Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-05
NATIONAL EDUCATORS
VARIOUS MEETINGS AT ASBURY
PARK WE'LL ATTENDED.

ASBURY PARK, July 5.-Meetings OF the
various departments of the National Edu-
cattonal Association were well attended TO-
day. In the department Of normal schools
Grant Karr of Oswego. N. Y, discussed
How can the Normal School Best Produce
Efficient Teachers of the Elementary
Branches"
At the meeting of the department of art
education, a paper on Lessons TO be
Drawn From the International Drawing
Teachers Congress at Berne' was read by
Charles NJ Carter art director Of the Den
yer public schools.
1.-The Aims of Drawing as a Subject or
Public School instruction in the Primary
Grades" was the subject of an address by
Miss Emma NJ. Church of the Academy OF
Fine Arts of Chicago.
In the department of music education,
Miss Elizabeth Casterton, supervisor of
music of Bay City. Mich, spoke on The
Correlation of Music With Other Branches
of the School Curriculum
In the department of physical education
President Ehermann Arnold of New Haven
Conn, spoke on THE School Yard and lts
Importance TO the Well Being OF the
Child
E. A. Kirkpatrick of the State Normal
School. Fitchburg Mass, discussed Some
Simple Methods of Recognizing Physical
Fitness and Unftness of School Children
IOT ScIiool Wpih
District Woman's Address.
The question ''How far should physical
training be educational and how far recrea
tive in grammar schools considered by
Miss Rebecca Stoneroad, supervisor of
physical training in the public schools.
Washington, D. c. She said in part
1.-The true educational value of physical
training is that 1t is training for life. The
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high place in this connection, for in no
other form Of physical exercise can we get
in so short a time those qualities of quick
observation. reasoning. decision. nerve and
muscle control. The constant playing OF a
game secures accuracy and quickness of ex-
ecution generally termed skill. which en-
ables one not only to do this thing well.
but all allied movements, thus relating
them to the great purpose Of education
which Is the power to do.
1T Is by means of the class exercise that
we are enabled to influence each and all OF
the hundreds of children in a grammar
school The opportunity is given for a
personal inspection and Individual training
in posture and habit. School gymna sites.
although an artificial system of exercise.
Rave the advantage over plays and games
In our educational scheme on account or
their practicability We can give daily to
time in all seasons and under all conditions
of weather, without Fairgrounds certain
amount Of all-round physical exercise based
upon physiological principles, calling into
play all the muscles of the body. and so
planned and executed as to be Of the great
est educational value.
1T must be distinctly understood that
school gymnastics are not recrea ton They
are school work. I would never attempt to
substitute such work for the play of recess
Both departments of physical education.
the plays and games ard the formal gym
nastics. are necessary, and should go hand
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training.
While retaining the educational purpose
and value of physical training the method
OF teaching can be one which arouses in
troduce more of the recreative element into
what by its very nature could resolve itself
into dreary, monotonous drill The more
recreative the educational gymnastics and
the more educational the play the better
will be the system of physical training
adapted to grammar schools