The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-12-10
for food. On Venus the goddess


for food. On Venus the goddess
of love, no blood was ever shed,
aud only offerings of flowers and
perfumes were offered. The
question comes up, did they be-
lieve in gods aud goddesses; and
/ suppose they did, but as time
went on and man began to think
more for himself, there came the
age of doubt. The middle class
believed III to some extent and the
upper classes affected to believe
1t. Ii is the same way with the
great Greeks and Romans. It's
hard to believe that Caesar be-
lieved in the gods and yet he did.
We find Socrates openly express
ing his disbelief IN them. So
crates, Plato and Aristotle at
fected the belief In these gods,
vet 1t did not receive Its death
blow until somewhat later. A
great many of these myths might
be interesting but we need not go
on.
In addition to the address OF
DR.. Gordinier, addresses were
made by Prof. Holsopple and DR..
Deatrlck.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
The following ls part OF what
DR.. Deatrick SAID in an address
on the Second Stage IN Teach
ing to Read. "
"Enthuslasm begets enthusi-
asm" was used as the basis OF
this discussion. We teachers
should be very. very careful to
note that the child reproduces
exactly what we give to the child
Unless you have thought about
this, you will be surprised to find
that the child gets nothing but
absolute nonsense from what we
give him. We must be careful
when we introduce new words 10
hun. AS 1 SAID this morning,
there are two stages In teaching
to read.
In the first stage, the chic
! merely associates the symbol o.
: thought with the thought with
which he is already familiar. HI
l is shown the symbul on th'
: blackboard, and he Is taught tina
> that symbol is the same as th'
= symbol of the sound with whicl
he is perfectly familiar. Th
y child knows the spoken word; b
Z can pronounce it; he uses 1t il
. conversation or, at least, under
stands II when it Is spoken t
l. him but he does not know tha
those in convention in his rae
u have agreed upon that. Now, W
u come to the second stage whic
"a is practically this; 1t is not pc
slble for me to tell you when th
u child passes from the one stag
AZ to the other. The mind work
! with the brain; the brain move
As the muscles which are the organ
10 of the mind. Now we teacher
ID are not enough of mind reader
60 in that sense.
ir Sometimes just little qulv'
II, in the voice, sometimes a NOV
g. men IN the face, will indicate
~ observant teacher that the Chi
eh does not understand the wor'
w. which he uses. Then it is ne
ne essary to spend one or two week
oi If necessary, for him to mast
ne those words.
IS In the second stage, the child
en- taught to use new words of which p
nd viously he knew nothing either as
,ra their form or content. He comes up
!. words that were not known befo
-, either as 20 syllables or sounds or
@u meaning which they intend to
as forth. There are two kinds of aim
,he purpose always before the worker, q
nat what are these two kinds Of air
r. They are known as the ultimate aim
the immediate aim. Now, that tea
Ine er Is best who has the best knowled
be OF ultimate aims and who always
ted in view the ultimate purpose.
On Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm
nc So our immediate aim is to get the
pill to interpret, under the guidanc'
'ei' the teacher, what was previously
ms known as to the form and cont
and You must remember that these
vol stages are not separated by
ho4 they are somewhat like the shin
on a roof, they overlap"
uod NOTES.