The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1903-09-09
EFFECTIVE WORK
IS BEING DONE
MANY INTERESTING ADDRESSES ARE
MADE AT THE MEETING OF
THE TEACHERS.
NOTED EDUCATORS ON HAND
Best Methods OF lnstructine Pupils Are
Pointed Out in Well De-
lvercd Speeches.


schools, the Teachers institute in session
this week in the high school building, IS
accomplishing large amount OF effective
work.
There are 200 teachers present at each
session. The sessions are divided into half
hour periods, with thoroughly competent
men and women as instructors.
This morning, after convening in the as
sombly hall. Dr. w. {. Baglcy of the State
Normal, gave q short address. The sub
jcct about which DIR. Bradley talked VAS
one lying at the heart OF the social prob
lem of the century--"Work and Play
Has Great Influence.
The speaker treated the subject as one
having great influence, and impressed his
audience with the idea tha, play is as
necessary to the well being Of a race and
individual as work, and vice versa.
He led out with the assertion that in
this day OF strenuous work it would not
be OF, of place to talk abou, work, and so
with play this, too. was enjoyed in a
strenuous manner that the two ideas OF
work and play we're not as far apart as
they seemed at first glance and when put
together they will 20 long way toward
making efficient and successful individuals.
Mans Greatest Conquest
In considering work, DR.. Baplcy stated
that the capacity to work was the great,
est conquest made by man. That the study
of history, science and art confirm this
view. The student OF biology. for instance,
shows that easy and simple conditions have
never been favorable 10 progress. In
ancient civilization, as well as in the civil
lation of today, strenuous effort always
has been necessary To rapid progress.
Races surrounded by the easiest and most
comfortable conditions never reach the
same heights as those races which have
had all things TO contend against.
The speaker went on TO state that a law
governing a race applied 10 the individual
and the lives OF great men showed that
strenuous effort had marked every hour OF
their existence.
Then he turned TO that part Of his sub
jcct called play. Here the doctor became
eloquent on the necessity OF play TO make
o well-rounded individual. lie described
' ork as activity toward a remote end, but
,lay as activity in which the end was inn
mediate.
according TO DR.. Baglcy one can ac-
complish more and reach 10 greater height
in the chosen work when some time is
given to pleasure, otherwise there is a
dwarfng of some of the finer things which
80 to complete race or an individual.
Gives Apt Point.
Miss Humphrey took up the subject OF
composition today and gave apt points in
the teaching OF this study. II was cYi.
dent in this, as in every other branch be
fore the institute so far that acclwatc';Ob-
seryaiion is being more generally apprc-
ciaicd as factor in education, especially
in the matter OF fuller vocabulary.
The instructors all put stress Oh this.
and affirm that the pupils will learn to talk
and write more correctly il they are
taught to see the things about them.
Miss Humphrey called attention TO the
fact that children should be taught To look
for the details rather than mere outline
Of subjects given them to write about.
Lessons on Singing.
Miss Pcttbonc continued her lessons on
singing, and the close attention OF the
classes indicated their interest in the mat
ter. 1t is necessary that each teacher in
the grades should be competent 10 teach
singing and under the instruction OF Miss
pctlbonc there will be little left nnsaid
that might even in the remotest manner
tend to assist them this next year.
Mrs. Young gave practical illustrations
IL the matter Of objects aiding in the de
yelopment Of eral expression The cee-
hrated pictures Of Millet, the "Angclus,"
"Sower" and "Glcancrs' were used as
lesson. First each picture was shown to
contain physical lines, then a moral les
son was drawn from each, followed by
the sum total OF what each picture con
tanned In this manner, according to Mrs.
ioung, all children could be taught TO sec,
understand and tell about any object under
observation.
Dir. Baglcy, as instructor, talked before
the upper grades on language. The un-
derlying principle Of the lesson he gave the
teachers contained the oft-forgotten fact
that oral expression was much more neccs-
sary to the education Of a child than writ
ten expression, that a child needed the
former every moment of his life, while the
latter was used occasionally that is among
the average run OF children,
Attentive Interest important.
In his short talk before the high school
teachers his subject was psychology, and
he did not fail to make all present under
stand that attentive interest is important
in education that when teacher finds she
cannot get the close attention OF the pu-
pills there is something wrong, the cause
Of which should be diligently searched
for.
Sometimes the cause may be in the man
ner Of placing the subject before the class;
il So another method should be used or
Il the reason lies in the apatheic condition
Of the childs mind this may also be cor
rccted.
Tomorrow the regular sessions will be
held in the morning, but in the afternoon
the teachers may take little recreation.
Miss Loughren and Mr.. Wharton arc
planning to take them all out to the Gar
dens for trolley ride through outlying
points of interest.