The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-05

Bones and muscles grow rand
" in boys and girls The muscles
and bones are not correlated. hence
the boy Is extremely awkward. He
comes into the room and falls over
chair or table. You think il :
purely carelessness on his part. but
the hoy cannot help il for he lacks
control of himself. DO not seold
the child for this awkwardness. The
teachers should realize that he has a
wonderful chance during this adaIe-
scent period. This is the day when
great friendships are formed. for il
is the day of great sympathy. II is
the time when the boy and girl need
n friend
DR.. Henderson said that If he
should ask each teacher present 20
name the teacher that he loved best
he would not call the name of his
primary instructor or some college
professor but the name of the man
for woman who instructed him dur.
ling the adalescent period.
Changes come to the various senses
such as sight and hearing. taste
during the adalescent period. in fact
the child has hungry senses at this
period. The girl wants the loudest
ldress that she can buy. one so loud
THAT you can almost hear IL, soft col
Iors do not appeal to her at all. The
food that the girl selects at this
period shows the taste. she wants
pickles and peppermint candy. Ev-
lerything she eats must have decid-
led taste. There is great change in
the hearing. The boy talks as loud
as he can so that he may hear him
lself. Then there is the change in
1.-THE sense of touch. this is the dam
ger period. What thoughts do you
have that did not arise in the sen
sorry man? These great mental
changes are rare opportunities for
the teacher. When the teacher is
developing the various senses in
Ichildren he is developing the child
for a rounded life.
Sectional Meetings.
At 2:15 O'Clock all of the teachers
went to the various section meetings.
The high school section was presided
lover by Miss Olive Adams, teacher
of history in the Red Oak high
school. The first subject discussed
was that of correlation. Miss Adams
showed the necessity of correlating
new facts to old ones so that the
new ones might be more definitely
fixed She showed how natural was
the correlation of history and geog-
|raphy. To illustrate this point she
named the historical fact that the
Venitians were maritime people and
geographical position of Venitia had
been different.
The next speaker was Miss Sanders
of Italy. She discussed how the
study of English and Latin might be
correlated. She said that she show
ed her pupils that Latin was very
useful language in the study If
English. Mr. King discussed the
topic of correlation of science and
history. He said that if he were
teaching Archimedes principles in 4
science lesson he would take advan-
tage of the opportunity to teach the
pupil how the principles were APP
piled in the construction of certain
fighting machines at the siege of
Syracuse.
Mr.. Ward of Ferris discussed an
other very interesting topic in this
section meeting, that of chapel ex-
ercises. He said that many teach !
ers were opposed to chapel exercises
but he thought it was rare oppor-
tunity for spiritual teaching, inspira
tional talks and the presenting OF
policies that were for the uplift of
the community and the school. He
showed the different phases of the
study of citizenship could be en-
phasized. He told how the chapel
exercises were conducted i'll the Fer
ris high school, At certain times
various pastors were asked to adj
dress the student body, at other
times scripture lessons were taught,
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