New-York tribune., 1900-12-04
SOROSIS ON EDUCATION.
CHILD TRAINING ABLY DISCUSSED BY
MBERS-CHARACTER BUILDING.

Education the topic discussed by sorosis
yesterday at the Wal1orf-Astoria under the chair
man Of the Committee on Education Miss Kathryn
Leavitt BsselL The Tighter vein" was contrib
uted by Mrs Harriet Sibley Ward, whose reading
won much applause. and Miss Isabel Conant whose
songs enthusiastically received.
The president. Mrs. Dimles T. s. Denison was
A the chair and in her little Introductory speech
referred TO the fact that yesterdays the last
soea meeting OF a century that had given woman
wings 10 iy from the wall garden Ia which she
confined had fed her famished mind and
clothed her In garments OF light
EcDoation considered iu its relation the
thsesfOld constitution OF man, and the chairman.
presenting the subject, said that to-day the
e1esiion is less What does the man know" than
What is the character of the man." The triune
nature. mental, moral and physical, is not neg
kcied IN some OF its parts formerly the
case. With the practical knowledge OF the physi-
cal now becoming general; with the child study,
N which many earnest mothers are engaged,
the child is considered no longer a toy but seri-
responsibility, and this attitude now taken in
the few families viii be common IN the coming
century.
Or. Jennie de 10 NJ Iozier was the next speaker
and said in part: 1T is claimed that poets are
born not made. Now. good children are made. not
born. do not mean that they are born bad. but
that they are mere bundles Of impulses and in
srncts capable OF being impressed with any
stamp" She traced the development OF the pri-
mary qualities. Fear comes arst-fear Of sharp
voices OF strange noises of violent motions. Then
comes love % mother nurse then curiosity
;hen imitation then pugnacity. then OF
ownership, the last named faculty or impulse being
wei defined IN the second year OF life. From these
elemental qualities the character Is formed. and
no education is complete that Omits any part OF
the trinity that Is man. any more than the rose
bush Is complete without root. stem and flower
moral instruction may be based on the child's
oaily life, hs play. it's study. its work. Education
never ends. A textbook on morals is open wher-
ever man meets man. and the teacher is his daily
companion.
Mise Florence Du Gran Shaw said that II life Is
school as n is often eslled. club life is a uni
Nersity. Miss Shaw spoke from the teachers point
~ view. and urged that parents should give more
attention 10 the kind OF teacher the child has IL
initiates unoonsciously and always knows a sham
ano copies the real What the teacher is has more
weight than what ne says IN building character.
Emerson said that truth is the Of being. and
-osoate truth In study. work and play should be
me aim OF education.
nm sara COnant Ostrom spoke OF the self-gOv-
eahg principle in education. and argued that
eunafen should be taught obedience by reasoning
H uem. not by compelling them The process
= "Aeet she said. but the results are intellectually
"e' The Effort should be TO train the Will, not
u'eek h. The self-governed boy has wrongs to
- eno can live happily and freely. lie will
~ al necessary laws for himself IL taught
s ahe how. self-sOyernment is the principle
Rsrs,ch ssnch the United States stands. and the COM
s5S-Y cannot govern itself well unless the indi-
'SSlal has learned 10 do So
49, - ne question. Resolved. That a college edu-
s.S "a should develop equally the mental moral
In tlyslcdl natures" the affirmative taken
GA Miriam Mason Greeley ana the negative
se-SS-sSs agnes Warner Mastick. Mrs Greeley re-
49, tne Ideal college that would nicely
So - tne requirements IN all three. and said
kse- ne lacuity should require the students 10
f,s Aeih as they require certain fixed standard
f.Ppeessllg examinations. The colleges give ample
nss AlSn 10 the mental and moral. but DO recog
cUlt,.. ne curriculum any necessity for physical
issss,hs a girls college recently gave up playing
over 49, ior exercises because somebody looked
Wes, Es p, fence. The speaker considers that the
Nsvsi tolnt Military Academy and the Annapolis
F,s ,ae ideal college,
tbsIss Mastick. IN support OF the negative. said
sro lboIH ecuestion was OF supreme importance
t,eupe -ssicsl education OF least Therefore they
yssrx h9t receive equal attention IN the college
salsss tnst make or mar the character The boy
6gf \. - an Irresponsible hsppy-gO-luclcy being.
s,soc CT bad -
Cara c. Fuller read a paper on The
~sc5s~sssq1 81 Home and School" which was
Mason o S"Sofaeh 1usseA eha Nassios
~ rs G9x tae guests we're Mrs. Timothy I. Wood
clrb - Aoercromoie. formerly Of the Womsn's
ksrr-,s,,.gs .genpxer; Miss Emma Thursby and Miss