Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1918-04-25

Of education is to make and understand
q f1reless cooker"
The morning session. closed with a
short address by Prof S. F. Emerson, |
In which he pointed out how, from the |
point of view of historian. every force
In our modern social life has its germ
In the ancient world.
After a "wheatless" luncheon to the
visiting teachers at the home Of Pro-
fessor and Mrs. Bassett, the meeting was
resumed with a paper by Professor Bur-
rage of Mddlebury College on How to
Teach Greek With Few Facts and Less
Brains" By few facts the speaker
| meant the minimum OF syntactical rules
through which beginner may gain n
real knowledge of Greek. whether Tess
brains" referred to the student or to the
teacher was left for the sense of humor
Of the audience to determine.
LATIN IN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
| Owing to the unavoidable absence of
Prin. w. H. Douglass of the Burlington
Junior high school, an abstract Of his
paper on Latin In the Junior High
School, was presented by Professor Bas-
sett. The Views of Principal Douglass
interesting and instructive. He en-
phasized first the need of the teacher to
know both the subject and the pupil, and
secondly, the need to make Latin pay
it's way, that Is, pay the pupil every
day for the time he puts into It. In
order to prove to his pupils the large
part which Latin plays in the world of
to day, he points out to them the Latin
} authorizations still in common use, the
wide employment of Latin In college and
State notices. It's use to give point
J to q cartoon, or to add humor to q bit
| Of verse. BY such means the interest of
; the pupil is aroused and, of their own
accord they collect examples Of Latin SC
! used. Several charts were chawn of COL
. lege Shields State notices, and the like
1 aH gathered by the students. and also
> of family trees" drawn by the students
Q having a Latin word as tho root and
: English derivatives of tho word as
E branches. Whenever possible the teacher
Z connects the subject under discussion
s with something that would tend to arouse
0 the pupils interest; Latin motto Is the
Y occasion for talk on Roman beliefs ant
: ideas, or for the telling Of some English
= masterpiece dealing with them.
d WHAT AFTER THE WAR?
The last paper of the session was rea,
by Principal Charles II. Morrill, o
Brigham Academy on 1.-THE Place Of tn,
/" Humanities In Education after the War.
The humanities the speaker defined al
. "those studies which pertain to the human
spirit as manifested in intellectual
. aesthetic, and moral activities" The,
. include, therefore, language, literature
. music and art, history and biography
- mental and moral sciences. Although
| ho1 mn 1.-Two h1yh oil ctV
9 he must have bread, and true schem
=, of education must reckon both with man
physical and his spiritual nature. Here
however, we must not ignore relativ
values we must not concede the stomach
r equality with the mind In our school
y 1.-The first place belongs to those branche
e Of knowledge which reveal and perpetual
e the nobility of lives that have passe
e from the stage, and to those forms O
4, expression that give voice to the souls @
$, the past and present and inspiration t
I, all who can hear the voice." We hav
h been too ready to let the matter-of- fac
Il view of life, the spirit of bushes.
l. dominate our system of education; tn
ID question is not what will the pupil d
l. with this subject when he has learned it
" but what will 1t do to him when he ha
" learned it. And again, not what does tn
10 pupil hHOW anu WHdt CdH ne 90 DuL VIVA
lie can he feel and what can be dare w
lie need material resources and efficiency t
A. win the war but we cannot win 1t wit
lie these save as they are backed by tn
IN spirits of men battling for an idea. fc
e. something higher than worldly posse.
Or sions. We cannot correct the past but "
n. must improve 1t, and the only foundatio
It, for the new structure can be that of tn
n. solid virtues of intellectual, moral, an
lie spiritual excellence,-an education whic
or includes the training of the spirit as we
e. as the providing of commodities.
:" OFFICERS ELECTED.
Mt At the business meeting the followir
L. officers were chosen for the ensuing yea
e. President Professor NJ. b. Ogle, Tn
ne versity of Vermont; secretary-treasure
L. Professor W. b. Burrage. Mfiddlebur
is College; executive committee, Principal .
tx S. Hartman, Middlebury high schoc
~ Miss Effie Moore, Burlington high schoc
e. N. v. Barker Goddard Seminary. tt
he association voted that these officers CO
n stitute a committee to consider and carr
at out with the cooperation of all the men
s. bers of the association, plans for Il
ed strengthening and extending the infiuen
n Of cultural studies In the seconda
re- schools,