Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-03-10
UNDERGRADUATES HEAR
LINCOLN SCHOOL EXPERT

There was an interested audience of
teachers and maflerS Ut the meeting
Of the Eastern Connecticut kindersar-
ten-Primary Association. held in tie
Osgood Memorial Oh Saturday morn
ing and afternoon.
Miss Helen Royce, president, called
the meeting TO order, and afte, q brief
word of welcome introduced Mss Gail
Harrison, OF the Lincoln School, New
York, who spoke most Interestingly on
modern psychology. applying her sub
iect practically to discipline AMI e4r-
y education.
Children ale the citizens Of the flu
ture and We iaLst see % it that they
have the BEST traiising to fit them f0r
their coming responsibilities. There
has never been a time in the history
cf America, when the relation If The
governed and the governing needed so
riucht coasidera ton, or 50 many is
sues that thinking men and women
must face. We have no conception OF
the possibilities CT /. OdsSn free ys-oi *
III the school room, un'ess we have
brought to a focus The principle Of
diSciDline-nOt the Oh system OF au
tocracy or sGDpYc 3sion-but q kind OF
project work winch vii: hold the chill
dren. The full cooperation and team
work Of. teachers is needed in the
school room. alI W3rkirg for one re-
| sIlt with the unity of purposa The
| kind of 1iseioi;n2 we !eed is thai OF
| the self oyerned--freedom controlled
! by the teacher and by the child h.nt-
self This must be attained slowly,
from the kindergarten days up; there
! is where the home can help, by coop
Grating with the fewest possible rules
and very few "don'ts.'
| Mothers and teachers should study
| q child's natural instincts. Children
| should nave their rough corners pol
| islled off by association with others OF
! their own age: in the early process OF
character building, A child must Learn
/ the relative values of master and sub
mission. We are all OF Us. young ant
! cid dominated by the love of appro-
rai-no one is free from the great
current of public opinion. The ain,
/ Of all living things is the improve
trent of satisfaction or wants. and the
child early demonstrates this instinct
| We do not take time enough to be
| happy. as a rule. or to form the habit
! of using leisure time, valuably. After
| the birth of the dawn of re1son-aboul
four years of age-childreI are nat
| urally reasonable enough, but they
acquire the habit of not falling intG
unity of purpose. If properly present
ed, it is easy for them to acquire {
habit OF consideration for others, WheI
their reasonins power begins develop
ing Before the dawn Of rea son. CON
troll can steadily be built. by the moth
er's voice; all this takes time, ant
there is no evadinS the issue for thu
rtiother There is no profession 81
| beautiful as that of mother. and /
teachers and mothers pull together, j
| will be the dawn of true democra CIV
After the dawn Of reason, character
is built up by anneyances-Wl1at Thu
psychologist calls, "satisfier& and an
movers" Youth is the age of adapta
hility and habit building, and tn
psychology of habit is the building O
muscular and automatic response, tn,
creating of right response. Fear neve
succeeds with child; It simpl,
builds up little hypocritieal ways o
deceit and slyness. Teachers Shouts
! nEant only one thing a a lime in til