Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-07-07
EDUCATIONAL BUREAU
Under Direction Of KATE MARKHAM POWER.
institute Conductors Assigned.

The superintendent has just made
his assignment of institute conduc-
tors, who will, during the month OF
August, visit the various counties
of the State and hold from one to
four weeks institutes with the teach
ers. A day will be fixed for popu-
lar rally, the trustees, board OF edu-
eatien and patrons Of the schools
will be invited to meet with the
teachers, to discuss current educa-
tional questions. The University
Normal has been in session since the
18th of June, with an attendance
of about three hundred teachers.
The primary teachers school will
opened at Columbus last week.
A faculty of specialists has
been articulated by DR.. Arnold
Thompson and Miss Florence OF
Chicago. This will probably be the
strongest school for primary teach
ers ever held in the South; work
will be done by specialists selected
from the best training schools of the
United States. The railroads have
given a rate of one fare for the
round trip.
Superintendent Whitfield was
asked in regard to the Importance OF
the county institutes that are to be
held this summer in every county
in the State. He said:
/ think it is of the greatest impor
tancs to the schools of the State, and
| | hope that the teachers generally vii
| avail themselves of the opportunity
they have this summer for betterins
| themselves for their work. Probably
! the greatest educational need OF the
| State is better trained teachers. Il
| is quite noticeable that those countie!
where the county superintendents have
always required the teachers to at
tend institutes, the educational senti
ment is better and they have bette
/ schools than have those counties tina
have been careless IL regard to thei
institutes. | do not think that train
ing counts for so much in any othe
| training or profession as 1t doe
| with the profession of teaching. Th'
| human mind is the highest and mos
| complex of all Gods creations, AM
| those that have the direction OF tn
education of our children should b.
required not only to be well grounded
| in scholarship, but should also under
stand those great principles that un
| derlie human development. Withil
the last few years the prominen
/ teachers of the country have givel
] most careful study to the education
al theories and schools of the past
| that the teachers of today may hav
at their disposal the best that ha
been worked out, in any age an
country. This matter has been print
ed in books and in this age OF grea
competition it is necessary that tn
| children should not be experiments
| with by ignorant teachers, but tina
| those who presume 10 Teach sAoui
know what has been worked out an
tested
! In the county institutes, where tn
terms will be as much as four weeks
a large amount of textbook work wi
be done.
The teachers of Mississippi have
peculiar responsibility on them at thi
time. The State has very largely II
creased its appropriation to the CON
mon schools, great many countie
and towns have levied taxes to SUI
plement what the State is doing, an
the people will expect that this grea
expenditure of money will result l
having much better schools. | believ
that our teachers in the main realiz
fully this responsibility, and Will er
deavor to better prepare themselve
for the work that the teachers ca
do.