The herald., 1898-01-14
Of Interest to Parents, Pedagogues
and Pupils


Miss Grace A. Johnson of Berkeley has
been elected to the Hemet high school as
assistant.
Miss Mildred Forsythe, who has been
teaching at Banning since September
has been elected to a position in the
Ventura high school.
Miss Martha Taylor of the Los An
geles normal has been appointed to the
school at Sanger, Fresno county.
Miss Dian NJ. Haynes of the Pasadena
Throop polytechnic goes to Weldon,
| Kern county, to take charge of the
school there.
| Miss Elizabeth Hale, kindergarten
| principal at Escondido, is in the city for
several months for the purpose of
| studying music with Mrs. Rice at the
| normal.
| The Star and Crescent society will meet
today at the high school, and an
nounces an excellent program. Miss
Scott of the Cumnock school will give
a short talk and Prof Havemann will
give an account of student life in Ger
many, while the American joshograph
of high school invention will be no in
significant number.
The Wednesday Seminar at the nor
NAL school continued it's discussion of
School Ethics as Bearing on Citizen
ship" The report of the National Her
bart society, setting forth an expert
mental system. promulgated by Prof
Dewey of the chair of psychology at the
University of Chicago, was used as an
adjunct to the subject in hand. The
experiment is, briefly outlined, as fol-
lows: AS the school has no end nor aim
other than the preparation of the child
for citizenship, in the broadest sense,
the school must be made vital institu-
ton to very much greater extent than
obtains at the present time. To accom-
plish this, or approximate it, DIR. Dewey
has, in entire disregard of established
educational notions or conventionali-
ties. collected several children of
various ages and has taught them alb
solutely according to individual need.
The kernel of the method of instruction
is contained in the following subjects:
Food, shelter and clothing, with the aim
of social responsibility. The pupils are
taught to cook, sew, build, weave, and,
in fact, make the various articles for
which there is demand in the school.
AS Mr.. Squeers, the immortal, has it:
''Spell COW. Cow, COW. Go and milk
it." The student "goes and does it."
There were many practical points de-
veloped by discussion, among which
might be mentioned the teaching of ad-
dition. If formal drill is tabooed, how
are such subjects to be taught? The
answer was that DR.. Dewey would
create a desire to know, a necessity for
knowing how to add other than con-
cretely, and would then present the SUBJ
ject of addition as concisely and in
formally as possible. So with reading.
writing and kindred branches of formal
instruction.
The teachers at the high school would
appreciate the city attorneys decision
making the Christmas holidays as legal
as the Thanksgiving holidays and
others for which salaries are drawn.
They were informed at the beginning of
the term that they would receive a ten
months salary, but unless the Christ
mas holiday week is included in the legal
holiday list the year will not be a full
ten months session; consequently the
teachers will not receive full pay.
Miss Cook of Azusa and Miss Sawter
Of Chino have returned to the shcool
of art and design.
Superintendent Foshay has been at
home three days, enjoying" the grippe.