Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-28
IN ANNUAL SESSION.
INSTITUTE SUCCESS
FULLY OPENED YESTERDAY
AT THE HIGH SCHOOL.
INSTRUCTIVE REMARKS
We're Given by Professors HcNurray
and Bryan, OF Illinois. and Prof.
w. HI. AndeFEon-A Large Number
of Teachers Enrolled-W0rk of
the Week Was Outiined-Out-of-
Town Teachers Present-Some Inn
Dortant Topics Were Discussed.


The Wheeling Teachers institute OPP
enea yes eruay at the High School
building and the enrolment was excep-
tionally large. Two sessions were held
one in the morning and the other in
the Afternoon and the proceedings were
very profitable, various questions of
considerable importance In school be-
ing introduced and thoroughly discuss
ed. The meeting VIII continue through
Cut re week.
1ile teachers assembled at the build
ing promptly al nine o'clock but the
session was not called to epter by Prof
W. II. Anderson until 1915. This per-
led of delay WAS pleasing rather than
unsatisfactory TO the teachers, because
it afforded them an opportunity for
social enjoyment. They related to
each other many delightful incidents
CT their vacation AMI expressed their
happiness in the thought that the
dreaded examination" was now over
for another year at least.
In his opening remarks Mr. Ander-
son said that while the teachers might
wish that the institute had been ar
ranged for the following week, they
had very little reason for complaint,
in view of the fact that they have adj
vantage of Other teachers in the State
in several respects. Ii was necessary
fer other teachers to attend and SUI
s.itute before being permitted to teach
and also some at great expense were
required to attend five days He tien
pointed out that few of the teachers
who were presnt al the previous annuai
session were now missing, owing TO
the fact that they had listened TO the
voice of the charmer ard entered the
world Of matrimony. After extending
to them his best wishes ce introduce
ed Chas. A. McMurray, president CT
The state Normal Schod of De Kalb,
Illinois.
Prof. McMurray began by outlining
the work c. the institute and was Of
the opinion that the teachers had been
and are perhaps now devoting their
time to accommodating knowledge, with
out regard for the kind that is most
preferable in school work He thought
that in good school work we acquire
three rsults, knowledge, discipline and
power. He next took UP the subject
Of sugar beet industry" and outlining
and explaining it as TO the farm, diff
fusion, evaporation, specialization, re-
filming, distribution, location of indus
try, location of cane sugar and maple
sugar. He showed very interestingly
how much geography could be taught
by locating the countries where the
beet, the cane and the maple grow and
the methods of transportation.
Supt. Anderson next introduced E.
B. Bryan, associate Professor of Peda-
gogy in the University of Indiana. He
said he expected to talk on those top
les which will have a transforming
influence, not alone on the teachers,
but also through them on the pupils.
We had no we'll established system in
this country. 1t was not established
as history, chemistry and physics.
For a system of pedagogy the two
foundation stones were the branches
whose capstone is psychology and so
cial studies or sociology. He referred
to the centres around which learning
may cluster and looked upon the
child as the central figure in the school
room. 1t was for the child that the
building was erected, the teacler hired
duH Tue SCuOUt OISdllZSu- ne new
born child is the weakest and most
helpless thing in the world, he contin-
ued, but within this weak being lie the
greatest possibilities. The school and
teachers were intended to be instru-
mental in bringing out these POSSIBLE
tiles. After this talk the institute ad-
journed until 1880
Afternoon Session
The teachers again met at the APP
pointed hour in the afternoon and after
the song. Flow Gently, Sweet Alton"
had been renderd, Prof. Charles A.
McMurray, of Illinois, gave another in
teresting talk. briefly reviewing the
subject upon which he had spoken in
the morning. He called particular at
tention to the value of school work and
the methods required in teaching the
children. He also advised that stand
ards of judgment should be used by
the teachers. Mr.. McMurray thought
that the deeper down into the root of
a topic that we go the better it is be-
cause by this method facts are often
revealed that were never thought of be-
fore and opportunities are afforded for
explanation. discussion among the
teachers followed Mr.. McMurray's OPP
ening remarks and quite number of