Show TEACHERS I 1 association may 14 1886 the tile meeting commenced with singing by the choir the shining river and prayer was wa 0 offered by prof T B lewis SP sniping ingin by the ell choir rl ll 11 gird ou on the armor the h e following follow inc enrollments enroll menta were given for the week E A A P A academic Aca 11 lemic dept T lew 51 40 80 90 1 no 2 1 I hall 70 0 o ci U 92 grammar M Tre seUer 01 M 6 91 intermediate N dana gi cl gi 89 first ward H II 11 critchlow 90 70 76 00 90 hemond ward E N lo 10 lot ul ut third ward 0 6 critchlow 0 hi M st 84 fourth ward ferdl I 1 it monch 10 97 PI 91 fourth ward 2 AI Hi nuford at TA 65 the teachers are required to give a full report of their work at the next meeting the audience was highly pleased and charmed with the song 16 lullaby which was aati eang r in grand etyla in falsetto by air mr J J tf 0 adams M mr r L coray mr jos jackson and mr A T waldram were ap pointed as judges and the question f r debate resolved that aberson a person learns more from front observation than from books was va S proceeded roce eded with As AIMS ida si packard was absent miss dana dan a by la it motion was vas ex from a taking a part in the dia cassion CUis cus ioD sion the areti speaker mr M hall on the affa affi affirmative amative side illustrated many points showing how we learn from observation it is impassible impossible to learn a trade unless we aro are allowed to notice the operations of the trade take a child and place it in a room of many books and it is impossible for it to learn without 0 objects to illustrate the ille ideas advanced we learn to do by doling many persons who could ne neither ither read nor write are educated because beca ilsO hey arc are observers and can con converse v erse upon subjects intelligently inventions said the speaker have been heen made without the uso use of books 1 and I also 18 0 many discoveries haye have I 1 been made inside without reading a book mr rel anderson followed follow A with an interesting lecture ou oil tv ano use of bf books it is an absolute decess necessity ity in order thai that the great disc discoveries I 1 overie and inventions may be preserve pre preserved d to I 1 following towing Ns generations that the heir works be recorded in books we have the wisdom of ages from them in a short time we may learn what ob blit erving men hive liy ayed fda a lifetime life tinie to gain they are the great educators of the maes mass cs es the only nay way the majority of ot observers can caa learn great facts f acts uby ai by tradition ii y acry ry ur urla lW way of obtaining them we cannot say bow many of the great facts wl which lich hilve made the tile enlightenment of ol 01 our age would have been lost but for books the first discovery of america wad wai forgotten and who halb say that but forb for books Doka the tb philosophy hi loso of copernicus Qa galileo lileo ampler kepler newton and bacon n aich hil h had ills revolutionized 04 1 lie dille the world N would V ou not have baya shared the die same fate where do lb the majority of mankind i le learn ara pf p these great facts not from gb observation but from book books so also ilso are learned for our bet benefit erit the grist lessons ons bf history y corns corn f bouklias bou kleas nations with the peoples who hayd learned to extract irom from the fainted printed ted paged the lore ore of ages an and the cont contrast rast will be to great that mo none na sh ni r dire to say buy that more is learned from observation than from books regarding the assertion we learn to do by bi doing the speaker eaid said 10 lo inor practice is not pot observation mr nephi And anderson ergon stated that the people of ibis this continent were tere able to tell tho iu habitants 8 who lived upon it centuries ag ago 0 by the ruins of dwellings and that we ke cap can in this way learn the history of countries without reading booke books when Mu magellan gellin contradicted the tile proposition that the earth was flat it was not by the application ofa of a book but by sailing around the earth A person cannot write and ind describe anything and make it as clear as us it would appear by alq seeing the object mr I 1 J holther stated that mans life is loo short to travel I 1 full over the world in order to learn when he can by the perusal p erusal of books learn as much by staying I 1 at home in the course of his re marks he stated that history can ein arver be learned only by books mr ba M hall beilig the last jut speaker summed u un tho arguments the 1 judges adges debited decided fix favor of the negative dative and the audience aidi aLdi ence were in lavor favor of the affirmative I 1 the discussion was lively livel yand and was wits one of the moat most interesting debates ever given the speakers brought up many good and ani is due them for 42 the e manner in which they the asselia tion to n critic mr B P critchlow gave apholt a short and witty report of 0 the proceedings sky lark was rend rendered ored in an artl atiq manner and andi was well received 0 day jy all present 1 after pray pry L D edwards asi the tho m meeting a adi odiorne ht orne ira tax or PY one week 1 I 1 VIXEN P jm UREE F baoy eol |