The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-11-29
TEACHERS ARE
PUPILS AGAIN
Ins,ructors Gather at Annual In.
stitute and Listen to Speakers
Of Statewide Note


If a most successful three-days' in
stitute of Benton and Franklin
counties, held in Kennewick. The
institute was in charge of the Coun-
ty superintendents Of Schools, Wata
!. Jones and J. K. Busch, and the
instructors included many of the
hest known and most popular in
stitute workers from the various in
stitutions of higher learning in the
state. Prof. Lull being present from
the University, Professor Cleveland
from the State College, Miss Mont
gomery from the Bellingham Nor
NAL School, Professor Craig from
the Cheney Normal School, and w.
E. Moore, supervisor of writing in
the Everett schools. The state de-
partment of education was repre-
sented by Mr.. Layhue, Assistant
Superintendent Of Public Instruc-
ton.
The institute was addressed OH
Monday by Professor Lull, on the
subject of the Doctrine of the Use
full" the speaker taking the posi-
ton that there should be a note of
warning sounded against those who
attempt to set the practical over
against the cultural, there being, in
his view, no sharp dividing line be-
tween a practical education and a
cultural education. In the after
noon Mr.. Cleveland spoke on The
Teachers Opportunity for Advance
ment and Development His talk
showed that, in his estimation, there
are certain tendencies in the teach
ing profession that must be count
eracted, the work tending to make
the teacher critical, sensitive to
criticism, and didactic. The fail
ures of teaching were, in the main,
ascribed to lack of academic prepar-
alton and lack of teaching skill.
Mr.. Cleveland said, in the course of
his remarks: THE function of the
teacher is twofold: he or she must
first of all be leader, an inspirer
Of youth and a guide to proper de-
velopment, and secondly, an in
structor, a teacher in the narrower
meaning of the word. To be sue
cessful leader of youth one must
know men and affairs, something
Of business and of the life of the
world into which the youth is to
enter. These qualities are conspicu
ously lacking in the majority of
teachers" /" The speaker suggested
as a broadening agency, that the
teacher take and read one good daily
paper and the local papers, a good
teachers journal and one or two
good reviews of current questions,
and that few minutes be given
each day to the reading of good
books.
Tuesday Mr.. Craig addressed the
institute upon the teachers posi-
bllities and duties in Social Center
work, saying that the school house
had too long been used as merely a
place for the teacher and children
and not as gathering place for the
people of the community. The op
portunity of the rural teacher in
creating an active interest in work
destined to make the school the
center Of pleasant and useful as
soclatlon together of the people of
the whole community, was especial
" applauded by the teachers. Miss
Montgomery lectured in the after
noon upon The English Schools
ana related many of her experiences
while visiting those schools. The
English Schools" she said, are
much superior to ours in the matter
OF dlsclplining children, American
children being unusually poorly
governed; but are much inferior to
american schools in equipment, due
70 the general practice of sending
only the poorer children who can
not afford private schools, to the
public schools"
MIR. Lull lectured on Horace
Mann, Wednesday, by paying trib-
uie to his high attainments as an
educator and the originator of many
ol the best features of our public
school system, and Mr.. Cleveland
spoke upon Some Practical APP
plcations of the Laws of Hab !"
Entertainment for the institute
was provided by the Gray Concert
CCompany Monday evening and Ross
Ifane, the cartoonist and clay mod
.ier, tuesday. Tuesday evening
.ue ladies' of the Literary Club and
.Ae commercial Club rendered the
tseachers reception. Special music
'of The Institute was provided by