The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-11-12
SCHOOL INSTITUTE
GREAT SUCCESS
Excellent Addresses by Prominent Ed
ucatOrs Injeets Much Interest and
Enthusiasm Into Meeting OF Lau-
rens County Teachers Association.

T.hIhUsluSlH lHtO ucetlHS Oh Ldu-
rens County Teachers Association.
With every school in the county eX-
cept five or six represented, the county
teachers institute held in the graded
school the latter part OF last week,
was very pleasant and profitable
meeting, the teachers probably car
many lessons which will prove bene-
ficial to their work. The addresses of
the different speakers on the program
We're Of the practical, timely order
and left deep impression upon the
hearers. With so many suggestions
along lines of advancement from such
authoritative sources, the meeting
could not have been other than inspir-
Ing The first session Of the institute
was held Thursday evening and at
noon Saturday adjournment was TAX
en-, preceded, however, by a short
meeting Of the county teachers asso-
citation.
The teachers institute was held un-
der the direction of the county depart
ment of education for the purpose of
drawing the teachers into closer touch
with each other and of affording tchm
an opportunity to hear the states ed
ucational specialists on subjects of
vital importance to the progress of the
schools. program, ornamcnted with
the names of the states leading cdu-
Gators, was provided, including ad-
dresses by w. Is. Tate, state supcrvi-
sor OF rural schools, w. III. Hand, state
high school inspector, j. A. Stoddard,
assistant state superintendent of edu-
cation, Miss Sadie Goggans, supervi-
sor Of rural schools for Newberry
county, Miss vii Lou Gray and Mr.
Geo. l.. Pitts, Supt. of Education j. E.
Swearingen was expected to be here
but was detained on account of other
business. Mr.. Hand was obliged to
leave a conference of educators in
Knoxville, Tenn, to be with the Lau-
rens teachers. After he arrived and
found such an unusualle large number
present he said that he felt amply re-
paid for leaving the larger meeting
This was noteworthy mceting of
teachers because of the very large
number present and the small num-
Der OF schools unrcprcscnted The
idea OF the county teachers institute
in an original one and doubtless will
be taken up by other counties. The
fact that so many of the schools were
represented was commented upon very
favorably by the visiting educators
and the wholesouled enthusiasm pre-
valent among the teachers made a
strong impression. Supt. Anderson, of
the Newberry schools, was present as
visitor and onlooker and went away
very much impressed with the pro-
gressive methods in the Laurens
county and city schools, stating that
he had been very much benefited by
his experience here.
The institute was opened with ses-
sion Thursday evening, when the
teachers and speakers were welcomed
by Supt. Jones, president of the coun-
ty teachers association. Prof. W. *
Tate made an address on the subject
'The County School of Tomorrow with
Pictures from Today" This was vc-
ry instructive and interesting talk en-
thusing the teachers with the desire
to have better fitted school buildings.
Thursday morning was given largely
over to the observation of class room
work done in the Laurcns graded
schools and this was followed by dis
cussion of the impressions received
there and of the application OF city
school methods to rural school work.
In the afternoon the teachers listened
to addresses by Miss Gray, Miss Cog
gans and Prof Tate under the gencr-
al topic of Some good Methods and
Some poor Methods of teaching we
have seen"
Friday night was featured by two
addresses, one by Mr.. Stoddard and
another by Mr.. Hand. Mr. Stoddard,
a Laurens county boy" evidenced
the pride which he felt in his county
by quoting some statistics showing
the phenominal strides that it had
made in the last few years along cdu-
cational lines, pointing out. however,
at the same time some things in which