The herald., 1896-12-05
look at the matter seriously and unity it's

| look at the matter seriously and unity it's
| forces.
DIR. Pratt gave an excellent practical
talk to teachers on the conservation of
nervous force. She pointed out some of
| the habits of mind teachers naturally
acquire by years spent in the school
/ room. and gave valuable hints on the
| psychological influence in nerve strain.
! Miss Florence Lauson of the Normal
| school read an excellent paper entitled
| kindergarten Principles, which con-
| cuded the work of the day.
EVENING SESSION.
The evening session opened with Sc
! lection of music.
The topic upon which DIR. Winship OF
Boston took for his eloquent and fluent
| address was the School of Tomorrow.
1t will come, said thes peaker, ou tot
carnestness of purpose. In the future
the school must take that relation. Time
has come when i'm the school of tomor-
row we shall use the school of the past
the base line of tomorrow. We will un-
derstand that there is the humanizing
force Ethics and the ethical will play
prominent part in the school of tomor-
row. The relation of conventionality to
individuality; in every phase of our
school work these will play a prominent
part. Conveutionality means now that
there has been no convention. 1t means
that you must adhere to the convention
a
dividuality means now that | will not
divide my judgment with any man. 1t
shall mean this: That we will accept
| the conventional, but we will put into it
our personality; that we will put all
| the intensity of our personality into the
best and grandest things. This is the
| spirit he would put into the school of to-
morrow. The mission of the school will
rot be athletics for the mind, but some
| thing that will uplift humanity. Our
| country will not live on its past; If this
nation is to stand it will be because 1t
! has something in its fibre, something
that shall endure.
England has been acquisitive and this
has been woven into her being. For two
hundred years she has picked up every
thing that has lain around loose eX-
/ cept Venezuela. She is acQuisitive |
speak it to her praise and not to her
dishonor. Germany has nothing of her
acquisitiveness. nothing of her economic
grandeur. She is Intellectual. France is
social it sets the fashion for the wo-
men of the world and the man who
thinks she is not strong with the women
OF the world at her feet does not know
what he is talking about.
The United States will not endure un-
less she attains Ergland's economic
grandeur, Germany's in nteilectuality and
the social spirit of France. We are not
sense that Germany is and we are not
social. We have not Frances social
spirit and her rythmic power. America
will accept it as her mission to solve the
problems of humanity she will rise
heaven-high over England, France and
Germany.
America has the problems of the
world and we can solve them; we must
whether we will or no, or they will solve
US. They will be solved by young peo-
pie and not by the old: the latter are con-
servative. The young are not. The
conservative is the man who sits on the
tail of progress and cries whoa from
morning tin night. 1t is to the boys
in our schools today that we must
look to solve the problems of the flu
ture. At the conclusion of DR.. Win
ships enthusiastically stirring ad-
dress the audince was favored with
solo by Prof. Cornell, Infelice, from
Ernani.
DR.. Hailmann gave thee losing address
of the evening on The Value of Feeling
in education The mind is a unit. This
very fact is reason of the limitations.
II can look in one direction. can see but
one thing at a time. Things come to 1t
in sequences. not simultaneously. Men
look upon the several phases of mental
act as separate thing, rather than the
necessary correlated phases of forces.
L
warmth. the good. the beautiful, the
true owe their value to feeling. Thought
makes us wealthy, feeling makes us
rich. Without thought feeling is blind.
Thought finds what feeling seeks. The
problem of education is to find means
and adjust conditions. AS an Illus tration
of his subject the speaker outlined sue
cinctly and with tender feeling the his
tory of the first Kindergarten. Pesto-
loyZi. The address was of value to those
interested in this absorbing subject, in
these days of new educational ideas, and
old ones revived and to the public as
a clear elucidation of its underlying
thought.
Prof A. B. Coffey of San Francisco
followed in a stirring address on the
press What he said was not new, but
his talk sparkled all through with old
things put in new and original way.
He said the literature of a people is
the written result of their combined
lives; whatever affects a people affects
their literature. He traced the events
in our own history that left their impress
on the literature of the country. His
arraignment of some of the rcent flc-
tion was severe but in most cases emil
rently just The modern newspaper
with it's overload of sensationalism its
reports of vice and crime came in for its
share of condemnation, but the speak
CT ulu not ldil u lUucH lfle keynote OF
this when he said that it is furnished
in response to a popular demand. He
paid a glowing tribute of praise to the
overworked editor, and an abundance of
excellent matter to be found in the mod
ern daily.
After intermission Mrs. Mary Gray
sang very sweetly. with flute accompan-
iment Sing, Smile, Slumber.
President Skinner then presented some
facts concerning the National Educa-
tional association with a view to inter
esting California teachers in the COM
ing annual meeting in Milwaukee, next
summer, which President-elect McKin-
ley has promised, conditionally, to at
tend. A fine array of talent is promised
and some questions of vital moment to
teachers are to be discussed
If Los Angeles desires the association
to meet here in 1898 she should combine
her forces and make her wants known.
A committee will then visit the city,
look over the accommodations for en-
tertdiuing a body of $4,000 or IA, 200 peo-
pie and an audience room which must
have seating capacity for 5000. Califor-
MIA has not been surpassed in member
ship in the association except by New
York, last year.
The exercises of the morning con-
cluded with a practical talk by Prof.
McClymonds of Oakland on school ar
chitecture.
TEACHERS CLUB.