The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-04
ADVANCE;
One [. EXCEPTION ] ( n
Teachers Are Paid No More Nov!
Than III 1870, Says pr.
5sE S53si MI Mitchell. IIssS
MANY Spring TEACHERS I E I l FRS
Methods of Instructors Arousingl
Much Interest on Part$of 4.
8gS3st85 Pupils. g5$s3s55 5I555

x DR.. 81 6. Mitchell began his series OF
lectures before the Summer Normal yes 't' Y
terday at 2:15 o. clock. 1le prefaced i}li1
remarks BY mentioning o visit recently
paid 70 DR.. Ruffner, OF Lexington. Ya.,3
who was tho first state Superintendent
OF Public Instruction and the fat her4 Of
tho present school system He said that at
the history ~ the Virginia public schools,
showed remarkable progress In every d. d.
ireotlonS except one, namely, the salary Of
the teachers. title workers." he said,
5''got no more than they did In 1870. when
the system was first estnbllshed.'' 'Fss Dr.
Mitchell then took up the French Revo.
luton, Ills first lecture being on the
i.tcauses OF that great struggle l.l
spoke OF the direct Influence upon the
political issues OF the age exorted by such sue
men rs Rousseau, ltaire, T,lrg OF and
8Mirnbeau. 81 He Will continue. his course
on Thursday at the same hour I'll n
Stirs Enthusiasm.
Miss Ethel Ways, . Of Passnic, v N as III
Z who works under Prof essor o. u 900
ley has arrived \, and has awakened much
enthusiasm among tho teachers ~ \ J: h 1,'l
charming personality and gcontagiouss en- ~
3thusasn1. Miss Julia Rogers, Of East
NsF ''-T
attractive In her classes in nature Htudy. u
Miss Rogers Is the author OF Q very In Is
Steresting book on "A rees, II and ID now
at work upon another on Shells, q, Whicfg
Will $be published In q short time. 8S \ es-
terday she addressed the teachers on
Destructive Insects, and ~ How to Get
Rid of Them 5$ Is S. il8 "a d
sS N Miss Galeskl. who SO IS succ essfulllyt
conducted the !. = NJ del SCHOOL, last week,
Is nov doing 3tio Same work at the
colored High and Normal Division OF
the Summer School. AK s ll558sstst
For Creative Faculty.
55 Mrs. w warwick Read, Of Claremont Col
Slege, North Carolina, who y Is. by the
way, ri a Virgininn BY birth, has charge
of the drawing and water color depart part
j1nentS She makes an offort In her work
i to arouse the creative faculty IN 81 neri
pupils anu not to make mere cop y!sts OF
them. She Us the first to teach water as
coors IN the public schools 9 Nd np ss
aroused great entl,u slasm pys her nesnoa
of " touching artistic effects b ~ Color
work. ~ Mrs. read q oes sS not Il SELL any
books nor Is sill e n agent for an y system,
but teachesS art for art s sake and strives
forSthoB uplift5of DSouthern8a art. She has
been & In the 4 best studios and 8 has 4 eyer
sought to d find 6the3s link between that
work ard the Industrial drawing Of the the
6puDllc& SCnOOl 9ti S9
n I,rof. j. a.. B urruss cont nued his course
intIhis lecture on the +" NJ odernt Currlcu--
$iun as Contrasted wv til the Old Educa
5tion.,$ss The III old educat ton. he said.
s.aimcd Ito. train for the future ana NOT
for present ia terests, capacl les and needs
OF the children. The child mind was y
considered II tt: n be y q sort of reservoir
said The, IiSinto which information Of oil
sorts and habits OF all kinds, were to be
stored fSr use 1T. some future time, and
the mora 8irksome and most Immediately
&ur,interestng the tasks OF 81 the school
wero. the greater B value they were I con-
ssidered to HAYES The modern educ ton
cha nEes the Sgpoin of View en- t1relyS ana
demands Y that the work a Of he n school
be ad apted to the present nc eds q me
child. rather than to the SUPP osed ~
tire needs Of adults. Consequ entl the
modern course OF study IN lud esJ my !ce e
biographical and; descrip I've ma terra terialA ln
history IN experiment tai Work IN nature nature
study, %out-of- door excursions. n r 1l1rls
activities, songs BIZ h, poems SS and ga mes,
These things are not 'fads and - q. tins
thew are reall the essentials Of the
school work, for they bring the Is emo tlll
into closer relation with fe.t and tney3
have come that tho child may have IRE.
and 3 that he may have It more r abu IN;
dainty" "a +, s !, g, A
Normal school who Is now oneao 81 the
INSTRUCTORS, at the School OF Methods ln
3Charlottesville. will lecture TO the teacil-
ers Friday evening Of 10 8 cto D, " "
cart In Everyday 5Li ne.
arT0cE AP1svHS ATuRDAYi..s{