The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-11-03
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ing 1t would be a good idea to droI
the supervisor Of drawing and put in
principal who can teach drawing anC
| let him attend to this class Children
are not going to make living in attel
| life by drawing red apples; they have
got to draw money to support Their
| families. Sewing is a good thing tt
| teach. ! have no objection to gooc
cooking AS to writing, there is nc
question but the superintendent OF
| schools should look after it, and, draw
| ing the salary he does, he ought to be
able to do so. / have talked with teach
ers concerning music, and they say that
it is good recreation from studies. OF
course it is a nice thing. but don't con
slider that children go to school to be
entertained, but to learn something, II
you send children to school to be enter
tanned, music is a splendid thing II
you don't send them for that purpose, 1t
is not"
At this point Mr.. Chase asked Mr..
Walsh to stop and consider whether his
testimony was worth anything or not.
To this Mr. Walsh replied AS Mr.. Fox
said, l don't want to answer silly
questions. This concluded his remarks
and as he finished Alderman Staub re-
marked Mr.. Walsh, you had more
success in talking with teachers than |
had; they We're afraid to talk to me"
The next gentleman to appear was
A. B. Morrill,, principal of the State
Normal school. He said that before he
gave his name he would like to ask If
he would be heard on part of the
question. He had nothing to say con-
corning supervisors, but wanted to talk
on physical science, which he was pro-
nouncedly in favor of. Alderman Chill
lingworth thought that Mr.. Morrill,
should be heard and the committee al
lowed him to speak. He said that he
had been at work fifteen years in Con-
necticut and had done all he could to
encourage the teaching of physical sci
ence in the schools of the state He
said that formerly instruction dealt in
words; the child was taught to get
knowledge from words, and we were so
imbued with the idea Of books that we
have an idea that education means
books. Now the idea is that the child
should get ideas from the origin of
things, not from signs someone else has
put on paper. He said: 1T is now pro-
posed to give some observation lessons
and we have found that physical sci
ence gives the best opportunity for OBJ
servation.' He quoted statistics to
show that people get knowledge and
experience in after life from observa-
ton. And So" said he, lit seems the
education of a state should recognize
that some time should be devoted to
observation. There is much in the
public schools that is irrelevant so far
as practical value is concerned. / am
in favor of throwing them out. We
feel that this object lesson is the very
thing for the children who leave school
young. Shouldn't they have a chance
at object and science lessons just be-
cause they never reach the high
SCHOOL," He then proceeded to show
what he meant by a science lesson and
to illustrate described some of the ex-
periments given for the benefit of the
children to teach them a rudimentary
of natural sciences. He said
that the Legislature had placed physi-
cal science in the course of study for
the schools and that the state board of
education had been for fifteen years en-
couraging science lessons. He believed
that reading and writing We're the most
important things in the public schools
and next to them he placed observation
lessons.
Asked by Alderman Staub what he
thought about the system Of supervis-
10 Il. 40
about supervisors. What I
say should be based on experience, on
what | have seen and as have not seen
what the system of supervisors is |
can't say
Ex-Alderman Dewell-"Are you in
favor of the system of nature study as
taught in the schools here?'
Mr.. MORRILL, don't think ought to
answer that as / have not been around
to see.'
Are you familiar with the pamphlet
that has been published by the board of
Not enough to answer you?"
Don't know whether or not it is the
same as yours"
mo"
Mr.. Staub and Mr.. Chase remarked
that Mr. DewelPs questions had moth
ing to do with the subject of the in
Quirv.
Il don't want to interrupt him since
he has been so courteously treated by
the committee as have all who have
appeared on that side of the question"
replied Mr.. DeWell.
Alderman Chilingworth asked Mr.
Morrill, if he would not look further
into the educational system in New
Haven and give the committee his
opinions. Mr.. Morrill, replied that as
an official of the state he thought that
ne would be unable to do so,
Alexander Troup asked Mr., Morrill,
Are YOU familiar with the system OF
nature study as taught in WEIGH
SCHOOL,"
mo sir"
what did you say to me then as to
the system of nature study in that
school?"
II don't remember"
II do. Were you familiar with the
in the Welch SCHOOL,"
No
AT the time of the conversation | |
lad with you, you seemed to be very |