The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-20

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Association in meeting for Bettermeht
of School Houses.
S:45 O'Clock y. m.-SOciety for Bet
terment of school Houses meets III
PuIIcn Hall. Dr. c. ID. Mclver ana
others will speak.
This is the beginning of the third
week of the Summer School and 1t
will continue one week after this
Although the teachers are not re-
ouired to have but two weeks OF
summer school instruction, only fifty
six had obtained their certificates and
returned home yesterday morning.
Over forty-five new arrivals had
reported for the last two weeks of the
school and others are expected today
and tomorrow.
The Teachers Equipment.
At noon Prof. j. b. Carlisle spoke
to the teachers in Pullen Hall poth
eIouuently and in a practical vim, on
the Teachers Equipment.
The large opportunities before the
teacher require thorough equipment
said the lecturer. The physician,
LAWYER and soldier each require spe-
cial preparation for his work. Surely
the teacher. the minds physician,
seeking to cure the ills of ignorance,
the souls advocate stirring to WIN
over from darkness to light, the
warrin of truth battling for righte-
BUSINESS against enron, also made thor
ough equipment.
The first essential to tacher's sue
cess is a strong personality, at once
positive persuasive and pervative,
filling the school atmosphere with an
influence which will reach to the re-
hottest points of the community.
Another essential is hard, general
culture The teacher must know
more than the text book: history, bio
graphy, fiction, poetry, must each
make it's contribution to the teacher.
Shakespeare, Milton, IenlSsoh
Browning, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne,
Carlyle, Gibbons, Bancroft and all the
other masters of literature are within
the reach of every teacher But we
must not stop with them. The daily
newspapers and the current maya
zine must be read and utilized in the
tasks of the school
Another essential is special train
ing in the art of teaching. Expert
ence is a good teacher. teacher that
is necessary to success, but how much
longer good can be accomplished
when experience is aided by special in
struction. The experience of the best
and greatest teachers of the past can
be had through normal instruction
and pedagogical text books and every
teacher should have it.
Another essential is an unselfish
and sympathetic spirit. This is fun
damental. The strong personality and
broad culture and special training
will all fail without the sympathetic
spirit. A fifth essential is ceaseless
perseverance and patience.
The teachers of North Carolina, are
today better equipped, better organ
lied and more efficient than ever be-
fore.
In closing, Prof. Carlisle paid an
eloquent tribute to Governor Aycock,
saying that with his inauguration in
900 a new day had dawned for the
teachers of the State; that his advent
as governor had marked the begin
ming of the end of the servile condi-
ton of those who were striving for
educational progress; and he pre-
dicted that in the future. when litter
acy should have been baniShed from
the land, when liberty should have
become supreme, when the rights of
all should be the will of all, that,
sharing honors with Vance, the early
tribune of the people, the statue of
Aycock of Carolina marble, would
stand as the monuments of the man
who, after the dawn. had brought his
people to the perfect day.
Art and Nature Study.
The two most popular courses at
the school are probably those of Mr..
John Blair, in free hand drawing, and
Mrs. Stroms, in nature study.
Why Mr.. Blair should teach school
is a mystery by which the profession
profits and the reading public misses q
deligt Those of us-that is all of us
are familiar with G. d. Gibson, his
proud and a little bit tiresome women,
and his strong, earnest, neglige men.
Mr.. Blair, in his working clothes of
flannel is the Gibson man in the flesh
and his four chalk marks dashed il
lustratively on the blackboard are of
the Gibson standard, with the Blair
individuality.
On the blackboard yesterday there
was a rail fence, through the bars of
which peered a rigid setter dog, one
leg poised in mid-air, the tail extended
the eyes cleaning in facinated excite
ment.~ You could almost see the tense
culver run over his frame, the tremb-
ling of his legs, the twitching of his
wide blown nostrils.
Another picture was a sedate camel
that stood on high legs anchored to a
post, while his Hindoo master sat at
his feet, enveloped in the one garment
of the East and his high turban-sat
motionless, with knees drawn high to
his chin, while he smoked his noon
day pipe.
| saw there was a Hindoo, but that
was true unless you looked at him
with glance that took in the whole
scene at one and the same time. If
you looked at that Hindoo carefully
you observed that he was but half a
dozen roughly drawn chalk lines.
Truly it was wonderful work.
Through Mr.. Blair the school has
obtained the loan of one of the most
complete and artistic collections of the
reproduction of both ancient and mod
ern art ever exhibited in the South.
The collection which is called the
Horace K. Turner Exhibit" is COM
posed of $50 reproductions of famous
paintings, three by four feet in size,
handsomely mounted and finished with
a new and remarkably vivid process.
The pictures will be hung in the Ii
brary and the only charge of admis-
sion will be ten cents, for which a
catalogue of the exhibit will be fur
nished.
Enthusiastic Bird Hunters.
Mrs. Stevens, who was forced to rub
out Mr.. Biair's dog, but left the camel,
devoted her lecture yesterday to the
nature study class to the practical