Arizona republican., 1913-11-07

Dr. A E. Winship
 The first address of the morning was delivered by Dr. R. H. H. Blome' Eresident of the Flagstaff normal school pr. Blome said that what confronts the teaching profession to- day is selecting and arranging the material Much time is wasted In teaching irrelevant subjects lie pointed out to. the audience that the real problem was preparing school work so that the child shall live in his element as a child should and would live if he were free from the restraint of school. Using the speak CTS own words: The material of instruction should feed him or should soothe him as the food that he eats. Herbert Spencer said that a child's schooIwork shall be intrinsically grateful The business of the teacher today is to take the child's environ ment and make it educational to hin and that is what Spencer meant by intrinsicalIy grateful Instead of teaching geography about Egypt, the Sahara Desert, the Nile, why not teach about the Arizona desert, the Salt river and the Grand Canyon? Instead of teaching the schoOlbOy of Arizona about the pilgrim fathers, why not familiarize pupils with the heroic lives of the early pioneers of Arizona? This would be taking the environment of the child of Arizona and making it educational
 Dr. Winship's subject was The Personal Element" Personality is the only thing that is eternal he of ho nd present braced up and vibrated per sonality Tt is sweeter than honey and the honeycomb, and more effect i've than the raiment of the lily, is personality" Dr. Winship called upon the teachers to exert the influence of their culture and refinement upon their charges for that will be like unto the gentle rain that lures the hidden seed to grow, blossom and ripen.
 Dr. Winship continued, saying, Personality supplants everything else in power and permanency of influ- ence. Subjects, methods, philosophies are incidental. The two phases of personality developed and profusely illustrated were. dominate, not dom ineer, and think in larger circles"
 The difference between people is merely the size and units in which they think. If you happen to teach a fifth grade, don't have an idea that it is the only grade that the Lord ever ordained. If you are teaching one grade and can't have in mind the eight grades all the time, then you are thinking in small units. Cecil Rhodes, when he provided scholar ships for the boys of France, Ger many, Italy. England and America, thought in big units: he thought in nations.
 Dr. F. C. Wafde, of the Tempe normal. followed pr. Winship with a special plea for the Sierra Edu- cational News" Dr. Waide asked the teachers to support the Sierra Edu- cational News" because that maga- zine will help them to keep in touch with concurrent theories of teaching, because it will help influence neces- sary legislation and because it will record the progress made in educa- tion in Arizona Superintendent Scudder of the Glendale schools, spoke from the floor and endorsed the magazine. There is no better way to work as unit than to see what happens in the other parts of the state. The Sierra Educational News contains the news of the schools of Arizona"
 Dr. Chas. H. Reyes spoke on "The Basis of Educational Control" Dr. Reyes said he never knew a teach CT that failed because of a lack of scholarship, nor many that failed be- cause they lacked the technique of the profession, but the number of those who fell by the Wayside be- cause they were short on discipline was legion. "The old idea of a we'll disciplined school was a well-sup- pressed school Somebody was sit- ting on the lid all the time Repres- sion was the motto and the keynote of the latter day is expression. The new discipline rests on a new basis because we have changed our ideals. The best disciplinarian is the teacher | that has no problems of discipline to solve and still makes her own will come to pass because of her sym pathy with the impulses and activi- | ties of youth. We should learn the temptations and trials of children in order to be able sympathetically to | improve them"
 Mrs. Carrie Blaire Mckenzie gave | a reading entitled The Gauk's Err rand" It was a selection that gave Mrs. Mackenzie an opportunity to use Scotch dialect and interpret Scotch character. She did both Cleverly.
 Evening Session
 Though William Conrad Mills sang voluntarily three selections in sue cession. the vast assemblage in the high school auditorium kept on ap- plauding madly until the professor of vocal music of the Arizona School of Music responded with the dainty little ditty, "A Bowl of Roses" County Superintendent J. s. Higgins is to be congratulated for having obtained on