Show of a meeting of the ai educational weber co held in the centrik School schoolhouse hoise april 1881 the meeting was called to order by the president at 1110 am and am the opel opening g prayer offered ed by grover after which the minutes c tile previous Y were read an al approved roved i av J im vevan ad ac dress on oil school government Govern i which the su ct af pf p aws 91 as furnishing furnis liing employment for I pupils upil when tired of every other r study aut y L F I monch honch made afew a few remarks endorsing the address in general and made special mention of drawing clias chas wright gave examples on the blackboard black board of tile method employed in teaching this branch leo haefeli next gave an in address on the study of history he ile said history might bo be separated into three divisions national sacred and profane he ile referred to the book of IN mormon as the ancient history of this continent and compared it with the conjectures of historians lie ile thought we nye should feel as RS much at liberty to teach it in our schools as to teach the history of the united states or relate anecdotes of the bible biblical history lie divided into three parts the old te testament new testament and the history lii story of the early fathers through the study of the latter we become acquainted quain ted with the actions of men of whom we w have no other authentic record the old testament gives a history of the doings of gods itic act t favored people and from alic bew testament we learn of the doings of christ and alie spread of christianity among the nation nations through the study of national history we become familiar with the doings doing of our own nation with the sacred principles of tile constitution and with the perversions of those principles by more modem modern legislators from front ancient history lii story we learn of the splendor of greece and rome nations that rose roe to the highest pinnacle of greatness and excellence in political supremacy tc and the knowl knowledge edt e of tile arts and sciences though as nations they have long since faded away in history they yet live and furnish furni sli the most splendid examples of exalted virtue patriotism and self sacrifice forthe for alic love of country the speaker closed with a quotation from one of the german poets the history lii story or of the world is tile worlds tribunal geography was next presented by charlca charl bright wright expressed lie Ife cypre bcd the opinion abat teaches I fall all into a great error in alic continual ue use of text books requiring pupils to learn and recite verbatim the contents of the books without requiring them to give e expression expresion sion t to their thoughts though ta in ill their own lan language aage in ili teaching geography lie he began agall by locating 01 objects ecta wit it which pupils were familiar at the diff different erent points of the compass he would next show them thern by maps drawn on oil the blackboard the direction and location of rivers mountains and oceans his ilis ques eions were written ones on oil the black board upon which the pupils VIS were first questioned by the tea teachers c ers and then they questioned each other the maps he lie used were those without the names of the various local tie upon them and from t y i these pupils were required to locate pj ph chico phico ico r iw ao abey were named by the chuy lie ile believed in going from frow center to circumference henc bence lie I always began with utah drawing tile outlines upon the tile board and then annexing other s antwi and territories ri which it lie required tile pupils to to copy py on oil their an in which the aliey often became quite proficient before taking up zip geography bogra as a pheas L F loncle should have spoken on oil school reports but the timo time for dismissing having arrived it waa was postponed for one at which time tile trustees of the various d di n i griets are specially requested to le ile present pre its the tile subject ia ii of great reat importance to them the speaker made a few remarks of general application on the method of arcs ing the various branches and clas closed ed by subin ittin the following pro gr gramme adinie for the next meeting meeting rl drawing II 11 II 11 jone Ili history story of education I E 11 II anderson school improvements F P A miller Ilc john L wilton wilson duties of teacher to children P later select heading reading S G clow crowley ley song lorenzo AVald waldram rani and callip company a it S school reports prof L P F monch the meeting adjourned till the tile lat laa la t saturday hi in may Y benediction by J T hick C looper X Z BALLAy secretary an exchange publishes an article headed iliew how to tell a it road do dog we have nothing to to tell t a n mail 11 do dog tit that at we cannot commini communicate e ite by telephone or postal card |