Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-07-10
PUPILS AFFECTED
BY Environment
HOME INFLUENCESARE SHOWN
IN SCHOOL
SUPERINTENDENT Stableton of Illinois
Says Parents May Greatly Assist
Teachers by Adopting
Proper Course

| OnllunOOu III It's WOISI anu 10
| lected phases was the study taken up
| more especially by the child study depart
ment of the National Educational as Tsil.
/ alton. and yesterday morning IN tne FITS FITS
Methodist church two able speeches were
made upon the needs of the children ana
the way to reach them. 80
| j. X. Stableton, superintendent. gr, on
schools, Bloomington, ILL., spoke on 'Ihe
| Delinquent and Dependent Child IN us
Home Environment as school Prop-
| lem" He brought out Tie points OF MS
discourse largely through interesting an
ecdotes, and gave examples of the appii,,
cation of the Illinois child LABOR law anu
the juvenile dependency and delinquency
laws. He said in part: -,
"a great deal of good can be done by
! the school authorities coming into close
working system with the associated chai
tiles, the parents clubs, the city pnysI-
cian the visiting nurse and the courts.
| The school is the center from which radi-
ates the influence or energy that calls
upon these other agencies to. assist IN
irving to make the best possible condl-
tons for the child, and the school officials
should know the home environment OF
every school child as far as possible 10
be able to treat them intelligently'
Parents have a right to their children,
but the state, through it's officers, has a
right to demand that the parents DO their
best by the children. In the superintendes
emit of schools is the organizing head or
all the available forces in the community
for the uplifting of the dependent and de-
inquent children, and where there is this
combined effort results can be secured
that would not be possible in any other
way" :,
Henry Suzzello, adjunct professor of ell
ementary education, Teachers college,
treatment of his subject, The Training
of the Child's Emotional Life" He has
good delivery and the important polnts
of his talk were brought out clearly ., ana
distinctly. His talk showed deep study
of the topic and knowledge only gained
through years of observation OF the hu-
man character and emotions. He SAID IN
Professor Suzzello's Address
1.-THE fundamental place of the feelings
in men of highly moral and efficient char-
acter, Devotion to great conceptions or
to their fellows a mark OF true soclai
greatness. Devotion to right or approved
IDEALS of conduct as opposed to wrong or
unsanctioned modes of behavior, the dis
tinction between good and bad men. De
ycton is essentially teeIing t or e nf cher.
acter. 1t is an instrument OF controi. II
may not give the direction of control;
Types Of weak personality the aG SitiTaan
talist,' the impulsivist. Classincatlon OF
literary character; Jekyll and Hyde, Raj
fles and Sherlock Holiness Classiiicatio ION
Benedict Arnold, Tweed and FOLK
THE impelling and invigoratilnge; o FORCE &c
of the emotions. They are stimulations $50 TO
scious plane by the life of feeling. The
male and the colorless and uninhuential
are the emotionless. The OPPOSITE , ex-
Proper action or expression. of human life
the product of a rich emotional life tenn
pered and controlled and directed by
wide intellectual training.
1.-THE difficulty of handling the feellngs
Their initiating and interpolatory rune
ton. Their mastery of the self when IN
consciousness. Defects in the emotional
life. a Over use as in envy and jealousy;
(2) under use as in sympathy and cour-
age; G) attachment OF emotlons 10 map
pTopriate ideas as nj ambition and pride
methods of inducing and inhibiting
emotions: (a) example and imita tions
coupled with reward and punishment; CD
undesirable feelings; (c) the recurrence of
bodily activities connected with ethically
effective and non-effective emotions.
1.-THE use of concrete situations from ron
history and personal experience, hypothe-
teal cases. The advantages and disad7
vantages of each. Treatment of cases In
instruction and in discipline OF. school.
The use of Judgment and action in fixing
feelings. History. civics and school dis.
cipline. as material. ;, The limitation of
tyres from literature
normal school. Chico. Cal. was to have
spoken on 1.-THE Relation of Child Study
to the Moral Training of the Child" but
he was not present.
lens followed the addresses. most OF the
arguments tending toward the facts that
more good would be accomplished II the
truant officers knew their business better
and had studied the child; that all most
children needed was sympathy and en-
couragement instead of hard words and
blows. and that there is no better way to
spend our money than in providing for
the unfortunate and helpless children.
Prof George L. Leslie. director of the
science department of the Los Angeles
schools. was in charge of the meeting and
he declared that the truancy problem Is
half of the school system.
Terman, president of the pedagogy de-
partment of the state normal school; DR..
q. II. Willisford. resident of the college
settlement and a truant officer of Lin
was formed. They will meet Thursday at
o'clock in the First M. E. church.