The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-04-09

The Marion County School Teachers
educational Association held its reg
ular monthly meeting today in the
court room. In the absence OF Presl-
dent Henry Richards. Prof. J. III. Work
man of the Ocala school was placed in
the chair.
Miss Corinne williams. one of the
excellent teachers in the primary de-
partment of the Ocala school, read
very fine paper on STORY Telling to
the Children" and illustrated 1T with
several touching stories. There was
only one trouble with Miss Williams
paper She read too rapidly; SO much
SO, 1t was difficult to hear all the good
and delightful things she had to say.
Prof Frank III. Ellis. principal of the
Dunnellon school, made very sugges-
tive talk on how to make rapid cal
culators Of pupils. OF course the sub
ject was arithmetic. but the methods
he employed in schools was more SIM
pie and concise and did not cumber
and confuse the pupil with columns of
figures in the various divisions and
rules to do the work. The first essen
tial was to teach child to think rap
idly, to think correctly. In doing this
a child must be lifted out of the lazy
inert habit that too many children
have in the school room and their
careless way of expressing themselves
and their position of body. This method
was splendidly and convincingly il
Illustrated on the black board. He said
most children leave school between the
sixth and 10th grades never to return
and il was Of prime Importance to
train the boy and girl to be apt and
efficient in figures, but did not say
arithmetic was the most important
study Prof. Ellis was listened to with
pleasure and profit.
Prof Workman vacated the chair
and called Prof. Crimson, who made
some very interesting and impressive
remarks on how to build up true ed
ucational association; that it lay large
ly with the teacher. yet knew the Sc
rious disabilities that lay in their way
He spoke of the greatest impeachment
to attendance was distance from the
county seat and financial disability
which expression created much merri-
ment. The superintendent spoke from
years of experience. But all the same
Marion county was going to have q
live educational association and teach
ers that would attend, and from Mar
ion county and elsewhere
He then introduced Prof. John A
Thraxton, of the University of Florida
Gainesville, and head of the norma
department of the university The
professor said he was not much of
platform speaker; his style was to ge
at the individual and have heart t.
heart talks, and he sure had one thi
morning with the teachers present.
on Individuality"
He said he had no new message t.
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the child and he certainly did. H
came down the ages to show how w
|. were the creatures of custom an
Z habit. How for ages others spoke fo
us. Said Pericles plead for the Athen
ians; that the crusaders was the frs
: awakening That Luther thundere
for the release of conscience and in
dividual thought. He said the worl
would have been a hundred years i
advance Of the present time If tn
church had not found Roger Bacor
That we would be flying today instea
of walking but for that fact Will
all admitted that the Frenchman Ros
sen was a vagabond, he had done NOR
for Individual thought and action thai
any one who had ever lived and taught
Spoke Of the great child educator:
Pretzelogo and Frobel How the lat
ter mad not looked into a DOCK IN 8
years but into and through nature an
instilled the individual spirits in tn
child and it has born fruit. He sal
the study of the history of education
was the most helpful thing a teache
could study. He gave a whack at tn
cramped curriculum of the schoo
Twice what they should be, becaus
hal fthe pupils studied would never b
of use to them in their life's work.
The professor certainly made an in
teresting, suggestive and instructiv
address. 1t was unique and a prodde
with a sensation and all of his au
dience satup and took note and smil
ed delight at times at the quaint illus
trations.