The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-11-18
"LOST, STRAYED OR
?"--RUBBERS--
AT INSTITUTE
Prof. Mark Greasy, HawIey, the
Victim Of a Mysterious Disap.
pearance--Also Some Account
of Several Excellent Lectures

movements, is the control Of the
forces of society.
What are the forces that mani |
fest themselves in the school?
GRAVITATION is one. Some teach
ers are so obedient to it that they
always want to sit down. ACTIV-
ITY is the fundamental force that
manifests itself in the school. All
development depends upon activity,
You can't educate dead child.
What leads a child to act? The
muscular energy of the child.
THE Greatest Word in Educa-
tion," is my subject. l am going to
deliver two lectures in the short
space of three-quarters of an hour.
If the period were shorter your pleas
ure would be greater. The art of
education bears some resemblance
to any occupation you can mention.
There must be some characteristic
common to all arts, which gives them
resemblance.
I'VE may learn from the practice
of them how we may practice our
own. What is this common charac-
teristic of the arts. Take the me-
chanical arts. A mechanic is called
on to take charge of an industrial
plant. He goes into the place with
a knowledge that the place is oper-
ated by some particular kind of
force, whether steam, electricity or
water. He knows something of the
force, else he couldn't take the posi-
tion. Every bit of machinery is
| simply a device to control the force
running the plant
Politicians must agitate before
people will vote. People act in ac-
cordance with their feelings, not
with their intellects.
"A revivalist must arouse the emo
tions of the people before he can get
them to do what he wants them to
do. -,--.
THE fundamental characteristic
of art is the control of a natural
force. Farming is an art. Go out
on the farm. Observe the farmer at
work. He goes out into the fields,
/ takes seed which he supposes is
alive, puts it into the ground. He
changes its position and surround
ings. He waits awhile. The seed
terminates; begins to grow He
! goes out and cultivates that plant.
! He changes the particles of earth
about it; pulls the weeds out; i'm
| proves the conditions of the plant.
! Working with the life force is the
| essential nature of his work.
He may want to irrigate one of
/ the fields, if he is an intelligent
| farmer. He will look up a reser-
voir, stream or pond above the level
| of the field. He has to know some
thing. He digs a ditch, perhaps be-
ginning at the field. He knows of
the great natural force of gravita-
ton. He is going to make that
force do his work. He has been
trying to control the great natural
force we call gravitation; as it af-
fects that great body of water;
guiding natural force.
Desire is another factor. You
came to institute this morning be-
cause some one else came, because
you didn't want to lose the COM
pensation. 1t was voluntary ac-
tion. A little girl didn't want to
go to bed. "Mommer," she said,
Il won't go to bed till l get ready"
i. Mommer spanked her, and put her to
!. bed. AS she was fixing the covers
over her, the mother said to her,
You got ready to go, didn't you?"
NO" whimpered the little girl, II
got ready before l thought / would"
J You won't get attention in the
school room by saying Stop that.
want your attention. / am not
: going to proceed without your at
, tention" BY so doing you distract
the attention of everybody Get the
= attitude of attention. Arouse the
interest of the children in what you
are about to do, and you won't have
to say a word about attention.
/ iG
. You'd better go to the Almighty fol-
? your brains than to come to US
A teachers to get your brains stored
= The character of the brain structure
: is biological matter with which We
have nothing to do. Memory car
a be cultivated by building up an as
3 soeiation OF ideas.
e INTEREST is THE GREATEST
n WORD IN EDUCATION. A chilC
may be educated into perdition by |
: teacher who is not acquainted will
: this fundamental force, because
a every problem of the school is a
: bottom a problem of interest.
81 have heard of fellows who for
: got the hour they were to be mar
! ried. There are lots of fellows VIII,
e haven't said anything about it, VIII,
7. feel the same way about it. You re
= member certain statements in whicl
h you are interested with ease.
r I'VE develop the will because
i leads to action. AS a man thinket
o in his heart so is he.
Don't worry about discipline
C You are afraid you won't be abb
q to control the boys and girls.
2. you say to them I'm the teacher
l. I'm elected by the community.
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