Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-01
ACCEPTS THE BROKEN SLATE
Committee to Choose offic,rs for the State
Teachers Association.
RECOMMENDS NAMES ONCE REJECTED
Lively Executive session Results In n
Reconsideration of Former Ac-
tion and Report Fairly
Harmonious.


LINCOLN, Dec S1.-(Special)-1t was ex-
pected that the committee appointed to nom
mate officers of the State Teachers associa-
tion for the ensuing year would not make it's
report until this evehing This morning the
committee INST in room A. library building,
and organized by electing State Superin-
tendent Corbett chairman and j. a. Collins
secretary. Then they went into executive
session and excluded all the newspaper men.
There was a good deal Of caucusing in this
session and the prevailing idea seemed to be
that some cne was to be vindcated, and the
slate which was put up yesterday and broken
was again rejuvenated mended and pre-
sented for confirmation. Long before the
doors of the room were opened it was known
that the same list which was yesterday
showed under would be again reported. Just
before adjournment there was an effort made
to substitute the name of Mrs.
Grace b. Sudborough of Omaha
for that selected by the delegates
and a warm discussion followed. The
association finally adopted the report OF
the committee on nominations of officers,
as follows President, j. w. Crabtree of
Beatrice; secretary, Lillian Stoner, Valen-
tine; treasurer, G. X. Atkinson, Fairbury;
member of the executive committee, w. II.
Clemmons, Fremont member of the read
ing circle board, j. A. Collins member OF
the educational council, w. II. Siders.
President Beattie of the Peru Normal
school presided at this mornings session
of the association. He announced that
by the instructions of the executive
committee the program crowded out yes
terday morning by the political wrangling
hn ont A w
read by A. II. Bigelow on the proper course
of study for the schools below the college.
He believed the course should be arranged
as to extend through the twelve years be-
low the college. In the first two grades the
history should be given by story telling
and in the third and fourth grades this
story telling should be supplemented by Sc
lected reading, and from the fifth to the
eighth grades the formal study of history
should be taken up. He called for many
changes in the text books and methods of
teaching.
w. A. siders of Alliance led the discus
sion OF the subject. He said he would d
vide the work in history into three periods,
the elementary course, to cover four years,
an intermediate period, to cover three years.
and an advance course of four years,
EDUCATION OF CHILDREN.
DR.. Krohn was called for and responded,
beginning his address by condemning the
usual daily program as arranged by the
castiron methCd. Such a program is faulty
because of want of knowledge of the ma
ture. An examination made from 10000
children has shown that the best time for
mental fort IS from to 1915 in the morn
ing, and the very worst time is from II to
II. In the afternoon the best time is from
to A. and another weak time is from l to
2, when the blood is called from the brain
10 assist in digestion. During this period
the child may do mechanical work that does
not call for close mental application. for
this reason the best time for penmanshiD
and drawing is from 1 to 2.
Often the fatigue noticed in "a school
room Is caused by bad arrangement of the
program. lie very earnestly called attention
to the periods when there is greatest phys-
cal growth. The first Of these is about the
age of and the most important one is the
age of IA. 1t is a time OF many dangers
and OF sluggish mental activity. 1t is the
time when the boy is usually called dull
ana should be carefully handled. Investi-
gation has made clear the fact that come
children learn through the ear and others
through the eye and 80 they are either eye
minded or ear-minded. Each of these two
classes must be taught in the way best
suited to it. Others learn best by writing
what they wish to remember. He sharply
criticised the methods OF pursuing this
study that call for annoying questions to pa
rents of children as to the personal habits
or peculiaritieS of their children. He again
called attention to the periods of danger
GduStu ny llle TGplu CROWN OF the cnllu.
How to Improve the Compulsory Law"
was tho subject of paper by Judge A. w.
Field of the Board of Education of this city
He quoted Martin Luther as saying that
the state owed the child an education and
had a right TO demand that the child have
the advantage of the school. He showed
from statistics that the states having a good
compulsory law have, as a rule, the smallest
per cent of illteracy. He asserted that under
our present civilization the state had right
.1F
that the child receive education This
may be obtained in a private or parochial
school, but the child must receive the train
ing in some way. From the age of to
y the child should be in school every day
that school is in session. From 10 to II the
child should be spared from the most urgent
demands of the home. To make such a law
effective 1t Is absolutely necessary to have
good truant officer.
The following resolution was submitted
by Superintendent c. G. Pearse of Omaha
and unanimously adopted
Whereas, The National Educational as
sociaton holds its sessions each summer in
one or another of the leading cities of the
Whereas, In the city of Omaha is to be
Aeld during the summer of 1895 the Trans
in which VIII be gathered the products of
twenty-four of the great states of this
and from the United States and from for
eign countries; and
Whereas, We believe that not only will
the visit 10 Omaha be profitable on account
of the great exposition and that it Will
also be convenient on account of it's cen
tral railroad facilities. its lines of commun-
ication reaching direct TO all parts of the
country but interesting to all the members
from the fact that the association has
never been held In this region and many of
them have never had an opportunity of
learning from observation its advantages;
therefore, be ii
Resolved, That we, the, members of the
Nebraska State Educational association.
cordially join in the invitation of the city
of Omaha to the National Educational as