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VOLUME XV
THB iOXJKHAL. Vol se       No. 41
FLORA. ILLINOIS. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 7. 1926
NUMBER 4
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.TBACHratS INSTTTOTB!
OCTOBER MJPTIAIiS
'tfonday, Tuesday and Wedneaday M fTlay county achoola -were dls- ^laaad ao the teachera ot the county 4|ouM attend the teachera' Inatitute,
. IMd at Flora. There was a large at- tandanee and a very auooeaaful meet- TB|g, The aeastons were held at the high school building.
An nhusual quality ot inatn feaa heon offered those who nava at- aendod the Clay County Inatitute. Ilr. Gillespie.- Coonty Saperlnten- dent, has secured ,*xcellent speakers. I>r. W. P. Dearing and Orever 81ms elf Oakland City College, Prof. H. D. IVMcer ef lUlnols 8taU Teachers' '^MWge at Charleston, and W. 8. Booth, Supervisor of EHementary Bd- aeatlon, Springfield. Illinois.
At the beginning of each aession Orover Sims not only conducted the .aaaembly music In a manner which Tasnlted in unusual group singing. %at he increased the appreciation of hli audience for finer mnisic. Miss Stevens of Terre Haute, Indiana, con- ¦dneted the singing on Wednesday. Both directors were aasisfed by Miss Mner Bills.
Wf. Dearing gave his lectnres In a sarlov, The Teacher and his Task. Jle^^te on the following subjects: KplMHedge versus Ignorance, Self AtMnt versus Poverty, Moral Char- «Otar rersas Crime, Culture versus Coaraeness, Power versus Weakness, Boelallzation versus Selfishness and CItlaenahIp Torana Anarchy. He continually held up before tbe teach- «jra the following motto: Be what you wish your pupils to become—All eU) la apery and mockery. '¦¦Ok Monday, 'Professor Widger ¦foke. on the Appreciation of Liter- sUare. fie stated the following four ¦wayn In Which literature might aid, ithe- individual. Literature can help tone to express his own thoughts; it Ibsepa an Ideal before one; It gives one a better knowledge of human -nature and it glorifies the common -place things of life. In the after- noon he spoke upon the subject of Increasing the rate of sight reading
' .He emphasised that the rate of 'reading should not exceed the rate ¦of -understanding. As soon as the -word is visualised It 'should be un¬ derstood without the processes of lip moving and hearing.
On Tuesday morning, Mr. Wld- -Rer'a topic was on    the menace    of
' the haK-oducated. He deSded the' "half educated" as those    who    al-|
• lowed their lives to be guided by | ¦chance or luck—rather than ao mo¬ tivating their lives to defeat chance. 'Mr. WIdger's laat topic of the - day -atressed comprehenalon in reading. He brought out that the only way to xet a mastery ot the subject mattei Is'to get the material arranged co¬ herently. This aids in tbe retention Of the material and In the reproduc- tloA.wf the thought of the writer.
l(v: WIdger's Wednesday morning *aik Iras on tbe memorisation of poetry.    Memorised    selections  will
. «iirtch lite and its rnlationshlp, when reading material and communication trith ethers are not accessible. Mr. "WUIger recltr-d selections from Tntilning, Burns, Kipling and Mose- JMd.l|Uh anch feeling that the points
. %MMtrlM vade ^^Te strongly em ^liiMsa4. In the afternoon Mr. raer'a (Hlhjeet was "Promethetis Prankensteln." Promethns -mankind all the blessings of Krankenstein produced a fiend de- xtrnctive to lite. Sbail scloucc be -Prometbeua or        Frankeaateiu?
:8cience will be Promethons ft aided Iky.j^ which attbduea the baaer feel- dwjttid brings out the-flner emotiona. ^h^ W. 8. Booth apoke both Wed- -nesday mornltig and WcdnMday af- ternoon upon the organlsatlaia ttr i9le> Oeniary achool work. In tlih after¬ noon he emphaalsed mo