Middletown transcript., 1900-12-08
TEACHERS, INSTITUTE.

Moore invoked the divine blessing upo
the assemblage and its work.
The corps of day instructors was
very strong and able one. Their subject
covering wide field in school literature
After a recess Of ten minutes, durin
(which time books and pencils were dis
Etributed to the teachers, DR.. +. y. Lyt
Twas then introduced. DR.. Lyte spok
7 upon the subject, Language. DIR. A
j. Kinnaman, was the next speaker, hi
address being forcible and eIoquen
one. DR.. Lyte made the closing addres
of the morning session.
The afternoon session was called t.
order at l. 80. DR.. A. J. Kinnaman being
the first speaker. DR. Lyte followed
with a very eloquent address, DIR
Kinnaman closing the afternoon session.
The evening entertainment was well
attended. and many words Of praise were
heard on all sides at its conclusion.
THURSDAY MORNING.
On Thursday morning exercises opened
with PRAYER offered by Rev. E. w. Cas-
well. Prof. S. Fl. AIbro addressed the
teachers in very eloquent manner, on
the "Gift of Memory" He spoke OF
physiology as having a close relation to
sEillful teaching, and conscience as being
your life's experience. Prof. James de
scribed the conscience as a stream OF
thought. In this stream are four com
penent parts or tributaries
First.-Special sense OF impression;
Take a slip of paper with some melted
wax upon it and place your stamp upon
it, you receive an impression. Conscience
is the wax receiving the stamp Of the
outside world. This impression may be
gathered through any OF the five differ
ent senses, each having special duty to
perform.
Second.-We have muscular sense i'm
preston This being first detected by
the muscles and then conveyed to the
brain by the nerves.
Thirds the vital sense impression.
Through this we preserve our life, by
caution and action.
Fourth. Idea, which means sense i'm
preston. We have ideas of special sense,
of muscular sense and of vital sense.
Impression comes without seeking. Ideas
comprise three laws First.-The law OF
contiguity rules in memory. Second
The law of resemblance. Third.
law of logic or the law of cause and
effect. You have before you graphic
phone and. you wish to impress record
to be reproduced. First you step near
the tube in which you are to speak, then
you proceed to speak as you wish to be
- pleasantly, clearly and
slowly. While you speak, the sound or
air waves move down this tube; at the
end of this tube is a membrane, in this
membrane is little needle, this is i'm
pressed on cylinder that must be in
state to receive and retain ; so with the
pupil, you register on his mind ; that
plate retains your register which it re-
Iains and must recollect or reproduce it. |
Obey the laws of health and you
strengthen the brain in regard to reten- |
ion. Retention power is the strongest |
between the age of nine and eleven.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
Prof. Albro resumed his discourse in |
he afternoon by stating that pupil is |
lot always a scholar, as scholar must be |
prompt, attentive and studious. That |
lttention is focusing in the field of con-
ciousness and brain work is the most |
atiguing work we have. We must teach /
What to study and how to study. Nature
ellis us when our minds need a rest, they |
hat study after the mind becomes weary,
ain nothing. In order to induce good
tudy have regularity, quietness and
leanliness.
THURSDAY MORNING.
Next to attract and interest the audience
vas DR.. George NJ Philips, on "School
nd School Masters Abroad" He dis
used thoroughly the methods of prin-
ipals and methods of the schools of
Germany There we find public schools
or rich and poor. People who can afford
} send their children to pay schools,
ever think of sending them to free
,hools. There are no free high schools,
1 some states no free schools at ALL
hey do not consider the female educa-
on as important asmale, land tits very
ire thing to find a woman in their uni
ersatie> in the cities we find boys and
iris attending separate schools; in the
iris high schools they are advanced to
hat we style, common school education,
tuition of $40 per year boys must
repare for universities through a (gym- |
asium) high school, which gives them
eriods of Latin and Greek: in these
ymnasiums they have no recitations,
ut give lectures, have laboratories and
braries When they think they have
ecome qualified they are examined
0 one can teach without being grad
ate of normal school or university /;
zen private teachers must pass state
examinations before being allowed to
ach, their own children not being
,cepted. II
The school buildings are Of fine con-
ruction, but the rooms are very small,
ith rude desks holding about six boys
owes are the principal source Of heat
D blackboards of any value are used,
1cept now and then small one of 3x4
ct for teachers instructions every =
.hool has its gymnasium, some have
ublic ones, that is, one for several schools
which each and every school sends its s
oys at different intervals. D.,
When boy arrives at the age of
venty he enters the German army,
neither he be of high or low class, there {
2 remains for two years. By means of
lis they have constantly standing army
600, 600 between twenty and twenty
70 years of age. The boy that passes
IS examination is required to serve only /
le year. I
Institutes are unknown in Germany, :
1t owing to their restrictions and re-
lirements, the average school is con- t
iered better than the average American \
hool.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON. I
DR.. Philips appeared again in the after
,on, and delighted those present with
description of England. He said the
rms are very pretty, resembling very
uch the farms of northern Delaware S
i'd seth eastern Pennsylvania. Some
e as large as our common farms, while
hers are much smaller. +
They have three classes of travel, first,
cond and third first being four cents T
r mile, second three cents per mile, and A
e third two cents per mile; all are :,
avn as the same train the distinction .
price according to accommodation.
London only covers about one square Y
lie on the north side Of the Thames T
vel, this they call "the city''over which l
e Lord Mayor has supreme authority. N
ost of the city is very dirty having to T
pend on bituminous coal entirely, for Y
el as anthracite is not found anywhere r
Ily in the mines of Pennsylvania. In I
e heart of London you find no street n