The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1905-01-06
VIII The TEACHERS DAECEq
Would NOT HAYE A TEACHER THAT
cOULDE'r DANCE, SAYS HALL.
state Teaehrrs' Association Hears College
Presidents PrecePt. To Danes-Whas
wit the sherman County
P-dagOEues Dos

! The annual meeting of the Kansas
State Teachers association in Topeka
is over, and ia consequence there IS
great excitement among the teachers as
to whether they shall dance and teach
school, or throw up their jobs. A local
interest attaches to President Halls
new Pedagogic philosophy suggestive of
the question, what viii the Sherman
county teachers dO?''
Kansas teachers have been brought
to time by the command, Jack shall
pipe aud Gill shall dance theory of G.
Stanley Hall, president of Clark univer-
sity, Worcester, Mass. who declared in
his lecture to the state teachers asso-
citation, last Wednesday. that he had no
use for teacher that did not know how
to dance. This sage Of the East was
speaking on Motor Education letting
90 his ideas on play and movement in
educational theory and practice. His
motor philosophy became ALIEN
bracing until he exploded with enthusi-
asm for the Pedagogues, enjUining them
to
Trip l. as they <,
Oa tie light, fantastic s,c-
And to show them how nice it was the
gray haired professor gave them few
steps of ''Over the Waves" waltz on the
platform. He defended the art thus:
The basis of art is rythm. and the
basis of rythm is God. think that
some effort should be made To rescue
dancing from its present. environment
and faulty tendency. It's high and
noble art. 1t is one of the expressions of
religion and assuch has been utilized bv
the Greeks. the Hindoos aud other an
cient races 1t trains the person. body
and mind into a harmonious relation
ship. Why. should almost say that
would not have a teacher who didn't
know how to dance. For nv own part
[ enjoy the dance, I believe It aids
and strengthens me morally. physically
and mentally"
Seeing that his startling statements
were taking the breath out OF his ortho-
dOx hearers, President Hall began to
bring them to with these Tesuscitating
remarks: However, 1 have DO Use for
the modern bail room dance; it is moth
ing but d degener;4ied form of the old
aTt,- but real dancing believe in.
He gave his audience another jolt by
advocating dancing in the school aud
said> No child should ga through the
world without learning how TO dance.
As a gymuastiC It Is one of the best
forms of physical culture I know of.
believe some effort snuuld BE- made to
take it away from tIs tvO-step stage"
Prof. ). V. Mallory. principal of the
Sherman county :sh school was 1t To-
peka and heard tUe Hall lecture lie
too .s7us ia "a, .,.sI al Id ,..th DR..
Hall, but even then tii-,,;gIt h WAS Of
the minority bUt WAS aIdece.ved later
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and "Bedali1'
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