to suffocation
| and the audience overflowed into the
halls to listen to the speakers in the af-
I ternoon on this subject of ever growing
| interest. DR.. Hailmann was the first
| speaker and addressed the teachers on
| the subject of their work, with the ten
| derness toward children and the deep
| insight of the Froebel idea that charac-
| terze all he has said on the subject
| during these numerous institute meet
| ings. His hints and suggestions to those
| who have the guidance of the first ef-
| forts of the baby mind to grasp knowl-
| eGge must leave their impress on the
| kindergarten teachers. by reflex action
! on the schools. and ultimately result in
| great good to the community.
| Prof. Barnes. who always acts on an
| audience like a refreshing breeze on
warm summer day, called attention to
a matter of vital Importance which will
| confront the educators of this state in
! the very near future. He said it was not
| until the present century that the state
| had taken possession of education. Now
| it not only takes posse ssion, but dom-
mates it. In the next legislature in all
| proba bility-if not then, two years later
| the possession of the kindergartens a s
part of the educational system Of the
| state will be a burning .xfaAblem. The
| question that confronts those Interested
! is. What do We want? If that can be
| settled upon and forces united, the legis-
| lature will do what is asked of it. Now
| is the time to decide. as what is done
| now car not be undone for twenty years
to come. The various factions of the
| cities around the bay cannot unite;
1 L. A.