Evening journal., 1910-01-29
PEDACOCUES
In INSTITUTE
New Castle County School
Teachers dear Address
by Prof. Chew

More than eighty teachers were pres
ent this morning at the opening session
Of the local institute of the New Cas-
tie County Teachers Association, in
the Y. NJ. G. A. building.
superintendent A. r. Spaid, who pre-
sided, announced the second local insti-
tute TO be held at Middletown. Whether
IL will be held on tho last Saturday
in February or on the first Saturday in
March, will be voted upon this after
noon. The speaker at the Middletown
institute will be Professor Wagner, Of
the West Chester Normal School, and
at the third local institute, a month
later, will be Miss Pierce, of the train
ing school connected with the West
Chester Normal. who will talk on the
teaching OF reading. At th&efternoon
session to-day the matter of consolidat-
ing the two county Institutes OF Kent
and New Castle, and meeting at Dover
next year. will be settled.
The speaker Of to-day is Prof. Sam
uel L. Chew, superintendent Of District
No. 2, of Philadelphia. whose afternoon
address VIII be on Success in Teach
ing"
Preceding Prof Chews morning ad-
dress. three papers were read on Ma
ture Study i'm the Schools, by Miss
Mary Robinson, Miss jeanette Cam,
and Miss Frances Medill. Miss Min
ME Catterson, who also had a paper,
was unable TO be present Miss Robin
son spoke of the Mt Pleasant Nature
Club, which had field excursions, en-
tertainments TO train them in public
speaking. and to raise funds for school
room decoration; and which also car
ried flowers and comforts TO the shut
ins. Miss Cam said she had colored
plates of birds on the walls. and from
these the children had learned to
identify the neighborhood birds, and
to be kind TO them. and study their
habits. Plant study was taken up
similarly. Miss Medili confessed that
she had postponed a lesson on the
Animal and Vegetable Products Of
Madagascar TO let the class study a
worm and cocoon. Dull and defec-
tive children shone brightly when it
came to researches into nature around
them, she said. improvements in the
school yard had led to improvements
in home yards.
"The Literary Viewpoint of the
Teacher was tAe subject of Professor
faced it with an invitation to the
teachers to come to Philadelphia, where
they were needed and would get larger
salaries and an old age pension. He
said in part that the school room was
a miniature world. and that from books
which told the life Of humanity, the
teacher could find solutions OF her
problems Of discipline and teaching
..f fl,n
first reflected personal life, as in
Byron's works, the second gave the
ideas connected with community life,
an example Of this is Vergil'S Aeneid
which may be called a prophecy Of
Rome in contrast with the Had Of
Homer, which is the Encyclopedia
Britannica of the Greeks. The highest
type is found in Shakespeare. he said,
rejecting the universal life and appeal
ing to the heart of man. The boy
goes thorugh the stages of the race.
The speaker mentioned "Quo Vadis'
as an epoch-maldng book, said that
O. w. Holmes gave valuable lessons
on child training in elsie Venner" and
the Guardian Angel" LES Miser-
ables' had paved the way for free pub
lie schools in Europe. Don uixote," :"
greatest Of books, showed the sarcastic
method of discipline. Prose-poems
were Lorna Doone" and Mark Twain's
"Jeanne Dare" If there were more
OF the ideals of Lorna Doone in the
world. he said. there would be fewer
defective children growing up into de-
pendent adults. and no need for charity
societies, which are now confronted
with the need of putting a rosewood
polish on a pine plank.