The Inland Educator Volume 5-6 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...His theme was "The Problem of the Child." President Ogg said that he had no revelation of new truth to make, but somehow the teachers felt that he had presented an old story in a very helpful way, indeed. We shall be pleased to print his address entire in the February EduCator. The paper by W. H. Sanders of Marion, on "What the Public demands of the Public Schools" received the attention of the teachers. This idea of bringing thinking men of other professions into meetings and getting in closer touch with them is one that ought to be encouraged. It will simply be impossible fer us in our limited space to do justice to all the good things that were said in the General Association, and we can only mention some of them here and hope to make a larger presentation in a later issue. The paper by Superintendent W. H. Sanders of Rensselaer, was a very sensible presentation of the subject of better educational and social relations between teacher and patron. We thought that he brought out every phase of the important topic. We were much please with the discussion of his paper by Miss Anna Wilson of Crawfordsville. She evidently has ideas of her own and they are first-rate ones. The remaining papers of Wednesday were largely commented upon, which was an evidence, in itself, of their value. The first of these papers was by Superintendent Humke of Vincennes, on "Distracting Elements in the School Life of the Pupil; How Meet Them?" which was discussed by Miss Laura Frazee of Terre Haute. The second of these papers was on "The Unnecessary Burdens of the Grade Teacher: How Relieve Them?" by Miss Kate Moran, principal of the State Normal Training School. This paper was happily discussed by Superintendent Jones of Tipton, and was the ...