The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-12-03
TEACHERS listen
TO EDUCATORS
The Opening of the Fifth Annual
Institute of the Carbondale City
Observation-Disclosures Gathering in
the Central School Building.

eachers-Animated Gathering in
the Central School Building.
There was an animated gathering
in the auditorium of the Central school
building yesterday afternoon, when
city Superintendent Elmer f.. Carr
formally opened the fifth annual in
stitute of Carbondale city teachers. AS
is true of all institutes, the male teach
orS are in what might be turned a
hopeless minority, as there are not
more than a half dozen. their fair as
sociates outnumbering them by dozens.
There was a delay in some of the
instructors reaching Carbondale. so
that it was 8 o'clock. almost. when
he session opened, with a vocal eXer
Use. In the meantime the teachers
presented quite an animated picture
as they chatted and discussed the
prospects of the weeks entertainment
and instruction before them.
The first speaker was Professor
Charles II. Albert, of West Chester
Normal school, Il man whose sound
idea and well said things on matters
educational have caused him to be in
demand in institute work.
Prof. Albert's topic was "E,ducation
an Tnfoldng.' He spoke from the
standpoint that teaching is not the
mere keeping of school: it is no sci
oncc, though it may be done scientific
ally: it is the urt--the art, he said
with emphasis--of promoting human
growth. Anything you can do, he
said to the teachers, to promote the
growing of your children to make them
show new power of development of
mind and morals is proof that your
scholars are being educated. educated
towards the intellectual and the moral
Way. Art, says Ruskin, is the express
sion of mans joy in his work. There
fore. the one who is wholly lost. who
is wholly absorbed in unfolding before
the mind of the pupil the things that
go to his development and growth is
the one who is teaching and not
keeping school.
1t matters not what device YOU use.
this is only an aid to making the
method clear: what you want to do
is to put your children in the condi-
1ion of growing, not growth: growth
is the finish; it means stagnatiOn.
Children who are growing are placing
themselves in harmony with their sur
roundings like the newly planted tro"
that thriVcS on the soil and the sun
shine.
The public school stands for the
moral training, as well as the mental
training of the child. TO make your
children think, is ~ good definition of
what the work of the teacher is.
Thinking is seeing relations. All that
YOU have done or all that I have done
is to discover relations. the relation
between this thing and the other. The
first six years of the childs life he
goes here and there. wherever his in
Stinct leads him. After that, when he
comes into the school the problem is
To lead him upward and forward. He
wants more than books, he wants n
larger hold on the meaning of life.
DR.. schaeffer's talk.
DIR. n. g. Schaeffer, state superin-
tendent of instruction, was next pre-
Sented by Superintendent Carr. Dr..
Schaeifer hardly needed an introduce
tiG. While it was his first time in
carbondalc, it was not the first time
that he had been heard by Carbondale
teachers. Many of them heard him in
The county institutes and those who
did not read his teaching and learned
to value thcm
Dr.. Schaelfer is SO practical. lie
discounts theories for their full value
but his years of experience have
brought him face To face with so many
facts that he is never at the loss of
the value OF the practical side of an
educational question. His talk on this
occasion was OH the subject, Does
Education Pay" and before he was