The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-12-14
ALL WORK,
NO PLAY.
Speaker at Teachers Insti-
tute Would Prohibit Child
ren From all Pleasures.
MAKES THEM NERVOUS.
Sweet Teachers Jammed in
No. ! Auditorium Pro
gramme and Other Items

4 and crowned fhis roornine aS though in
/ fulI svmnatbv with tba hundreds Of eacl,.
| ers who must ATTEND the annual Teach
i ers' Institute If H,dson countv ~. loose
i a whole DAVIS nav Now whole davis
| paw in Jersey Citv does not amount tc
| much to be sure. but it IL near Christina
/ and every dollar counts So after debating
| the question the teachers evidently de-
/ cided that attendance was the best
policy, and down they all came overflow
ing the auditoriums of School No. l.
| where the primary teachers convened and
School No. 9, where were packed the
/ grammar and High School teachers with
Edward Howard Griggs and few Others
! to address both meetings and incidentally
advertise a few odd Volumes AS for the
small boy, he had a picnic, the convention
| gave him a holiday and the street re-
/ sounded with yells of delight
| Both schools were decorated-appro-
priately decorated for Christmas too
| everything was marked free but when
one approached the tables bright with
magazine covers. it was only to find some
new series of printed matter for the bene-
| fit of teachers-"Sample copy free, .
..Good Christmas present and a few
Is.
In School No. after PRAYER by the Rev.
| d. B. f. Randolph. President of the Jer-
sew CITY Board of Education. John J. Null
yaney opened the convention with an ad-
dress of welcome in which he greeted the
out of town teachers. and then spoke of
the oppropriateness of the season for
holding such a convention because the
next weke or ten days would be the
chi,ren,s naradise on earth. and this was a
| good time to consider their happiness.
Miss Iouise ronnolly gave a talk on
| .aThe Mission of the Primary Teacher, .
which. she said. was to make the child S
| school life a happy one and destroy his
| idaa of the teacher Of the Xanthippe
tvpe a combination of straight iron gray
! hair glasses and bones, who rules him
with a rod of iron, although she strongly
objected, she said, to an overdose of
sweetness where everyone was darling, .
sspet' and Sweetness
Miss Grace B. Judge here sang solo
! by way of preparation for the next ad-
1 dress on Nervousness in Children, by
Miss Lille A. Williams, who spoke OF
the causes of nervousness in children
/ leaving little in life to enjoy without
! childist pleasures. In the first stage OF
| nervousness the child is among the br1gh-
est of his class-in the second stage ne Is
! I-languid. The causes she gave as
1 hereditory and bad management Piay
made the child nervous, pettlng made
them nervous, licking them made them
nervous, fine clothes made them nervous
| because they worried tnem' tneatres maue
them nervous, circuses mace tnem ner-
vous. and SO on until the teachers opeiieu
their eyes Wloe with Wonuer' ~. ~. ,nei.
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Mr.. howard Grlggs gave an ADDRESS OF
the Ethles OF School organization am
] Discipline" Children, he said, should no
be forced to sit perfectly quiet ike s.
A many mummies; they should be KEEP
reasonably quiet, but absolute silenc
should not be exacted The teache
should show consideration for the chill,
and the child would in turn show con
sideration for the teacher.
Mr.. G. G. Rounds. of New York. de
plored the fact that there was not enough
4 attention given to the instruction o
morals IN the schools
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fore mics ,ouisa f.onno1lv of New yorL
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