The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-21
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wealth for educational purposes
than Pennsylvania. According to
| the Carnegie Educational Investiga-
tion committee, permanent fund
might be provided by revenue from
forest lands and water rights and
from escheated estates.
E. Howard Griggs, of New York,
whose subject was The Influence of
the Parent and the Teacher on Moral
Education" emphasized the fact that
sharpening the mind without train
ing the morals is dangerous
course. He maintained that moral
training is to be taught by teach
ing the individual rather than by
taking mixed classes from all kinds
! of homes. The teacher, to do this
individual work, must not be over
crowded with regular routine work.
The parent is first responsible, of
course, but if the parent shirk duty,
for the sake of the state, the teacher
must assume the burden. DR..
Griggs made a strong plea for a
closer relationship between the
teacher and the child, the parent and
the child, SO that mutual confidence
may inspire aightforWardness
This relationship will make it a
somewhat simpler matter for the par
ent especially to deal with such
problems as sex hygiene.
DR.. Halleck, of Louisville, KY,
lectured at the Thursday night ses-
sion on THE Adolescent." DR.. Hal
leck is principal of the Louisville
Boys High school and his lecture
was a recital of experiences in high
school work. Every boy in his high
school has given him a card on
which is printed Code of Ethics
containing such statements as the
following: (1) You must keep run
ming to stay where you are and
must run mighty hard to get ahead;
CD Boys High school expects every
boy to do at least twice as well as
other boys along all lines; CD A
Boys High school boy is expected
to be SQUARE,; (4) Boys High
school boys own themselves. Dr.
Halleck's school raised thirty thous-
and dollars by giving entertain
ments; and with thirty thousand CIV
en- by the school board, purchased a
site for an athletic building and play
grounds. The adolescent period of
life is the most wonderful period and
in it can be done wonderful things
as we may see from the history of
the Elizabethan or Adolescent Per-
iod.
Principal Irvine, of Butler, Pa,
advocated a schedule for study as
well as schedule for recitation. He
! recommended that ninety minutes be
given to Algebra, ninety minutes to
Latin, forty minutes to English,
forty minutes to Elementary Science
in the study schedule of the first year
high school pupils. Principal Irvine
also stated that forty-seven out of
fifty important high schools of Penn
sylVania require four subjects per
pupil instead of five. Honesdale
has been doing this for ten years.
The educational council, composed
of about thirty leading educators Sc
lected from all departments, report
ed some extensive and intensive in
vestigations, which they have been
making. Among other things they
advised that the following be elm
mated from textbooks: Cd Questions
in Elemental Arithmetic that have
no bearing on the practical side of
life. (2) Obsolete forms of gram
in Literature that confuse instead of
interest pupils in the works of best
authors. This report will soon be
published in full.
Prof. Surface of the State Agri-
culture Department suggested that
teachers interest pupils in insects,
pests, plants, etc, and submit speci-
mems to the Department for classifi-
cation. Remember the department is
for the people to use, DR.. Herrick,
president of Gerard College, Suggest
ed that bankers, merchants, manu-
facturers and the people outside of
school be brought to the school to
tell about their respective lines of
work. Teachers ought to take pu-
pulls to see in actual operation mills,
courts, banks, newspapers, etc.
Miss Mae Black, of Wilkes-Barre,
gave an illustrated talk on the Mon
terri method of teaching. She had
on exhibition a complete set of mod
els. This system has accomplished
wonderful results wherever used.
State Supt. Schaeffer closed the
Association with an inspiring address
containing many thoughts of bene-
, fit to teachers. He expressed the
hope that the present Legislature
will place Pennsylvania with the
along educational lines by providing
for a teachers retirement fund.
The following Wayne county teach
ers attended the association: H. A.
= Oday and r. T. Davies of Honesdale,
, and Howard Sipe, of Gouldsboro.
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