Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-29
DANCE LIKE GREEKS,
NOT KANGAROO, SAYS
PROFESSOR TROOP
Teachers Are Rebuked for
Whispering at Meetings of
Montgomery County Insti-
tute.

NoRRISToWN, Oct. 29.-County Super
intendent Landis from the platform of the
Opera House today rebuked teachers who
insisted upon whispering to one another
all though the session of the Montgomery
County Teachers Institute, not only los
ing what the lecturers were saying, but
interfering with others who wanted to
hear.
He said that teacher had come to him
and complained that she could not hear
what was said through the talking of
other teachers around her. The County
Superintendent said that IL this occurred
again during the sessions, the person
annoyed should stand up SO that he
could locate the trouble and he would
see that IL did not happen again.
1.-THE Greeks danced POLITICALLY and not
like kangaroos, as we dance in America
today" declared Professor Troop, of
Toronto, In a lecture before the high
school section on 1.-THE Study Of Poetry"
In determining the difference between
poetry and prose, he said that there was
a mechanical difference and that real
poetry was something that could not be
expressed In prose form. The poem
should be read in school, he said but,
like love, IL should not be analysed. He
said that a Harvard student, when asked
the difference between poetry and prose,
had said that prose is the throwing of
words together to get good sense poetry
is putting together of words In metric
form"
Another subject discussed in the high
school section was TESTS in Efficiency"
by S. e. Downs, superintendent of the
Lower Merton schools who said that
the only thing to do with an inefficient
teacher. when she proved incompetent,
was to recommend her dismissal
To illustrate her talk on Motion
Songs and Drills" Miss Laura Staley, a
teacher in the Lower Merton schools, in
troduced a score of children brought
from the Lower Merton primary grade
and had them do a motion song. This
was feature of the first and second
primary section.
In addressing the rural school section,
Clarence Cooper, of Baltimore said
You may think l am strong follower |
OF Roosevelt. We all have to take our
hats Off to Roosevelt however. for his |
idea in the Progressive platform OF So |
cial and industrial Justice Vital topics |
like this should come into our history. |
If history is only to be a record of wars |
II should be thrown out of the schools. |
The social and industrial sides are most |
important. All that is necessary I'm the
rural school is United States history with
European background. Nature study
is not to be seriously considered
THE day is coming when the teacher
must be craftsman. Common knowl-
edge should be the fundamentals, and
local conditions should govern the ac-
cessory subjects. The farmers child
should be taught arithmetic; not the kind
which makes bookkeepers, but the kind |
that will flt him to solve a real prob
lem. The needs of particular com
munity should be learned and made ac-
cessory subjects"
Others who took part in the discussions
in the various sections of the divided in
stitute this morning were William II.
Brown, Lower Providence; Miss Mary
Adair, Lower Merton; Professor Worst,
Chicago; Mary V. Kane, Bridgeport A.
Z. Gehman, Norristown.