South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-08-31
MUST CHOOSE GOOD
AMONG FADS IN
EDUCATION WORK
Or. Lincoln HUXLEY and Prof.
Charles Albert Address
Teachers in First Session of
County Institute Monday.

some fads are good. others bad"
said Dr. Lincoln HUXLEY, president Of
John g. Stetson university. who spoke
al the opening session Of the ST. JO-
seph county teachers institute Mon
day morning at the high school audi
torium "Fads in education" the
speaker continued "are Ike fads in
any other business"
For instance there was the learned
Englishman who came over 10 Amer
lea with a new memory fad. lie had
81 system whereby teachers might read
their lessons over once and be pre-
pared 20 20 10 the class room and
give IL 10 the children verbatim. Min
listers were 20 be able TO read their
sermons without the use Of notes, re-
lying solely upon the memory while
lawyers were TO be able TO deliver ar
guments without even consulting law
book. it came about that the noted
. educators began discussing this sys-
TEN, for which nve dollars was
{ charged TO learn its mysteries. It was
: discussed I'm the magazine. Then
= the psychologists went after the prop
osition They found that memory
could De based only upon the three
Z laws of the association Of ideas. that
H. similarity, contrast and iucOnsru-
: ~ Good Fad"
''It was at such a county institute
a. this that a. speaker was talking
{, about the famous painting, The An
gells. by M-Ilet lie said that this
= picture stood FOR taree things, work,
worship and love. He declared that
3 most people looked upon work as
! curse. that IL was the curse the
Lord that Adam and Eve wrrs iven
Z out of the Garden of Eden and -vrced
Z to work But ne said the curse was
not the work, but the fact that the
first inhabitants of this world were
driven from the Garden OF Eden The.
spires in the distance representing the
ringing Of the cathedral bells and the
toilers Of the field standing from their
work for a moment as the bells were
tOlling, represented devotion. Last
of all there was love. The picture
portrayed a man and a woman. Had
there been two men or two women
working in the fields the effect would
not have been the same. But there
was a man and n woman passing
through this world together repre-
senting the most beautiful of all beau
tiful things. love. Wen, after TINS
speaker had finished his talk. the
country teachers went TO the art shops
and bought reproductions of these
paintings and hung them up in the
country school houses. They taught
the meanings of the pictures 10 the
children. This was fad but an eN-
cellent one.
Then in Pennsylvania the geo-
women of the W. g. r.. II. decI, d
that the public school children should
know and should be taught the results
CT narcotics and stimulants. They
took il up TO the political parties
Neither wished to assume the reSpOn-
sibiIity. but finally made this issue,
that II tine people voted for n in
referendum. they would produce the
necessary legislation. out of this
grew physiology and out OF pnEsl-
ology came calisthenlcs, and from cal
isthenics came our general form or
physical education. These 90 be sure
were fads but fads that were good
ones and productive OF good results
Cites POpe's Advice.
81 do not think for moment That
the teachers here should put their
school rooms into "A workshop for test
ing out new theories or ideas. III may
be of advantage 10 put into operation
those that have been found 10 be ben
eficiaI There seems To me TO be only
one safe rule I'm this matter, and that
is to follow Alexander Pope's thought.
BE not the first TO lay the old aside,
nor vet the last 20 leave the new un-
tried.
More than 200 teachers were in at
tendance Monday morning at the
opening OF the institute, which is 20
last five days. Prof. Charles ID. Albert
OF the state normal school at Blooms
burg. Pa spoke on the "Inderlyins
Principles in Teaching
lie said in part.
Education i'm all forms resolves it
self back into this one saying. IL is the
reconstruction of experience, giving 10
a larger social value through the me-
dunn of increased individual efficiency.
This is the nature of teaching.
The child is the most valuable
thing upon this earth today IL is a
factor that must be dealt with. 1t
must be cared for educated and last
but not least. 10 must be taught 10 he
a social being III is the educating
process that YOU teachers are most
concerned over. Upon YOU bears the
hrunt OF teaching. of moldiug the
child's nature into somethinE inner and
higher than il was before Nou must
not for "a mOmsnt give the child so
much leaning. q block an inch long,
two inches wide. and half inch
thick Of measured intellectually. You
must learn the child's bent OF mind. its
natural qualifications, its adaptations, /
etc
salary is Not Essential.
81 don't care how much your salary
is. or you must not. That is not the
essential thing Your business is 90 /
teach. 90 make yourselves as efficient
as possible. Every experience YOU /
have Isl reconstruction of what rs
gone before. But until YOU remember /
that YOU are teaching not as paid I
hireling OF the state or county. but are /
there 70 add to the social value of the +
child, YOU can never be a SUGGEST al /
instructor"
Intersperscd between the lectures +
which come twice during the morning
and evening sessions, are talks ON mu- /
sic by 1llss Mary Hoham OF the state /
normal school Of Monmouth. ore. she /
directs the singing before and after /
the lectures.
This afternoon Prof. Albert was 4
scheduled TO talk ON "A Working out /
line I'm Geography, and Dr. HUXLEY /
on Lowell the Yankee Idyllst."