The record-union., 1897-11-25
Afternoon Session,


in sentences
She said that in teaching these things
the teacher sometimes finds that par
ents complain that their children do
not learn fast enough, but within
short time these same parents express
themselves as much pleased with the
child's reading, because it has been
making real progress while the appar-
ent progress has been slow, she begins
the phonic work the first day and she
keeps it up for two years AS soon
as the children get power enough, they
take delight in forming new words. The
first step is the formation of the
sounds, and the next their association
with the object named. She gave an
illustration, with the aid of the class
of how readily the children recognized
an object when she gave the sounds
composing the words She also taught
them to initiate various sounds in ev-
eryday life that represent the various
vowel and consonant sounds, the chill
dren eagerly viefng with one another
in their eagerness.
The children were taken from the
classes of Mrs. Parsons and Miss BERTHE
Groth and their names are John Miller,
ell Rhoades, Clifford Russell. Ruth
Ryan, Ethel Baker and Elmer King.
They had never seen Miss Rogers be-
her work with them.
The exercise was a very interesting
one and gave new ideas to many of the
teachers, on phonic work.
ETHICS DISCUSSED.
Professor Griggs discussed the Eth
les of School Organization
He said that it was an unfortunate
thing that in our discussion of moral
education, we confine ourselves to the
negative side of good morals Intelec-
tual education apart from moral edu-
cation gives the criminal the same ad-
vantage as the good citizen. Unless
we direct his moral education, we only
give him tools with which to fight So
ciefy. 1t is most important in educa-
ton to save the individuals that have
strength OF character and capabilities
for good. The man should be trained
so that he consciously and willingly
pays obedience to the laws of his coun-
try.
A man may be cowardly virtuous and
yet not have any good qualities at all.
They are virtuous because they fear
to do wrong lest they should be found
out. Dante made a separate place in
his hell for them. because nobody
wanted them. There is no debating the
question whether or not the public
school ought to teach morals. for the
public schools leave their stamp for
good or evil on every pupil that passes
through them. Every natural law is
moral when we consider it with relation
to human welfare and every moral law
is natural There are two things in
which we are free. We are free to live
in conscious obedience to the laws of
life. to the end that they may lift us
up to health and happiness, or we are
free to refuse to obey them and thus
dash ourselves against a wall
How can the public school further
the scheme of ethical education? 1t
is interesting to find how education can
be furthered by indirection. A large
part OF moral education comes by indi-
rection. IT comes to US through nature.
To lie habitually as surely kills the
moral life as the taking of arsenic kills
the physical life. We are taught not
to violate the laws of moral or physical
life by the punishment or disaster that
follows the violation of them.
The home is the institution that has
most 70 do with the moral education.
Even the most depreved and perverted
parent resents the idea OF a doubt of his
right to be a parent. No matter how
much the child's moral welfare has
been neglected in his home. the school
has to take it up and try 10 carry out
and perfect its moral education. Some
hold that we cannot deal with children
as with adults. but he thought the five
year-old child would just as well APP
preciate the laws and discipline neces-
sary to the existence and welfare of the
school as the adult would understand
the necessity of the laws and political
organization of the State.
The dangerous class of people in our
country. he said. are not the anarchists
and nihilists. but the unthinking mass
of people who are as plastic as clay
in the hands of the demagogues. 1t is
a good thing that we have anarchists,
since their opinions are the reaction
that roints out to us the injurious
conditions that exist He was opposed
to excluding the child from school till
every other method has been tried. He
should be excluded, when ii becomes
necessary because he is corrupting the
others. as we cut off a diseased mem
Der to save the whole body. Most of
the so-called bad boys are not bad
boys at all. but are only misdirected,
and often when directed right become