South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-09-03
ARE ENTITLED
To EQUAL CHANCE
PreCociouS Child Should be Civ
en- as Many Opportunities
as the Dull Student.
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not help, and they hat are afflicted
can not help. the fact that there is so
much feeble-mindedness, and imbe-
City. Those words should not be
words of approach. 1t is not h
child's fault. He has inherited 1t.
They are o to blame, the blame be-
longs back generations age when their
fathers and mothers violated the laws
of God and sinned.
Must Know Pupils.
Children have defective sense lines
physical again. They may be part
" deaf, and yet I have known teach
ers who knew that their pupils were
hard of hearing to permit them to
sit on the back seat of a school room,
where they could grasp nothing of the
lesson going on. The child whose
sense line of seeing is partially de-
stroyed, and which is not taken care
of by the teacher, will in due tine
produce stupidity.
These are physical lines. and the
mental ones are those that are ig-
nored more than the others. The
mental r~etardation which the boy or
girl receives in the class Dom, is n
of the most serious problems in ped
agogy today"
Don't Forget the Letter.
"You can send the picture post
card, but don't forget the letter
home This was the keynote to DR..
w. ID. Henderson's morning address
before the county institute in dis
cussing the Fine Art of Letter Writ
ing"
There are three forms of letters,
the speaker said. They are the bus
mess letter, the formal social letter
and the letter that carries the mes
sage.
Letter writing was primarily an
art and a science. There is now more
cience than art, for the art has almost
disappeared entirely. Business let
tiers should be short. pointed, and
definite. The business man considers
the letter as a basis upon which he
judges the qualifications of the writer
for the position wanted, if the let
tiers happens to be an application.
II would have you teachers in
struct your pupils in letter writing.
Dictate letters TO them. Make them
understand the purpose of the letters,
and finally have them write a us
mess letter. You must correct them.
hand them back, and point out the
mistakes. You car create an inter-
est in the class room in letter writ
ing. Show them a business letter that
you have received, a real business
letter, not one copied from the books.
Teach them to write kilograms, and
then finally ads. A,
Teach Finer Points.
Furthermore show them how to
fold the business letter. Then go
further and instruct them in writing
the social note which calls for a for
nal acceptance of an invitation. or
a formal refusal to a formal note.
Teach them the finer points. Many a
young man or woman would have
been saved much embarrassment. had
he known how to answer the formal
letter.
And lastly, I would have you urge
the children never TO forget the let
ter home. Send the post card occa-
sionally, but don't let them substitute
for the letter. L would have you train
your children in this direction. and
teach them to be careful in their let
ters from the heart to the heart, just
as they should be careful in their
table I don't mean that
they should be stilted. but that they
which accompany the writing of the
letter which contains the message"
During the time that the speaker
was discussing the various features OF
letter writing he demonstrated his
lecture with Illustrations of the proper
manner in which the different forms
of letters should be addressed, and
folded.
Government by anticipation, govern
ment by participation, and government
by mediation were the principles of
discipline urged by DR.. w. d. Hender-
son in his tenth and last lecture be-
fore the teachers at the institute Fri
day afternoon. His parting words of
advice to the teachers was that when
disciplinary problems were presented,
and hat the teachers did not know
what TO do to control the situation,
they should do nothing until they
thought the matter out.
I ->-Ha-- --. 1870