The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-06
ATTENDANCE LARGE
Teachers from All sections of the
County Spending Week In the
Teachers school Here
Interest Good.

growing from day TO day. DIR. Hen
derson's lectures are SO inspirine
that not a single teacher is away
from his post OF duty The writer
has not heard a single adverse criti-
cism Of these lectures and this Ger
tainly speaks web for them, 'foi
teachers as a rule are inclined 70
criticise educational addresses de-
livered in Institutes.
After the song service the insti-
tute was divided in sections. the pri-
mary being led by Mrs. Craven and
the intermediate and high school BY
DR.. Henderson. DR.. Henderson gave
q brief review OF the lecture deiiv-
cred Monday AFTERNOON. He said
that in composition work teachers
should pay attention to the follow
ing:
i. Selection OF subject.
2. Short outlines.
3. Seeking OF material.
A.. The arrangement of material.
s. Revision OF material.
He then passed to his regular lee
ture on history. He prefaced his
remarks by saying that the subject
of history was scarcely known In
our schools twenty-five years ago.
The university which Dr.. Hender-
son first attended gave only one
course In history. After twenty
years absence he went back to this
same university and found that
twenty-six courses were given in
! history.
A committee of seven selected by
the historical association of Amer
lea in 1896 formulated the follow
Ing course: For the first year. an
| cient history; second year, medieval
and modern history; for the third
year. English history; fourth year,
American history and civics. In
1909 a committee of five revised the
course that was formulated 1896,
stressing modern history and giving
| less attention to medieval and an
cient history.
In the next five years a complete
history curse will be furnished our
high schools. The students then
win study little about the number
Of soldiers in a battle. Indian wars
or political events, they will study
not what Napoleon did. but how his
|! actions affect us at present. The pu-
pill will study Englioh history in
order to see how ii affects us. DR..
Henderson regretted that he was not
led to appreciate history in its early
days. He stated thai teachers could
lead heir pupils to look about them
and gather the elements of history
and think of them in their relations
to life.
He gave the following course for
grades of the high school: Below the
! fifth grade children should study
myths. legend5. stories and biogra-
| phies; they should study myths be-
cause they are the beginning of his
tory. In the fifth grade there should
be some study of American history.
Texas history should be studied in
the sixth grade. In the seventh
grade they begin studying American
history. ancient history in the eighth
grade. medieval and modern his
tory in the ninth. English history in
the tenth grade. American history in
the eleventh grade. The next thing
that he gave attention to was the
equipment necessary for the teaching
of history. He stated the first thing
necessary was a teacher not merely
a Math or English teacher hut
one who really knows history. In
the second place good ext books
should be used. He suggested that
these ext books should be fat He
! objects seriously To many OF our texts
! NH te'tt A"i otSN ivy fRtFtFf VI
nothing but mere skeletons, composed
of unrelated paragraphs. In the
third place no said that ii is abso-
lutely impossible TO teach history eff
fectiyely without maps. He said
that IL the teacher should tell YOU
that he can teach 4histerv. without
maps then mark IL down that this
teacher is not q, first class hister,
instructor. Moreover. map drawing
should be demanded OF pupils. In
the fourth place a History teacher
should have good source books. Dr
Henderson then CALLED attention L
the general methods OF teaching his