Bisbee daily review., 1907-11-24
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:, time. The report will contain the fol lowings facts: The name Of school
 when organized. first teacher. present superintendent, list of teachers, spe- clai teachers employed, teachers sal - -. A.-. = ..l-sia-.e-e- s.. ss.ea .sis4rinf
 humber of children enrolled. and other points which may be deemed of ia-
 terest to the superintendents of the
 territory.
 The leading feature of Wednesday
 was lecture delivered by pr. Can
 non, of the Carnegie Institute, of Washington, D. C., who at present is 1 connected with the Desert Laboratory
 of Tucson. His subject. Recent Theories in Organic Evolution was
 handled from Q scientific standpoint. He brought forth many novel and uni | que features to substantiate h1s theor- i ies. To prove the survival of the l Attest. or we get what we need from our surroundings. lie JoOK SSO piaiISs growing side by side in the desert, | each deriving it's nurishment from mother earth. On the one hand the roots and rootiets are spread out as | . net scarcely hidden beneath the surface. while the other sends its roots deep down into the earth, seek ing for moisture and food, evolving 1 from the soil what is needed for sus- tenance, and perpetuation Of the
 species. By far the attraction Of the
 association was Professor Hall, Of Illinois. employed by the state board of asrfculture of Illinois as instructor
 ginning his lecture he asked that the
 teachers who were college, or normal
 graduates. to stand, and when 90 per cent of the audience arose to tnelr feet. Professor Hall was amazed He promised the teachers that he would
 tell the farmers of Illinois about this great association in Arizona
 Making this statement, that he had
 for twenty-five years been lecturing be- fore teachers associations and had
 never before addressed an audience
 where the per cent of graduates was so large as this.
 Prefessor Hall made three addresses before the institute. First, Avoid anee of Waste in Teaching Arith- metic." Second. Education As Re lated to Useful Activity" Thiru,
 Grade Work"
 Tn teaching arithmetic he set forth l that we must keep within the scope | of inc pupils knowledge. It is a | va ste os time to keep pupils dealing with the sensible representatives Of i numbers when they are familiar with l the numbers themselves. 4 simple | numerical process may be made dif- fcult to child by an elaborate ob- ieetive illustration. All new con cepts and all initial steps in new pro cesses should be taught collectively. The essential thing is the wise selec- ton and grading of the inductive ex- amples, and training in oral solutions. Do not teach above the heads Of your pupils. When you find you are above, lower your standard. Professor Hall insists, that after forty years expers ence in school work, he is ready to ! assert that better work Is being done now than ever before, that the so- called fads are in reality of greater | value to the pupil than is generally supposed; that the three R's are not being neglected as proven by the fact that recently examinations were given using questions given years since. at AndoyeT, Mass. was found a set of examination papers which had been lsed fifty years ago. They were given o grade of the same age and stand ng, and the result was that the pu- 'ils of the present generation gave