Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-30
INSTITUTE WAS
SUCCESSFUL
MANY INSTRUCTIVE ADDRESSES
GIVEN.
The SESSIONS CLOSED FRIDAY
DIR. Winship, State Superintendent
Alderman, President Ackerman of
Monmouth Normal and Professor
Rebec of u. of o. Give Talks.

The joint institute of Jackson and
Josephine counties closed Friday af-
ternoon after very successful ses-
sion. Tired out, but feeling that
they have learned much that will help
them in their school work, the 300
teachers have gone back to their
posts of duty. The lectures of DR..
Winship have been an especial fea-
ture. DR.. Winship is one of the most
progressive educators of the day and
his influence will be felt in the
schools of southern Oregon. In his
Thursday morning address DR.. Win
ship declared that to work for edu-
cational progress the teacher must
stop domineering the students and
must begin to dominate their lives.
The teacher superintendent or teach
er should do absolutely nothing TO
show his authority, but he should
try to mold the child's ideals and
shape his life in every possible way.
The teacher must, moreover, stop
wasting time on trifles; he must
teach the vital things.
In his popular lecture, Getting
Into the Came" DR.. Winship COM
the most out of it we must learn to
be good losers. There are games of
chance and games of skill, but even
in the games OF skill luck enters in.
Luck usually, however, breaks with
the man who is already successful
If a person, therefore, depends upon
his skill he can also be sure that
luck will favor him. in the conclud-
m HI IN, hn
educational value of out-of-school
life. Oregon, he says, is the only
state which is attempting to give
credit for work done in the home or
elsewhere out of school. Superin-
tendent Alderman indeed, would not
be able to introduce such a radical
plan in the conservative east. We
are just beginning to learn that there
are things outside the school, vital
things which have not got into the
curriculum but which are going to
get in. Dr.. Winship further told of
the great work that the schools have
done in showing that corn can be
raised in the south, as a result of
which the south threatens to rival
the so-called corngrowing section in
the raising of corn.
Superintendent Alderman, in one
of his characteristically jolly, prac-
tical talks, presented his plan on
School Credit for Home Work.
The school and the home should CO.
operate, he said, but the basis of
their cooperation should not be deci-
NAL fractions, but boys and girls. 1t
rs the teachers business to establish
habits which will lead to effective
ness. Mr.. Alderman gave out charts
tabulating the points upon which he
would judge the children, such as
posture, state of health, industry and
neatness, elements of leadership and
self-control, ability to form judg-
ments, altruism, home industrial
work, and scholarship. The teacher
should also seek to discover for what
calling the pupil is especially fitted
President Ackerman OF the Mon
mouth Normal School told the teach
ers that, while great changes would
come in educational methods, yet
there were certain things which they
could do while waiting for the big
things. They can teach the child
that to succeed he must know his bus
mess from the ground up. He must
be absolutely efficient, and to be ef-
ficient must have ability, Judgment,
physical and moral courage, and en-
thusiasm. He must also have conf
dence, energy, initiative, experience,
knowledge of human nature, and an
infinite capacity for taking pains in
small matters. These qualities the
teacher must impart not by preach
ing but by example and practice.
Social Efficiency" was the theme
of DR.. Rebec, representing the Uni
versity of Oregon, on Thursday at
11:10. DR.. Rebec declared that it
is the teachers business to connect
herself with the progressive move
ments of the day, to work for con-
servation, the square deal, efficiency,
and the new democracy. The nine
teenth century was the age of liberia
ation the twentieth has not lost that
ideal, but it has learned that the
square deal is not secured by giving
man an equal chance. 1t is mock
cry to man set loose in an unequal
field of competition. The school,
says DR.. Rebec, must look after the
physical, social and moral welfare of
the students. Education is effect
iveness unto life, but life, as life
really is, not an ideal life" What
ever organizes men, whether in or
out of school, is education. The
school, therefore, should be the So
cial and intellectual center of the
community.
DR.. ]. j. Emmons of Medford gave
very practical talk on 'The Sys-
tematic Examination for Defects oi
the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat" The
department meetings also were very
helpful Superintendent Greenleat
LED very spirited discussion OF
manual training and industrial work
in the high school section. In the
same section Principal Moore led the
discussion on the relation of the
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