The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-02-17

know at least if they werewolf fed Parents
and teachers should confer frequently A
State Board of Education. suggested that
more attention be paid to the bright pupils,
not 10 the neglect of the others. however.
He thought that when pupil showed he
was eminently capable OF advancing &c a
higher grade the teacher should note the
fact and see that the pupil was placed in
a grade where it's studies would be suffi-
GENTLY difficult TO cause development.
George Griffith, superintendent of schools
of Utica, suggested that the sight and
hearing of pupils should be observed close
ly and tested. to the end that parents might
take steps 10 remedy defects. Superintend-
ent Clinton s. Marsh. of North Tonawan-
da, n. Y, talked of the adolescent period
urging that the course of study during this
time should be such as TO allow pupils to
advance they would. some faster and
others slower. He felt that there would be
great saving OF nervous force If such
PLAN should be adopted. Superintendent +.
Treudley. of YOUNGSTOWN, o., cautioned
conservatism. He feared the movement for
child-study would cause excesses and too
much of a revolutionary nature. He advised
that the old truths be maintained and that
alleged new truths be scrutinized carefully
before being adopted.
c. III. Thurber. associate professor of ped
agogy of Chicago University, discussed the
main question with reference to the high
school. He, too, was inclined to favor con-
servatism. He said there was too much
anxiety to try something new. 1t seemed
to him that il would be better to put some
of the old truths on a more solid founda-
ton than to adopt probable new truths. The
school. he said was no longer considered
a mechanical affair, but as place for So
fore we'll enough to have coeducation but
| he advised that different course of study
be prepared for boys and girls during the
How many teachers in service study
| their pupils In the class room with the
c cussed under four heads, Miss sarah C
| Brooks, supervisor of primary schools ana
kindergartens at st. Paul; talked of the
| method which she called the still hunt.
| She thought the greatest hindrance TO the
young teacher in learning her children was
| in the feeling that there was no common
| ground on which pupils and teachers could
| meet. There was too much of self-con-
| sciousness. She recommended that the
| teacher note every display of individuality
| acteristic thus displayed. If II be good
one, help. to develop it: If a bad one, dis,
that. teachers hold conference with other
| teachers who may have had the class i'm
| charge, also with the parents on the men
| tai, physical and emotional nature or the
child.
CHILDREN'S STREET HABITS.
The study of the childrens habits in the
| street and on the playground she also
| thought would be valuable. She also adj
| vised the study of expert writer's on the
| subject and the study of personal recollec-
| tons. Every person. she said, could remem-
Der his own experience as child and would
| perhaps be able from this recollection TO
| discern the difference between timidity and
stupidity or wilfulness. Further discussion
of the subject was by Prof l.. III. Gal
| breath, of the Illinois State Normal School,
| Prof. W. o. Krohn, of the University Of
| Illinois, and Prof. &. c. Van LEV. of the
| Illinois State Normal University. Professor
| Krohn spoke on the subject of physical
| measurements and tests and made the fol-
| lowing points: Mind and body act on each
| other mental development can be most
| clearly read in physical terms; the aim of
| education is not in the accumulation or
| knowledge, but the harmonious develop
| ment of the human organism TO meet the
| practical requirements of life; the pnysioi-
| ogy of childhood must be the basis or edu-
| cational measures, hereditary, nutrition.
| development of activity and function are
| the principal elements to be considered !;
| growth of body and growth of mind take
| place by stages or periods: the principles
| that hold good for the development of the
| muscular system hold equally good for the
| tons of the brain are of themselves very
| difficult of measurement. observation on the
| growth of the body might be chosen for the
| study of the development of children as of
| much practical value in the determination
| of the correct educational methods.
| The leader in the discussion of the next
| subject was not present. 1t was o'clock
| when 1T taken up and Miss Mary e.
| Laing, of the Oswego Normal School,
| passed hurriedly over the consideration of
| the subject: Should teachers in prepara-
| ton have instruction in theoretical and
| practical child-study?' She thought the
| subject could be answered only In the af-
a question would be considered out of
l place.