Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-12-19


expected 10 develop with intelligence. Ter
tain conventiona'ities are necessary as is
conventional language, hich the child Ia
learning TO use ana thus makes many
Dlunders. don't advocate lying; 1t tase
two people TO lie. one to speak and one to
hear. We can only judge of the mes ning OF
a man and uf his accuracy by the WORDS he
uses. We use evAsiOns in answering child's
questions ttLt often lead to confusion in his
mind. The lie of terror Is a usual one, and
there is the lie positive, where he holds two
thoughts In his mind. and deliberately tells
the ialsu one. We insist on the average
STANDARD for grown peOpe, but many people
delight in their children possessing higher
morality than themselves. II We compare
the actual conduct Of children with that of
adults, the child's record will be II little
cleaner. The lie OF sympathy reveals
complex moral situation, II Is a struggle OF
two motives, The hioral situation in our
lite Is q complex one. The lie OF vanity in
girls and tie lie OF bfagadoccio In boys
have been considered by the new psycho.o-
gist In roncusion give seven PROPOSE
tons on truth-tellihp and lying: First, expect
lying 10 give way TO truth telling, appeal TO
the desire 10 tell straight story; second,
do not kill his imagination; third, the in
stinct Of truth-teIling is almost universal
with children; fourth games will develop
this instinct; fifth, the chitu's likes and dis
likes; SIXTH thu c0ulage OF tho child;
seventh, remember TINT every child is an
individual y
line exercises concluded with solo by
Miss Josephine Fletcher.
Thursday afternoon 3 session of the
Wilmington Teachers Institute opened
with the inging o. 1.-The Blue Birds
Song by he teachers. The first period
was filled by DR., Wilmer on "ApEer
ceptiun and the Growth OF Indiv du-
atty" lie said:
"Apperception is the term applied to
that fioulty which elaborate uensa.
tions. We read ino perception some
thing that has come into our experience
before. Perception due to constructive
activity of the mind and tine retinal
image is augmented by it. All our ar
csptions are mod fed by other percep-
tions associated with them at the slme
time. Architect and artists know that
q square always looks taller than wide
and the Greeks made their q luares a
little broader than tall 10 ornamental
tion perception is succession OF
events, never fixed, sometimes deter
mined by the object, sometimes by your
habit OF apperceptiou. Look at llustia
tions and pictures and your eyes begin
at the right of the picture and go
toward the left. These conditions
underlie all perception We have apper-
ceptional bab It's, they correspond 10 our
points Of view. 1t Is difficult to change
mans point Of view, especially on
political questions; We must ga;n the
admission of new facts, psrhaps pre-.
sented 10 an unusual light, upon his
apperception in order to change his
vote. Taee the physician and the
! Christian Scientist; one RpperceiVes IL
as due to o germ, the soient sits as due
to an ida. Two persons may perceive
o thunder storm one divefcr the feather
bad and the other would not One =
| apperception is Always due to one S
point OF view. The process Of sensa-
tion ia the natural endowment OF every
normal person. Psychology gives us
sensation, imagination, also a natural
endowment and apperception under
which we class the changes and mOdi
fications brought about 10y experiences.
Apperception is onto-genetic, Or
changes in individuality and hereditary
faculties.
Miss Virginia Jones sang solo,
"Wheu the Tide Comes In. "
Mr.. Stetson then gave talk or
"Reading 40 Imprinted Page - He
SAID: I'VE confine ourselves largely. in
reading the printed page, nut we car
read to master the thought to drink IL
it's wisdom and beauty. A speaker
always reveals him ;elf aa does the
writer and the painter. We have elias,
nov who say that art is for the artist
hut no artist, worthy the name, painti
unless he has message for the world
Children should not only be ao1uain CT
with the great authors but with thu
great ia ntsrs. Edwin Markham sa
Tor hours before Millet's Man Witt
the Hoe and produced great poem
but it seems to Inc instead of seeing al
the circle cf the picture he eaw only
segment OF it. Hers is a picture O
Millet who toiled as peasant but Tor
tunately had grandmother who say
10 him the possibility of greatness
Born as easant and lived peasant
he was the great peasant painter Ia
the picture The First Step' tn
man 10 the picture is the man we can
do without. The safety OF the countr
depends not on its rulers bat IN i;
common peop The Sower' 8 til
one of ali MiIlet's pictures fnr me
Here is his picture Of This SheI
/ berdess. The CIR, is what she is he
. cause she has had tho time 10 rom
, mune with God and nature. LOOK no
the figures are bowed in The Ar
selus. Is the Man With the Hoe
bowed in the same way? The o.
! painters made tho Madonna like tn
D dienified Roman matron added to tn
motherhood OF thu Hebrew woman "
! MIR. Stetsnn made his talk interest
ing hy show ng prints of each gres
Z picture on which he made most intel
: esting comments
3 After a 10 minutes recess a sons
$ "You'll Win if You Persovere, -" We
I sung by the audience The next perio
= was occupied by Prof, albert on eth
. Five Herbartian Principles
"if the preaching of Rousseau an
/. Pestalozzie were summarized in or
g word it would be motherhood an til
> highest tyne OF tearher. Frosble sal
. not motherhood but womanhood. 1t
my theory that children should somi
3 time cone under the tutogage Of strou
Q man. The key word OF Lockian phi
: osophy is instruction, the build Z
$ into the child. Kaut said it was edit
y cation, the leading out of the child
y ,owers. Ilerbart ga d that Locke an
Il Haut we're both wrong; that cha act,
y was the keynote of life Herbart's fiji
r great principles for good teaching wert
e First, Preparation of heart and int
i loot ssGond, presentation; third, cor
u bination of the salient points; fourtl
:, a the recapitulation twe're getting tt
IL far away from the good cd fsshiont
J. review and drills fifth, apple alto
ell lIerhart said All can ever do for
g dog leaves him a dog; whatever 1 I
?. Tor a boy leaves him not the same boy
le DO your work so well that the hoy
i girI will grow better every day. App