Arizona republican., 1900-12-20
THE ROD AND THE CHILD
Discipline Under Discussion
 By Arizona Teachers
It is Considered in the Abstract and in the Concrete-The Kinder garten Also Under Consideration Yesterday.

The third days work of the Teach CTS Institute was no less enthusiastic and interesting than that of the first two days. The sessions are proving to other Arizona institutes, and the hot discussions are bringing about revolu- tions in ideas of systems and work in the various departments of the public ing greatly benefited and will take away with them at the close of the In- stitute many new and helpful sugges- tions. Teachers over the territory not in attendance are missing valuable points.
 This mornings session opened with Superintendent Fulton in the chair at promptly g o'clock. The ro,l was called and Rev. Meagher of the M. E. church of Tempe made an opening prayer.
 The first paper was to be on the Problems of Discipline" by J. N. Pemberton. He was absent. w. s. Varnum, however, had a paper on dis cipline. He brought out many good points and his paper was interesting, indeed. Some of the points he made were:
 Moral, intellectual and physical dig cipline is purity, though it may iadi- rectly react favOrably or unfavorably on society," "A good man may be a good citizen and then again he may not Individual goodness" and good citizenship" are by no means synonymous terms. Personal virtue may consist with ignorance, but man must be intelligent to be a good citien." 1.-The school is a creature of society and should serve only as its creator"
 It is one of the chief purposes of school discipline to make pupil finally and forever conscious of the fact that he is only one out of many, and that his strictly personal. individual inter- ests and we,I-being are bound up with that of every other member of the com munity. In case of conflict between pupil and teacher. the parent should in the eyes of the child. be first, last, al- ways. and forever on the side of the teacher, i. e., the representative of so- ciety.
 Mir. Varnum brought his speech to a
 
 Man holds his primacy in the animal kingdom chiefly through his power to create institutions The ripest fruit of civilization is the institution called the state. The school is created by the state as it's most efficient bulwark against the tendencies to revert to a lower type of civilization. In this process, the state employs three agen- cies: the parent, the teacher and should have a third-the disciplinarian each with separate and distinct field of labor Most of the difficulties that arise in the operation of trans forming the young savage into a meas urably good citizen. comes from the at tempts of one factor to trespass on the domain of another. When these three learn to work tremendously each in his proper sphere, it will not be Iong-it will be comparatively easy, to rear that desire of the ages: Men in stat ure, with keen intellects and lofty moral ideals"
 c. O. Case of Phoenix followed Mir. Varnum in his discussion. He said that qUietude is necessary to the best results in school work; that there should be a professor of discipline Ca specialis0 and that there are some old ways that are the best for discipline.
 Prof. J. w. Stewart objected to the paper read, saying he thought that the object of the home, school and state should be for good manhood and wo- manhood, rather than for good citizen ship. He said that school is theory is despotism, though strongly modi- fled, and that teachers are absolute as far as the pupils are concerned.
 Prof Frizzell followed with remarks leading to the fact that strict discip- line should be and could be, enforced in a way that the pupils could see that 1t was for their own interest and that they themselves could say what was right or wrong.
 Judge W. A O'Connor of Nogales told a good story Illustrating a solu- ton, making the point that a teacher must make the pupil understand that there is plenty of power back of the teacher to enforce discipline
 Miss Post of Yuma said a teacher is Q despot, but not necessarily tyrant.
 Messrs. Grouse and Gaines each spoke upon discipline.
 Here ten minutes recess was had.
 THE KINDERGARTEN.
 Prof A. J. Matthews read a most in teresting paper on "The Kindergarten as an Educational Factor" His de- livery was especially strong and ellie ited close attention. A few of the many valuable points MT. Matthews brought out in his discussion were as follows:
 Instruction and training must begin at an early age when the brain is in a plastic and impossible condition. At this time. say from 3 to or years Of age, habits. methods of observation, thought and action so impress them selves upon the mind that they ever after cling to their possessor. There are two great good effects of kinder garten training: first, to the individua! pupil, and second, the beneficial re- suits to society. The senses are all trained. the organs of seeing are so developed that colors, forms, distances fI,ot, ,-alo +-