The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-28
PROF. KESLER'S ADDRESS.

development fashionable, and there viii
be no more trouble"
PROF. KESLER'S ADDRESS.
Prof. j. L. Kesler, of the Baptist Fee
male University, followed Prof Kelley
with very striking paper, The Teaching
and the Teacher" The originality of
style and beauty of language of this paper
were among its principal features Some
of the thoughts were as follows: 'The
genuine teacher is born of nature. Any
man fit to teach stops where nature stops.
The scope of the teaching is the laws of
nature and the natural relations. The
teacher teaches more than the study of
his subject. He imparts his thought to
the pupil. communicates himself, as it
were. The principal thing to be impaired
is morality. using the word in its largest
sense, as it should be.
1.-The work of education is to fit men
TO perform justly all the requirements of
life. OF course, there must be an articu-
lation of the academy with the college,
and an articulation of teaching with the
teacher and the taught. The teacher
must know what he teaches and whom he
teaches. He becomes a medium of the
telepathy of nature. 1t is a sort of wire
less telegraphy. 1t is not so much what
he does as what he cannot keep from
doing, and not so much what he says
as what he cannot keep from saying that
has the greatest influence. He is a
mediator between nature and the child :;
he makes clear the picture that was erst-
while dim, and brings out the good i'm
pulses that are within the pupil. There
can be no teaching without learning.
Real teaching implies cooperation: il
canot be one-sided. The intention of the
teacher is answered by the attention OF
the pupil, and the result of the equation
is retention. He makes the pupil see he
does not see for him. At first he must
necessarily clear away the details that
prevent a clear view.
Teaching is living, and living is pray
ing, and praying is loving. Life is rei-
gious to the core. The difference between
the tyro and the master is the difference
between the scribe and Jesus. Both taught
the same thing, but the teaching of the
one was dead, of the other vitalizing
Ones was dogma, the others q life The
result of the one was mechanism, of the
other an organism. Details have to be
memorized; but, if we stop there nothing
is accomplished. for the facts remain un-
digested. My contention is for significant
teaching, analysis and specification may
be carried too far"
Prof. Kesler showed at some length
that what is generally called inertia of
matter is only relative term. matter
not being absolutely inert. II contend, 4"
he said, that we must see things i'm
motion"
The secretary, Mr.. Robert L. Madison.
deferred reading his report on account OF
the lateness of the hour, and merely an
nounced the program for today, which tx
as follows:
Appointment of committees
$3.50 a. m.-Address, Prof. W. T. Whit
sett, Whitset Institute.
10 a. m.--Address, The College in Re-
lation to Secondary Education, DR.. w. p.
Few, Trinity College.
General discussion
10:45 a. m.-Literature in Secondary
Schools-Its Object, and Methods of
Teaching-Miss Margaret Burgwin Hill
lard, The Francis Hillard School.
Discussion.
1880 a. m.-The Report of the Com
mittee on English in High Schools Gre
pert by the Chairman, Prof S. L. Sheep
discussion led by Prof P. V. Anderson,
Trinity Park High School
1915 p. m.-Some High School Problems
Prof. D. L. Ellis, Sanford High School
Discussion.
1:O0 p. IMMORAL Training in the Acad-
emy-Prof j. A. Campbell Buie's Creek,
Academy.
Discussion.
AS p. m.-Business Meeting-El Election
of Officers-Reports of Committees-Un-
finished business.
II is not probable that Prof Campbell
will be present. on account of the recent
disastrous fire at Buies Creek Academy.