The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1903-09-08
Instructors Gather in the
Butte High School
Building.
! -RAL NEW FACES
: .ious Classes in Charge
of Learned and Able
Educators.

With little noise and no friction The
roth annual meeting OF Silver Bow teach
ers convened this morning in the assembly
hall OF the Butte high school
New faces are seen among those well
known IN the various schools OF the city
and county.
This morning the sessions opened with
short address by City Superintendent
Young. The speaker confined his
talk 20 the necessity ol prompiness
in attendance At the various classes during
the institute. Many excellent things were
said and the close attention OF the teach
crs would indicate that they intended to
heed the admonition given.
Assemblaee OF Classes.
Then followed the asscmbagc OF the
classes ~ other rooms, where each class
was IN charge OF competent instructors.
Those III charge Of classes today include
Miss Adele Humphrey. Miss Dnsmore,
Miss Pclibonc, Mrs. X. q. Young, Pro
fcssor laglcy, Professor Hamilton ni
Professor Young
Each Of these instructors il specialist
in his line and IS thoroughly competent
to take charge of the class work.
In literature Miss Humphrey is 10
charge. aud IN teaching the various grade
work in this branch today proved herself
master ol the situation
The method usel dealt with the prac-
tical result Of literature On the growing
mind its necessity IT, culture ~ one 81
the studies which was always beginning
hut never ending, and the speaker showed
that all countries OF the world were
classcd IN civilization according 10 their
progress IN literature, art and science
rather than by their utilitarian cndcavors.
Miss Humphrey went somewhat outside
the usual method III teaching literature
and gave the lesson a wider significance
than would appear at first view.
Method in Language.
Mrs. Young has charge Of the teaching
Of methods in language. This speaker
dwclt on the natural embodiment of the
child mind and advised that practical les
sons in speaking from observation would
tend to make a child more apt in lam
puagc. that il is desire TO initiate which
hampers; teach child 10 observe every
thing and 10 express his idea Of il mem.
DRY comes from accurate observation and
language naturally follows An old phrase
which says, Know a thing as il ought 10
be known and il can be told as il ought
TO be told" is carried out in this teaching.
According to Mr.. Young all things are
divided into the utilitarian aud cultural,
so with this in mind the teacher can grad
ually lead the young mind Of children into
the fuller life OF the adult, where culture
is supposed TO burst into flower
Professor Hamilton Of the University OF
a Il
geography He said that learning geo
graphy on practical observation surpassed
all the old methods III text books; that
geography is nothing more nor less than
the understanding Of the country about
one, and in getting wider knowledge
this must be used as a foundation.
History Also included.
History was also included in the lessons
of Professor Hamilton today. IN this
study he Described the tendency Of the
past to cxaggcraiion from one or another
point Of view, showing that this had an
influence to dislort the ideas Of children
and eventually bias their opinions, when
the great necessity was 10 teach a child to
be ms free from prejudice as possible.
In the music department Miss Esther
Pcttibonc is in charge, as Miss Fiuncgan
has not yet returned from her home in the
East.
In teaching music Miss Pcttihone con-
siders that car training is first. A child
should be taught that music appeals TO the
mind through the auditory organs, and in
tcaching one TO catch an air is 10 develop
these organs to finer vibration, thus cult
Yatng Il desire to listen for notes express
siv. OF finer things.
Simple Methods Urged.
Then She advocates the simplest
methods Of getting pupils to open the
throat, that sounds may issue IN natural
manner. One thing Miss Pettbonc inn
pressed Oh her large class of teachers was
the fac. that no one Should in any way
indicate to child that it was difficult to
sing. Just give him to understand that it
is the natural thing t. do and nnc times
out of 10 there will be no difficulty.
Too many, she said, are prone to give
the impression that singing can not be
done by all. and this plants fear in each
child that he is the exception. Until this
method is banishcd, she held, it will be
more difficult to teach singing in the
school room.
Prof Young Is teaching the use Of text
hooks, and his methods are full OF prac-
tcal knowledge The text book is an in-
strumcnt through which the child is sup
posed to acquire the knowledge of the
world, but it is by the proper use of a
text book that child may be assisted. It
is merely pointer directing the way, ac-
cording 70 Mr. Young, and should not oc-
cupy a more exalted place in the educa-
ton OF the child.
Class Of Psychology
Dr. Bagley, of the Dillon Normal school,
las charge OF the classes of psychology.
In speaking on This subject DR., Bnsley
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