The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-03-21

Give little time to social contact with
your community: read your county
newspaper, some larger papers and
magazines, and some of those publlca-
tionS intended especially to aid the
teacher to correlate school and life
Next study universal human life, lit
crature-nOt textbooks about iltCrtt-
turc, but great books themselves which
you can read for enjoyment. Literature
IS the esscense of culture. In this day
of the variety OF courses, 1t should be
the common meeting ground OF the
liberally educated 1t is the record of
the highest achievements OF our clvlll-
zation. The great function OF educa-
tion IS to bring the people into warm
ana vital contact with the loftlest and
best in man.
Therefore YOU must have this taste
for literature as condition of educat-
ing Others. So far IS books are con-
cerned. the most important thing that
YOU can do for your children is to cul-
tivate in them a taste for good reading
The company that we keep in books
may have as real an influence on char
acter as the company of the outside
world. Besides, the reading habit is
source of immense harmless enjoyment
and one of the most powerful rivals of
temptation. It is indispensable, TOO, to
true success in other studies. as history
and geography.
Hence every teacher should work for
a school library and then take it as
part of her professional training to
make a sympathetic study of children's
tastes and learn to guide them.
Unfavorably connected with the
study of literature is the mastery Of the
mother-tongue, the ability to under
stand it and TO use it. This is a part OF
the pedagogies, for the lifelong study
of the teacher, as of the writer. is to
learn to make things clear. 1t is mis-
take to regard language as merely a
means of conveying thought. It is the
tool Of thinking ITSELF Probably the
of errors in thinking arise
from errors in the use of language,
then the chief means of teaching our
children to think clearly is to teach
them to use language accurately. This
training in the use of language is con-
dition of success in other studies to
much greater extent than is usually
realized. From the purely utilitarian
standpoint. it is becoming more indis-
pensable every year. This is the age of
association and organization in every
business Or profession. Men OF all vo-
cations meet for influence and standin 6
their fellows. the power to eX-
press their views, on feet or with pen.
But general culture is not sufficient.
The times demand professional educa-
ton as we'll.
The speaker then gave several sug-
gestions as to the study of McMurry's
Method of Recitation" one of The
books prescribed by the State Board of
for the study Of teachers.
After the address Professor Daniel
called upon J II Lesesne, Esq, who,
although ''disarmed" as he claimed,
demonstrated that he was guilty of
concealed weapon. for he
was unconsciously loaded and brim-
ming full of educational talk. and he
fred volley after volley of hard sense
into the body Of teachers, and he also
took advantage of the occasion to ad-
rertise the fact that he was mot DID,"
and that he has "a strong sympathy for
Professor Daniel would not be hims
self, if not courteous, and to crafty
yearning desire, and our modesty,
which we took along to the meeting.
he introduced US TO that assemblage of
and strenuous appeal
ers to pride and hide. After bubbling
over with thanks for the distinction,we
said a few words to those pretty women,
what it was we know not, but then we
felt safe, because they were too nice to
talk back at us as we were their guests,
but we do not take such chances often,
not even at home.
The meeting was grand success,
and we hope the association will profit
by the great lesson taught it by Pro
lessor u Nardlaw.