CREDITS. George F. Baker, 187. Walter Bodenhofer, 184. Ellen Creek, 184, 185. E. F. Douglass, 184. Thomas Hallett, 184, 185, 186. Č. J. Harwood, 184. O. L. Johnson, 184. N. A. Johnson, 184. C. W. Jack, 184. A. Leckrone, 184, 186. Donn A. Little, 184, 185, 186, 187. John Morrow, 184, 185, 186. L. J. Norman, 184, 185. D. W. Pearce, 184, 185, 187. M. U. Stockton, 184. J. A. Scott, 184. Elise M. Statz, 184, 185, 186, 187. S. P. Schull, 187. N. O. Troyer, 187. F. T. Valee, 184, 185, 186. L. O. Youse, 184. Floyd Pittman, 184, 185, 186. Ella Thompson, 184, 185, 186. Charles Busby, 184, 185, 186. A CORRECTION. Through an oversight the eighth problem in March arithmetic list was solved incorrectly in the April Journal. It should have read: [Entered at the Indianapolis Postoffice as second-class matter] PUBLISHED THE FIRST OF EACH MONTH. $1.00 PER YEAR ROBERT J. ALEY, PH. D., EDITOR. MISSING NUMBERS.-Subscribers who may fail to receive their Journals by seventh of month should notify us 28 South Meridian Street Winona. Indianapolis. Two great meetings. Editorial Department More than 5,000 teachers at the two meetings. Indianapolis did her part nobly, nearly 800 of her teachers enrolling. Winona handled the crowd in an admirable way. Mt. Vernon's 37 teachers traveled in two States, on five railroads, and nearly 1,000 miles to attend the Indianapolis meeting. These two great meetings, enrolling nearly one-third of the teachers of the State, show the stuff Indiana teachers are made of. They are loyal and enthusiastic and they believe in the work they are doing. Dr. Hughes, of Toronto, pleased the teachers with his earnestness and wide grasp of educational problems. He makes the mistake common to most eastern educators. He grows eloquent over questions that were settled in Indiana a decade ago. The sickness of Bliss Perry was most unfortunate. Indiana teachers greatly desired to hear him. President Dabney, of Cincinnati, gave some excellent lectures that were greatly appreciated, but Commercial Club Building he was handicapped by the audience's disappointment in not getting to hear Bliss Perry. Entertainment was made an important feature of the Winona meeting. This was certainly a wise change. Teachers like the solid, but they need the relaxation that comes from the entertaining. proper mixture of the highest form of entertainment with the best instruction makes an ideal program. This Winona had. W. W. Stetson, of Maine, was the feature of the Winona meeting. He is the feature of every program upon which he appears. He is one of the two or three great State Superintendents. His keen observation, wide scholarship and abundant common sense never fail to please. May Stetson visit Indiana often. He will always find the latchstring out. Our schools will never exert the power they should until we pay strong men and women the same wages to teach that their brains and energy would command elsewhere. It is a mistake to scold the saints, in the hope that sinners will be reformed thereby. If you must scold in the schoolroom, direct your scolding to those that need it. The best advice for scolding is, don't. Scolding generally annoys the saint and exasperates the sinner. Teaching is a happy profession. From the standpoint of pay it is not agreeable, but in the joy of the work there is large compensation. The teacher should stay young till late in life, for all his work conduces to youthfulness of spirit. Justice always implies that the accused has had a chance to present his defense. If justice is to prevail in the schoolroom, each pupil must have the right to present his defense before censure or punishment is administered. In the Journal of Education of March 31, Dr. A. E. Winship, the editor, gives a most appreciative write-up of the Northern Indiana Normal School under the heading, "Valparaiso, a Revelation." Indiana is proud of this great school. All friends of real education rejoice in its marvelous prosperity. Its good is beyond measure. A little girl recently defined an educated man as one "who never does any work." This is quite a popular, but nevertheless a very erroneous, view of education. Education should greatly increase one's effectiveness. The educated man should be the hardest and most effective worker of his community. The best teacher makes himself so valuable that he is wanted in another school. He is ambitious, and never becomes so wedded to one place that he loses his desire for promotion. The teacher who remains long in one place, ought to do so because he has received frequent promotions. The teachers of Pittsburgh made a united campaign for an increase of salary, and although the city was building a new $1,000,000 school building, they succeeded. The increase amounts to nearly 10 per cent. Professor Bailey, of Cornell, says: "Shut up the old red schoolhouse! It is a milestone in our progress, but milestones are dead. Shut up the old red schoolhouse! The hamlet school is the rural school of the future, and it shall be the guiding star to our children's lives as the district school has been to ours." This is surely a true prophecy. Already general consolidation is in sight. President Harper's summary of the qualifications of a college professor are as follows: "(1) He should be married. (2) He should be a church member. (3) He should mix with his students outside the classroom. (4) He should have a doctor's degree. (5) He should be willing to work hard eleven months in the year. (6) He should