The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-20
TEACHERS INSTITUTE WAS Al
GRAND SUCCESS
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Dag Tor their butternuts. No one
can read paragraph of a beautiful
sunset and thrill over 1t unless he
has seen one in nature and learned
to thrill over that. A mother who
takes her child to the window and
points out to it the moon and says,
See the beautiful moon" is doing
more than she realizes for the world
of literature. Do not teach periods,
commas and other punctuation
marks in reading. They have no eff
feet whatever on the voice and are
merely placed there to mark the
parts and ends of sentences. 1t is
good practice for the children to
speak pieces, for a recitation well
committed and given will raise the
standard of reading.
Thursday Afternoon.
The afternoon session was opened
with number of selections by Jen-
kins' Boy Band who were seated on
the platform. They presented
fine appearance and their music was
thoroughly enjoyed by the large au-
dience.
Singing.
Supt. Koehler then introduced the
teachers to their best friends, the
StuOOl directors, WHO were assembled
in body, and he also introduced the
school directors to their most faith
full servants-the teachers. He then
presented Prof Warren to the direc-
tors.
Prof Warren occupied the first
period. He said of Supt Koehler's
speech OF Introduction: That's the
best short speech l ever heard" He
highly commended the Boys Band
and wished that he had such a place
for his boy-as a means of making
life worth the living. Prof. Warren
/ divided his talk into two parts, say
ing that neither part had any rela-
tion to the other. He spoke first of
the unjust criticisms given the
schools of to-day. Why do so many
of the older people say that the
schools of so years ago are better
than those of today? The reason
| is that they do not remember the i'm
perfections of those schools The
things that looked wonderful to
them as children have been retained
in their minds colored up with those
first Impressions. Some time ago,
in an attic in Springfield, Mass, were
found a set of examination papers
prepared by pupils of fifty years ago.
| The papers were brought forth and
the questions were given as a test to
the pupils of Springfield. What was
the result? The Springfield pupils
did 33 per cent. better with that ex-
animation, for which they had had
no preparation, than did the pupils
of so years ago who had been
drilled for it,. The same test was
made in other cities and the results
oil IN 80 Oh, &C
| to-day, which proves that the schools
of to-day are infinitely better than
those of fifty years ago.
The second part of Prof. Warren's S
! talk was on The Ideal Teacher"
If an artist were to paint a picture
of a beautiful face he would think
of all the beautiful faces he knew
| and would take what was most at
| tractive from each and, blending
these qualities of beauty, would put
| tiful face. Prof. Parren, in paint
ing his word picture of THE Ideal
Teacher" described in his charming
and touching way number of teach
ers whom he would put into that
picture-teachers who had Impress
ed him by certain fine qualities
which they possessed. The first
! had a sympathetic heart. The next
| had grip upon good literature and
! had planted the love for 1t in his
! heart. One knew how to punish a
boy wisely; another knew when he
| had punished unjustly and was will
| ing to acknowledge it. Another
could forget what had happened in
| the past. But the greatest of all
was the teacher who made the boys
and girls feel that there was some
thing beyond the textbook. She
inspired her pupils with the posi-
! bilities of the future.
Prof. Watkins delighted the audi
ence with a solo and rendered an
other in response to an enthusiastic
| encore.
A number of fine selections were
| given by the juvenile orchestra who
are to be commended for their ex-
cellent work.
Singing. The Star Spangled Ban
ner."
Supt. Tietrick gave a fine talk on
the important subject, MY Boys
Teacher" In his opening remarks
! Mr.. Tietrick said, What splendid
T things you are doing in Wayne
county. You are to be commended. !"
In speaking OF the literary contest,
he said: Il would put public speak
ing in the curriculum of every
school. He gave much praise to the
Boys band and the Juvenile or
chestra. Mr.. Tietrick asked those
! teachers who could make a shirt
waist that was fit to be worn to
raise their hands. Then he asked
for the raised hands Of those who
could harness and drive a horse and
also for the hands OF those who
could bake a loaf of bread-that
was fit to eat 1t is needless to say
that a large number of hands were
visible, because our Wayne county
teachers are very competent. The
speaker continued: 81 would want
teacher for my boy who knows
something about things outside OF
school. That's the only kind of a