Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-04
LEARN LESSONS
FROM TEACHERS
LIVES OF EDUCATORS FORM
TEXT OF ADDRESSES
Third Days Session Of Catholic Insti-
tute at Hollywood Attended by
15o Tesehers--Adlourns
TIL Monday

one hundred and fifty Sisters are
now registered at the Catholic Teach
ers' institute at Hollywood, and ell of
them were present at Fridays ses-
slons, which are the last to be held
till Monday morning at 10 o'clock.
Miss Alice ]. Stevens of Los Angeles
discussed THE Book of Ethics" at the
morning session.
"In studying this book there are
three prominent characters that ap-
pear as settings to bring out the strong
features In the character of Queen
Esther" said Miss Stevens. First
Mordecai the Jew-her uncle, her fos-
ter father and her lifelong guardian;
second, the king who espoused her;
and third. Haman, the arch conspira-
tor, an hereditary enemy of the Jew
the man whose influence over the king
was greater than that of any one else
in the realm, and whose ultimate
downfall was the result of pride and
ambition"
To Form Character
Sister Loyola discussed Attention
and Memory, Factors in Education"
Said the speaker: tn
"Our aim is to form character to
uplift human, immortal minds. Our
worl-intellects to be formed and fur
nshed and nurtured, sensibilities to be
must not demand swift educational
current and be content with shallower
depth. else our education will mean
revolution, not evolution"
Sister Loyola proved by citing Ches-
terfield. Hslvetius and Button that at
tention-steady, undissipated attention
applied to a single object constitutes
genius. She suggested that we might
gain this genius by enlisting the good
t1,to Of Oh
and she maintained that interest could
not be obtained by threats or by ap-
peals. 1t was useless to reason with
the children on it's Importance, because
1t depends not on the child but on the
teacher Attention rises or falls in
proportion to the teachers ability; in
attention is the teachers sin, not the
pupils.
Power of Memory
The power to retain in memory fol-
lows in direct ratio the attention given
Entangle your subject in a network of
associations: form diverse. multiple
associations with any fact you care to
retainx- this is the secret of good
memory.
Friday afternoon Bishop Conaty dis
cussed the life of st. John Baptist de
la Sale.
'In 1880 De la Sale was made doctor
of divinity. He soon came in contact
with his life work through the interest
which he manifested in the schools
and became patron of band of school
masters.
"In order to continue their work and
to improve their condition on July "a,
1881, Canon De la Sale took the teach
ers of the schools into his own house.
taught them and inspired them with
his own love for the work. He resigned
his canonry and cast his lot with the
young community.
Some of the teachers finding the
task too difficult and the discipline too
severe. left the school work, while
those who remained formed the nue.
leus of the first Brothers of the Chris
tian Schools. Our saint soon saw the
good which could be done by conse-
Grated men devoted exclusively to
education.
"They taught children to read and
write. and also taught the catechism
and arithmetic enough for the ordinary
affairs of life.
Christian Mothers
with twelve disciples as nucleus
it became necessary to formulate rules
and constitution for the new COM
munity."
From this small beginning grew an
order that now has 1000 alone in the
United States engaged in school and
orphan work, and 10000 Christian
Brothers teaching the world over.
The bishop PAID a tribute to the
splendid work done by the Christian
Brothers and said that education owes
them debt of gratitude for their con-
tributions to education and the church
a debt of gratitude for the splen-
did results in their religious work in