be in sympathy with the public and take an active interest in public affairs." These are good. If the college professor were allowed to speak, he would place upon the college but one qualification, viz., the ability and willingness to pay better for the service it demands. Every teacher who possibly can do so should visit the Louisiana Purchase Exposition this summer. The educational exhibit should be studied with care. This exhibit will give a complete picture of present educational facilities and methods. Indiana's exhibit is a worthy one. Every Indiana teacher should see and study this exhibit. State Superintendent Cotton and Superintendent Millis have done a work in preparing this exhibit that demands the thanks and sympathetic interest of every friend of education in the State. Their best pay will come from the interest you take in it and the lessons you learn from it. Remember the National Educational Association at St. Louis, June 28 to July 1. The program of the Department of Science is unusually interesting to Indiana teachers. The president of this department is Wilbur A. Fiske, of Richmond. John F. Thomson, of the Richmond high school, will read a paper on "The Microscope in the Biological Laboratory of the High School." "The Subject-Matter of High School Physics" is the title of a paper by Dr. A. L. Foley, of Indiana University. Prof. W. M. Blanchard, of DePauw, will read a paper, "The Value of Chemistry in Secondary Education." Definite Teaching. Much teaching fails of its purpose because it is indefinite. When pupils leave a recitation without having some difinite result well fixed in their minds, they have been poorly paid for their time. There must be a definite aim in every school exercise. Teaching must start somewhere and it must get somewhere. Apparatus and books frequently get in the way of definiteness. They make it so. easy to scatter one's efforts. We must have books and helps, but with them, we must have teachers with such singleness of purpose that the definite result to be attained will not be lost sight of. Definite teaching occurs as the result of careful preparation by the teacher. Extemperaneous teaching is rarely, if ever, definite. No teacher is so familiar with his subject, that he does not need to make definite preparation for each day's work. Definite teaching sees the whole subject in proper perspective, singles out the absolutely essential, concentrates effort upon the essential, and gives frequent new views of the old rather than tedious reviews. Strike Crime at Its Source. In Chicago they have recently had the experience of trying and convicting three young bandits. It was an expensive. experience, as it cost about $60,000. It. is an experience which the city may expect to repeat at frequent intervals, for there are several hundred places in the city where "Infant Bandit Food" is openly offered for sale at 5 cents a sample. This food is in the form of very cheap and attractive appearing books. These books paint crime in the most attractive colors, thereby inflaming the mind and filling it with the most vicious thoughts. Much of this literature (so called) is barred from the United States mails. Why ought it not be barred from sale? It is no more an infringement of personal liberty to prevent the exposure and sale of such books, than it is to prevent a smallpox patient from roaming the streets and spreading contagion at his own sweet will. Society has as much right to protect itself in the one case as in the other. Every school should be the central influ ence in a local campaign against the power of vicious literature. The school should help to strike the blow at the very root of crime. The school should not only lead in the work against vicious literature, but it should double its efforts in teaching good literature and creating a taste for it. Fight the evil and fight it at its source, but be ever ready to replace the old source by a new one that will bear good fruit. Unfortunate Advertisement. During the current school year Indiana has received much unfavorable notice through unfortunate school occurrences. The cruel and inhuman ducking of a woman teacher, the wholesale whipping of all the pupils of a school, and the unseemly treatment given to a newly married teacher and his wife, have all received wide space in the daily papers of the entire country. The leading educational papers of the country have not spared the feelings of Indiana teachers in their comments upon these occurrences. It is not the intention of this Journal to make excuses for any of these occurrences. With all proper reductions for press report exaggerations, the fact still remains, that in each case things happened that ought not to have happened. The experience has been costly, but the lesson is learned and there will be no repetition of these things in the communities concerned. We desire to protest against the idea expressed in many papers that these events are representative of Indiana schools. They are not. They do not even represent the communities in which they occurred. Indiana schools are the equals of the best. Her teachers and her pupils will not suffer by any comparison. Because of an occasional excess here or there, faith must not be shaken in the system nor in the men and women who are so nobly giving themselves to it. The seventeen thousand teachers of Indiana must stand as a unit against all excesses. The fair name of our school State must not again be sullied. |