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Wasco County Institute.
The annual teachers institute Of
wasco county was called to order by
Superintendent Gilbert, Wednesday
morning, September 4th. In his OPEN
ing remarks the superintendent said he
had attended l3 institutes in Wasco
county and had called the teachers to-
gether six times; that an average Of 81
months school was held during the year,
against Ga months last year and little
more than months the year preceding.
This is surely encouraging.
Thursday, the number Of teachers in
creased TO SO. Superintendent Landers
led eachssession OF the institute in sing
ing. The instructors were President
W. G.. Hawley of Willamette university /;
Professor r. G. French, principal train
ing department, Monmouth; City Su-
perintendent Landers Of The Dalles pub
tic schools. Each subject was presented in
clear and logical manner and was we'll
received by the teachers.
President Hawley delivered several
talks on history and civil government,
taking up the subjects together and
showing their relation and association.
He took the circumstances leading up
to the adoption of the constitution, fol-
lowing the history OF England and our
separation from her rule; also the quail
ifieations Of president OF the United
States, senator and representative, show
ing that they were growth and natural
development and not accidental circum-
Stances, and why our government took
the form it did and not that OF king.
dom. He also presented the subject,
physiological psychology" taking for
his subject, "What is in Our Heads2r
He said all there is in the world is in
our heads; that our brain contains 600,
100000 to 2,000,000,000 cells, and the
number remains the same through life
that no man has ever developed all the
cells in his brain, but that more were
being developed at present than ever
before, and more being developed in the
United States than in any other country,
all on account of the development Of
our public school system. A child be.
comes honest or dishonest, good or bad
according to the development of the
cells. Cells develop by use, and if used
in the right direction, good would re.
suit, or the opposite. All education
should be to make the child feel that ht
is capable only Of good and incapable OF
bad. He congratulated our schools and
country on the fact that SO many of our
noble young men and women devoted
themselves to the cause OF education.
Professor French presented the sub.
jects OF reading, numbers and geography
Throughout his work he used small
boy to illustrate his work, or called upon
teachers to work at the blackboard. He
explained the meaning Of true reading
and the necessity of better understand.
ing OF reading. In number work he pre-.
sented the various combinations OF pri-
mary numbers and that frequently per.
picking subject, fractions. In geogra.
ply he showed, by presenting a few
articles clipped from magazines, how
easy it was to secure material for work.
Superintendent l,anders discussed the
high school course recently adopted.
He said lack Of uniformity had caused
much confusion and led to consid.
erable discussion and finally adoption OF
a uniform state course, which is a COM
bination of the various courses in the
state, as well as including some things
from other sources. He also talked on
"Music in Public Schools"
The teachers of The Dalles served Wis
iting teachers with ice cream and cake
on Wednesday evening. A very pleas
ant time was the opinion of all present.
Thursday evening President Hawley
gave a most interesting and instructive
lecture on the Declaration of Independ.
ence. Friday evening Professor French
gave a very instructive and pleasant
lecture on "a Trip to Europe" illus.
trated. Saturday, Professor Campbell
OF the normal school and Superintend-
ent Ackerman talked to the directors
and patrons of the schools Of Wasco
county. At this meeting Is of the II
districts of Wasco county were repre-
sented.
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