The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-26
LEWIS ACADEMY NOTES.

LEWIS ACADEMY NOTES.
Teachers Training Course
The manifest superiority of the trained
| over the unframed man in any department
| of manual labor is unquestioned, but the
| contrast is still more apparent in the pro-
| fessions. Training makes all the differ
ence between the jurist and the pettifogger
| in our courts; between the scientific ply
stefan and the murderous quack at the
bedsides of our sick; between the states
man and the dema gogue in our legislative
| halls; between the healthy, safe leader of
! public opinion and the blockhead editing
our newspapers; between the rational be-
| lever and the declaiming charlatan in our
| pulpits; between having tn ready, skillful
/ guide and builder of child mind and the
! laundering ignoramus teaching in our
| schools. Perhaps the most expansive and
surely the most fruitful, educational re-
| form Of the nineteenth century is the
training of teachers for their work The
old way allowed adults (who were intel
| lectually children) to teach children and
blunder into any success or skill they
| might chance to meet. Today all our
standard schools are directed and taught
by men and women who know and use
only the best methods of presenting each
subject, and who never waste one hour of
the child's time with exploded theory or
family methods of teaching
But the great question which today con-
fronts the young teacher desiring to excel
in the profession Is: "Can I accomplish
this work in the short time allowed-pos-
sibly vacation Of a few months at
mOst?''
The unanimous verdict of experience and
observation is yes. While the study of
principles requires much time and the ap-
plication of much intellectual force, the
study of methods is a far simpler thing
requiring but little time and little intel
lectual force to muster it. The reason is |
obvious to the thoughtful mind the crude
way of reaping, moving or performing
military evolutions is the hardest way
while one of the greatest advantages of
the new way is that it does its work more
easily and faster as well as better The
young teacher can in a short term change
difficult methods for easier, more practi-
cal and better ones, because such work
does not require hard study and does not
tire the learner. The correctness of the |
above is abundantly verified by the work
done in the training department Of the
Lewis For five years especial attention
has been given TO the teachers training
classes. especially that Of the spring term.
over one hundred young teachers now in
the field received their training in this de-
partment of the Lewis, and their uniform
success is the best recommendation of the
work accomplished in the short term The |
class is not an experiment: it success is |
proven. The instructors are not amateurs;
they have taught in all grades from kin |
dergarten TO university, and have always !
been successful All are widely known a
institute workers whose services are al |
ways in demand as lecturers upon. and |
demonstrators of, advanced method OF IN /
struction.
The Lewis offers increased facilities for /
the coming term. All grades of work from |
kindergarten to college sophomore year |
are in session each day and young teach |
ers can observe the work directed by spe- |
cialists in every department. Splendid ap- |
paratus for illustrating as well as the AM
mai. mineral and plant museums with |
chemical and physical laboratories are for
the use of all students. Teachers wishing
TO qualify themselves for higher grade
of certificate or better work are invited TO
visit the classes in actual work any day
and judge Of the practical value of the
training.
NOTES.
Mr.. David Johnson. Is. now student
al Bethany college. Lindsborg. Kan. Viz
TIED Lewis academy last week Mr. johnson
ii fitting himself to be a minister IN the
Swedish church He preached Sunday "a
Hutchinson and then came 02 voiti,s inn
Hutchinson and then came on 70 Wichita
to sell tickets 10 tae Messiah. which viii
be given at LindS5org the latter part OF
March
In che chemical laboraotry during The
LAST week. besides the regular work OF the
chemistry class. M. Phares has been test
Ing for arsenic, ard Nj Cecil Howes has
been preparing paper for photographs and
printing pictures Part OF the chemistry
class have been anslvzing zinc from Ms
souri, mines.
Miss Harris. county superintendent ~
Hamilton county. former student u
Lewis academy. has asked Prof SOFT -
help IN normal work al The close ~ school
Miss Harris : one OF four county sCpsri1-
terde1-s Who were academy students
Miss Matte Jones. sS who is RON teach-
ing a Conway Springs. was recently TO
tined BY The board THAI school would not
be closed AZ the usual time but would b.
continued over nine months recommea-
dalton for Mss Jones methods Of ;sae8-
.EE
Warren and Gordon Oldham on return
ing rom hunting expedition Friday. pre-
scented each Of the teachers wIrh brace
OF ducks. TIE boys had excellent luck ard
report a fine tine.
Miss Eva Dewey. = who vas sick -
long al the Wichita hospital has again
had a relapse and = back ~ 1he hospital
very sick