Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-06
SCHOOLS MARK us.
ASLAND Of PEACE
A. 7. Stuart Declares Teach
ers Are Factors in Freedom
From War.
STUDY OF THE CHILDREN
URGED BY DR.. R. w. EDISON
DR.. Henry Neumann Gives Address
on Moral Instruction Before
Teachers Institute.

That the American school and the
American teachers are the forcec which
have marked the United States as a
land of peace was asserted by Alexan-
der T. Stuart, director of intermediate
instruction. in a brief address today at
the second session of the Teachers In
stitute. in progress at the F. t Con-
gregational Church. Mr.. Stuart was
not one of the scheduled speakers. but
addressed the teachers at the request
of Supt. Ernest L. Thurston. His talk
was one of the features of the institute.
Things are going on across the
water that make teachers, make good
citizens and all Christians feel that
civilization and learning of no
avail he said. But it is you teachers
the teachers of Washin gton, the teach
ers of California, and the teachers at
the ends of the country who are bring
ing to pass the words of the prophet
when he said. The swords shall be
beaten into plowshares'
Mr.. Stuart, speaking of many changes
in education which had been proposed
by speakers at the institute, said he
often had difficulty in adapting him.
self to the progressive lines of thought.
Il have difficulty in adjusting myself
to these changing conditions, he said.
III
you are wrong Let me say to you at
the end of career. rather than at the
beginning. that I have faith in the fu-
ture. These changes are not temper
airy; they are permanent.
Urges Study of Children.
Taking the subject. IF 1 Were Again
q Glass Teacher DR.. Andrew w. Ed
son. associate superintendent of schools
Tf oif 10 rod hn a
take little time from the subjects
which he was to teach and study the
children under him.
Il would know my boys and girls as
boys and girls. not as grammarians or
arithmeticianS, he said. Teachers
should keep records of their children,
showing both mental and physical con-
ditions: These should be passed on
with the child to the teacher above.
Teachers should get in touch with
the homes. This often leads a parent
to become interested in the school and
school work. teacher should know in
what out-of-School activities the chill
dren are interested and whether they
do any constructive work at home.
They should know whether children
get good hours of sleep and if that
sleep is in the open air. Then We would
have fewer nervous children, with few
er headaches, and good blood would
tingle in their cheeks"
Or. Edison urged teachers to practice
self-control. while precept is valu-
able. the one thing above everything
else when you are dealing with children
Is to set such good example that the
child will want to be like the teachers"
Talks on Moral instruction.
To teach life itself through geography,
history. literature and other studies in
the school course was one of the points
emphasized by DIR. Henry Neumann of
the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Gull
ture. He advised against trying to
draw a moral out of every lesson taught
and against drawing morals by
hair"
DR.. Neumann's address was along
purely technical lines. his subject be-
ing, Moral Instruction Through the
Teaching of Literature" He cited
number of specific instances in the
teaching of literature where morals
might be drawn and cited cases where
efforts should not be made to bring
them out.
DIR. Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard
University and Principal Charles W.
Morey OF the Highland School. Lowell,
Mass, are to be the speakers this aft
ernoon. Their respective subjects are
to be Modern Methods of Teaching
History and Government at Various
Ages and Essentials OF Grade Arith-
metic"
Yesterday afternoon Prof Henry W.
Holmes of Harvard University spoke
Oh What Is Method" and Dr. Charles
School of Newton, Mass, gave an ad-
dress CD Oral English in Our Schools"
Stephen E. Kramer, the assistant SUI
perintendent. presided.