Arizona republican., 1903-12-29

tions of the city. mentioning that i among other places of interest to which the citizens of Phoenix could point with pride the pest house on seveSth street is the chief attraction. The response to-, the address of welcome was made by Superint tendent C. F. Phillb.ock. of Williams. He spoke in glowing terms of the warmpth of the welcome extend ed to the visiting teachers, saying that it was appreciated especially by those who came, as he did, from beyond the snow line in the northern part of the territory.
 The association then witnesse1 very pretty exhibition of Indian club swing ing by Q class of six young men from the high school.
 The next on the programme was paper, Spiritual Education" by Sure-- intendent A. H. Mcclure, of the Nc gales schools. Mir. Mcclure, though ex perienced in school work in the east is
 newcomer to Arizona, but mae a
 very favorable impression on the asso- citation by the manner in which he handled his subject. He spoke of the spiritual training of the child, that i~,
 the training of the finer sensibilit es,
 of imagination and appreci tion,
 through the right teaching of lite.ature
 in the schools. The average man, he says. is unable to appreciate fully the
 beauty and inner meaning of even or dinary literature. In the child, the i'm aginative faculties are prominent, but
 as the material education increase2, the spiritual decreases. This is to be de
 plored and should be prevented by giv- ing more attention to the spiritual edu-
 cation throughout the course, but es-
 pecially in the lower grades. The sp'r-
 itual development is often neglected by the teacher because it is harder to grade the progress of the child in it
 than in the material, but it is as inn portant to attend to the development of good sensations and the suppression of bad in the child. as to develop gc cd concepts, and correct the poor. The heart may be educated through music, through art, and through literature, but as the sensations received through art and music are more transitory, lit erature is the most value ble. Litera-
 ture then, and classical literature. should receive attention earlier in the course than t does. As this spiritual development is often neglected in the home. it is most important that t
 receive attention in the school. The teacher should especially interest him.
 self in instilling q taste for good liter ature in the child. The taste for Po7r ltera ture often has first to be ove--
 come, but sven that is not a bad s.gn,
 as the love for this kind may gradually be chsnged to Q love for the better
 The influence of good reading on thu actiors of mankind is important and if the taste for the right kind is deve'oped
 it will gradually work reformation in society.
 Supt. w. w. McNen followed with g. very admirable paper delivered in an impressive manner. on the subject. The School. a Fsctcr in the Develop
 mcnt Of Character" He said in part! "Character is what we are, not what men think We are" The strength of the nation is in her men of character. Write the biography of the men los character of the world and you have written the history Of the world. h. l tel,ectual culture is net the standard