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Show Kl'f'l ATiONAfj AK5iU'ATUN j The nepociatioa as-embl'.-d at the TLiirtcciilh wrd aaeembly room yealerdiy, at 1 p m.. The pre:ideut, jMr. T. B. LewU, in the chair. After the usuil opening exercises, Mr. S. H. Leaver explained hia manner oi conducting recitation classes ia the Eighth district school. He dii nc-t leach the alphabet to small pupil, but preferred the word UK-thud, and tuuht them to print on the blackboard and sla!e until they advanced to the (second reader, when he Uught them to read ecript until the writing tjpa wages familiar as Roman letters. In the primary clasEes the pnpils tiiould be taught the art of making and adding figures and much time should be devoted -to additicn. Iu the moro advanced classes be taught spelling by dictation, dic-tation, us it trains the eye and the ear simultaneously. He showed the necessity of cood order, and main tained that it was a duty binding on the teacher to obtain a feeling of re-apect re-apect and reverence among the scholars schol-ars more than a feeling ol fear. Mr. W. U. VauDam, teacher Seventh district, read en article on mental .arithmetic, Ehowing tbe necessity and (superiority of a thorough knowledge of mental arithmetic before be-fore advancing into mathematics, as the lulea may be committed lo memory and problems eolved by rule, mechanically, on tho elate without tho pupil understanding the whys and wherefoies. The reasoning faculties should be developed in arithmelio moro than any other branch of education. edu-cation. A motion was carried that a committee com-mittee of three be appointed to find tbe beet person and the cheapest way of generally introducing musio lessons les-sons in the district schools, the plan suggested being to arrange with some competent person lo tako charge oi suoh branch in each and all of the schools not otherwise provided for. Messrs. O. H. Rigga and Vm, Fuller and Misa Lottie CUrage were appointed the programme commiltee, the time of appointment of the prior committee having expired. County Superintendent Lewis explained ex-plained that he had issued orders on the county treasurer in favor of the trustGea for a pro raia division of the stray pound funds for the benefit of the dislrict echocla, but as tbe treasurer treas-urer was as yet undecided upon tbe construction of the law relating to the matter, tho funda were not aa yet obtainable. The association adjourned for two weeks. |