Bisbee daily review., 1911-10-06
STUDY OF LANGUAGE
 IN HE SCHOOLS
Chief Subject of Yesterdays
 Discussion in the Institute
HOW IT IS BEST TAUGHT

The general subject for discussion at yesterday mornings session of the Cochise county teachers institue was Language and English what to teach and how to teach it. The dis cussion was opened by Miss Laura Schlatterer, who discussed the topic from the standpoint of the iirst and second grades. Describing language as an art, she illustrated the sub iects in the minds natural way or learning them. She forci5ly expressed the thought that the child gets Its early language by imitation.
 stories are the joy of the child. she said, "and they cause him to Tor get himself for the time. Therefore he should be taught to see the real things in such stories as The Three Bears" and Red Riding Hood" ana in order to make these stories inter estng we must make ourselves a part of the work. Sometimes the story should be presented in the form or 8 play. The child is inventive and manifests it in the expressions thai he or she uses.
 In discussing the lecture of the subject, How. Miss Faust. of Giee- son. said: English, the power, of the mother tongue is aroused in the thought of the child from the objects and attributes and relations. Thought and feeling must be developed in the learner. The social life cf the child, too. is improved as he Is brought m touch with nature work in English Stress must be laid on the expression in letter writing and compos itioh That is. it is very necessary that the child be able to interpret short sen tenses and reproduce the idea. Then the pupil is able to attain memory gems, the foundation of literature.
 Miss Ethel Armitage, of Benson, m her discussion of the topic, said "0ral. written and blackboard wori are means of getting a class to iearf hv doing. In this way the pupil ae allires the habit of using good Ian euage by having his mind engrosseA with the object or picture of thOush and not with his attention on tn' language. The best objects are those that may be brought from the chic ! horae. From these objects the mint will he called upon to deal with par ticular objects and to express lt ideas and thoughts at various tune in life. Thus, every lesson can b made a language lesson which is th' hest work that is being done.
 Principal J. W. Henderson, of Glee son read a paper on "What Shoul' be rmahasized in Teaching Gran margn He strongly advocated the pupils should be shown the heed Q grammar, and illustrated this poin with the story of boy who was SUI len in his English lessons but atteni i've in arithmetic, who failed to soiY > s nrobfern because he misread 1t. Fl advocated the giving of especial al tention to the English language, an said that the parts of speech shout he early introduced into the cours of studv. He also advised that tn fext book be regarded es an al rather than the end of attainment.
 Miss Mary F.. Williamson, of NacC contributed a paper entitled, Sha We Require Pupils to Memorize Def ustions and Rules in Grammar which she answered by saving ths they should te memorized, not nece' sariiy the arbitrary rules and detn tions of the book, however. If th pupils and teacher can give bette definition or devise a better form fo the rule, it should be done. She f Vored the memorizing of rules for tn additional reason that it cultivate memory.
 Miss Helen Axtell, of Tombston read an excellent paper on The In poTtance of Early Training in Expre sion" She attributed much of tn incorrect language among children si fhe child's early environment and fbe careless manner of expressio that exists among educated peopl She said that the aim of a teachs should be to improve the less brig