The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-06-01
The Teachers Institute.

DR.. S. E. Forman conducted very
| interesting and instructive institute IN the
| Town Hall this week, which was well at
tended by the teachers.
They were welcomed by Mr.. NJ. Hamp-
ton Magruder in the graceful address
which follows:
| take great pleasure in welcoming to our town
those who represent the intelligence of this county,
and these upon whose shoulders rests the stability
of our government. Upon yon, as the promoters OF
education, is placed the grave responsibility OF
shaping The destiny of our country, by the proper
! interpreta ton of republican government and its
necessary concomtant the freedom of religious
| opinion.
Yon, ladies and gentlemen drill the youth OF this
country in the foundation of educ ,ton, the teach
ing Of language. upon which is bullded more
| advanced education and the superstructdre OF
science You instruct in the rudimantary princl-
pies of learning VIII ich promote desire for higher
Intellectual pcrsuitS, ami you pave the way for Il
standard morality which is the true test of an adj
vancing civilization. All progress in science i'll art
and in literature is the product of the teacher ;
skill ard the greater part of the malformaton OF
mind and morals CT the growing generations is at
tributabe to the improper training IN the schooi
room where there is lack of discipline and at
which time OF life the tendency of youth is most in
cned towards evil.
The advancement in all profess ons and IN all
trades shows the progress of the common school ed
ucatlOn. Our school training, having an upward
tendency and being in itself thorough, requires
the same tendency in the college and university.
The old curriculum of Latin and Greek and a
little literature has given place to post graduate
to require professors specially trained to teach
them. The legal standard is higher, the medical
profession is ofter and that line of duty in this
worlds work designated the ministry, is certainly
more enob,ing. The medical fraternity less FREE
quently, by experiment, deprives us Of our eNis-
lance, whether the world at large considers it OF
va lue OF rot-those who compose the reverential
class consequently nor AS often called upon to
euogize those of suddenly acquired religious ten
dencies-and am finally compelled TO say, though
out of pure modesty, cannot dwell long upon the
noble professor to which L claim membership,
that the lawyer is not near so frequently called upon
to prove the reputation Of his prosecuted client.
The thorough the college course, the more
advanced the county school, the more progressive
the county school, the intelligent the commu-
nifty; and the intelligent the community, the
more advanced people. 5, we see that the pro-
gress of society result of your energy, is an out
growth If your labor in the school room and the
people in every walk of life indebted to those
who preceded you to You fortheir position and
success.
You are met here to day for the purpose of isSim-
ilation that is, you met here to change views
as to the best method of advancing this rudmenta-
ry course of education AMI under the supervision
and instruction of Mr.. Forman you are to apply
the experience of one another SO that the best re-
suits may be attained in the school room. Most fit
ting and most pleasurable does it seem, that you
should be instructed in this noble work by one who
has been led up to the very fountain head of learn
ing and who has condesccnded to tell us, who, per-
haps, have not been so fortunate as hmeif, OF the
sweetness and purity and sparkling brightness of
those same waters Of learning, and Of the delights
that in waiting for all those who will endure the
toll and labor requisite to reach them. We are re-
quired to reach them, must reach them, and
while laboling for your good you are at the
same time bringing those under your guidance to
the same degree Of improvement.
l desire to express my wishes for your success in
your present work, that this gathering of BRAIN and
energy will reflect the same credit npon the new
School Board as upon the old, and that the results
of your labor may be as satisfactory to them it
PROFESSIONALLY will be to the general public.
DR.. Forman's instructions and the ad-
dresses of Professor Houck, of Pennsyl-
vania, teemed with practical advice and
information.
The institute for the colored teachers
was held yesterday, and DR.. Watkins
delivered the address of welcome.