The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-11-01

The tw"nty-third annual county
teachers institute will close this morn
ing with Il final session beginning at !
o'clock. In connection with the session
held yesterday the annual meeting ot
the Directors association vas conduct
ed and two very abb" addresses W"r"
delivered by John |. stewart. deputy
state superintendent OF public instIu E
ton.
DR.. Mcclellan opened tn" morning S"s-
sion in the main court room yesterday
with a scholarly discourse on 'Thr
Proper Interpretation of Excelsior.
and was followed by Or. Willis. who
spoke briefly on school Management"
giving the teachers many valuable
hints regarding the conduct of affairs
in the school room. and especially the
maj cement of unruly children.
The primary teachers. who had been
listening in court room No. > tn talks
on Child Study" and "lliStury in the
primary Grades by Dr. Willis and
Miss Sutherland. respectively. filed into
the main court room for the final period
10 hear an amusing and Instructive
talk by Professor Little on wit and
IIumor in Picture and Poem The
professor seems to think that the or
binary schoo, is altogether too solemn
and drcary place and that the intro
huction OF a niue >nir'h ana lu'l no"
and then does not hurt the pupils in
the least and has the tendency to
brighten tnlheS UP all AROUND.
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The doctor declared mat ID" great
lesson taught by the poem was lhat
'hcaVen !oVe begins with nome love.
explaining that IN" lark. when 1t mas
reached the highest point OF It's hight
and is far out OF the sight or man,
Keeps up us Wondeflui cascade OF mel
"dE, that all on carth may near, ana
then flies down once more to its it'll"
nest home. Unless carried away by
storm, he Sald, the bird always returns
10 It's nest Whcn II reaches earth.
me second speaker OF IN" afternoon
was Daniel II. Nrlse, principal OF the
MaEheld schools, VINO read paper on
'The oualitlcaiions o! Il supervisor of
Schools in which he gave his views
ON the requirements which should b"
found in every person chosen To super
1ntendent the work OF cducation
All Supervisors. he said. must be
leaders of mind and thought in the
community and must be possessed Of
an engaging personality and the abil-
ity to handle th"s" under them in Il
proper spirit. God pity the supeln-
1endent,' said he, 'beforr whom all
the teachers trembc,"
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fNe'! SUPERVISOR ne S'i"' Hi"S' nave
'eeh Il succeSslu' te"chef' ana must
pe real euuca'of' not Il CLASS lec-
lUrcr. lie must be Il broad reader ana
d'SeStcr ana aSSllh'!at"r "' What ne
does read lie must be Il pIanner' an
organizer ana '"-ordlhator' SAID n"
;,y +" disce"n tho ro.si,I1on % and l'n "ron,'' ,n
ture teachers and weed them out"
Aftcr an lntHrmiSSlOn OF ilIlccn mn-
ntes Deputy State Superintendent John
I. Stewart was introduced. lie spoke
for about half an hour, addressing him.
self generally to the teachers and III :
rectors present He referred to tho
old-tlme schools which were in exist
ence when he was boy and said that
the mechanical teachers. who were 50
plentiful in those days, are rapidly
becoming scarcer and Scarccr and will
soon be all gone. This Is perhaps tho
most hopeful sign in the cducationa
world today, he thought
He declared that teachers should not
only have mora. character hut that
they should have positive moral char
acter," and said that teacher who
didn't have this latter would never he
a great teacher lie urged the dre'-