The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-01-15
LEWIS ACADEMY.
NOrmal DEPARTMENT.

| Perhaps no department of our education
| al system has attracted more attention
or done more for the general advance
| ment of learning during the last quarter
of q century than has the Normal or
Training school. Though primarily de-
signed to qualify teachers to do effective
work in imparting knowledge, the Nor
NAL school must also be credited with
having inaugurated and established the
best methods of study now used in our
| standard schools.
So great are the results of these i'm
proved methods of studying and teaching
that the student of today acquires the
same amount of mental discipline and a
greater knowledge of the various subjects
studied than did the student of thirty
years ago, and this. too. with an actual
saving of one-fourth the time formerly
spent by the student in school. Recogniz-
ing the necessity of keeping abreast of
this movement, and believing that the in
creasing demand for thoroughly qualified
teachers throughout Sedgwick and ad-
Joining counties could be met only bv
those teachers who have fitted themselves
for teaching by a thorough and compre-
hensive course of training under the di-
rection OF instructors who are specialists
in their departments the board Of tr,ls-
tees Of Lewis academy placed in its cur
riculum a four years normal course. de-
signed to meet the wants Of all students
desiring to become proficient in the sci
ence and art OF teaching
The courses of study are 50 arranged
that the teachers training course nav be
mastered in connection with either the
scientific or the classical COURSE without
loss Of time. Any student NAV become
specialist in an ydepartment OF language
natural science, literature or mat1emat-
les he may elect. and many thus ~ them
selves to teach special branches.
As the Lewis has all the grades from
kindergarten 70 the regular college son5o-
more year. students preparing TO teach
can observe daily the owrk done bv sna-
cial teachers in the lower grades. Over
one hundred teachers have compIe+ed tha
English training course offered by n.
Lewis. and the superior character % -r,.f-
work may be seen by inspecting the exam
nation records in the Office % the county
superintendent or by noting the success
OF their work as teachers. Thjrrv-+7r,
students trained IN this department took
the teachers examination last Aue-,s-
An received certificates and all secured
schools Three Of the grade teachers in
the Lewis, to-wit. Misses McFlharev
Dean ard Tricky. are graduates Of the
school.
The chemical and physical laboratories.
the museums 81 art. geology. botany and
zoology. as Vel as the literary and sci
entific libraries. are all freely used bv
students preparing % teach. their MOTTO
being; We learn to DO by dosnz~
The English training course includes =
revte Wof al branches required FOR a Sec
ond srsde certificate for teaching in Kan
sas and thorough drfI IN the most sp-
proved methods of teaching the same
This Vork < presented each term and ne
student takes arithmetic geography. Or
biography methods % teaching and read
ing with Prof. Scott: physiology. English
grammar. hygiene and psychology with
Miss Kate Brown; United States history.
bookkeeping. civil government; and his