The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-09-08
Miss Schrieber Says
Too Many Are Fault
Finders
TELLS THEM TO
HELP STUDENTS
This Years Institute
Meets With Much
Criticism

| sttAte WHICH Is COINS on this wee
IN the Central high school. what ID
wrong vith the present educational
system, continued her attack on the
teaching Of English, Wednesday
morning
Miss Sch1eber said that too fire
queat!y a teacher finds fault with
The students instead OF helpins
them
You and that John has ave or six
faults IL English or in spelling.
said Miss schriebcr. Are you train
ms John on thpss points, or ar, you
including n.m ia the whole sweep
%. the faults OF al the rest OF the
class
She asserted tia, a teacher o.
English ls likely 20 be- a weasel
q doEt care 10 people point M
ONT a. a Tea her, she said. "but li
thcy say she's "a teacher.of English.
I'm worried go death I've heard
that remark at dinner table. anc
seen race conversation gradually stop.
because each person was afraid that
be or She Nog.l be- heard making q
mistake I've had 20 make mistakes
iu English parpoi y 70 that people
would ,ec. friendly
DON be- s4u.-srde- Eucour.
age your Students Look so- ara op.
orlIrE 20 1853 That's dre John
I send uy students 90 tas black.
poar1 10 rrfe what they have seen
Ga teaching aeu DESCRIPTION u
everl vc-a is spelled. s tterc is
mos -- -Gr. ~ aurcreattog. .
don sos au aEE drill those
stace--s 90 express what ,hey have
In tEen f- expires IIl O. ke care
OF tEe spelling and The punctuation
IN .le raai place Eur Hhen I'm
draaa- them Ia one ming don't
stop 90 pics gD nay hair If lt fails
OF I done cross The room 70 low ar
a shl.a. don say ANYTHING 70 The
si-i aho Is whispering II attend 20
wha base in hand"
Mss ~e1u-ber told o. system
Of ea-hing English IN which .h-
Teacher Ea'ed 90 card tbe mis-
takes made ~ her pupils. telling
ttem that one of he BLACK marks
ia dovG FOR iacorrect Language
would BE- erased for every report
MADE to her thar the words had
bernr used correctly IN This way.
the children were taught 20 correct
their individual mistakes and they
took I-.de Do keeping their cards
clean
Miss Schriebers talk are stirring
the TEACHERS 20 a great deal o. dis
crssion They gather in the corri.
dors and szclaim against her attacks
On grammar Ihey refuse TO believe
ttat correct English can be taught
without a study of grammar. and
they say they would Ike 70 have an
opportunity o. quizzing Miss Schr!e-
Der.
we have 70 cit still and take
what she ssys. said one teacher
Some og us have opinions on that
subject Just a. strong as hers. and
7e question The accuracy OF some Of
her views We would Ike 70 have
a chance 20 question her.
Edwin y TUitmyer. In his fret
[ lectuse Wednesday. brought out the
fao' that poor health Is quite usual
( in adolescence and urged the teach.
era n "sympathize with the chin.
dreu. man 70 man and woman 10 vo-
mai. and help them over that time .
sirkneTs, he said, Is due 10 The Pc
Rod II rapid growth which comes in
Z the twelfth 20 the hfteenth year. RE
+ cited statistics from Copenhagen.
I ~ here ? 0o0 boys we're examined and
4 onethlrd were found 10 have suffer.
al from poor health IN tho Adde'S.
cent period. and from Sweden. where
I - per cent Of the girls said that
+ trey had been IN bad health IN their
thirteenth year
Prot Percy v Boyn,on continued
he lectures on Mark Twain. and also
talked Of the work Of Nicholas Va.
chel Lindsay Harold n Brown gave
Instruction IN the teaching Of draw
ing Prof Lbbys subjects we're IN.
gfincts and sane affections. and
MORAL equivalents FOR immoral ac.
tvities prof shryock lectured On
I poetry and fiction
Many OF the teachers are taking
'he Institute az hugo joke. One
'amonted tho tart that no record OF
attendance Is kept
"lf some0na were watching us 20
SEQ Tran We attended these lectures.
we could dodge them and get away
20 said "As q IL. W. have 10 GER
tfy that we were present That's
( the only thing hat ksops mo here +"
Ono ~ the men principals assert
ed that he vas spending most "a
ris lime IN The halls and Intended
I ~ continue W DO 40.
Prof Boynton's sections are al
way- overcrowdod. aud 20 are Prof
shfyocks Mias schriebsr attracts