Show INSTITUTE an was held yesterday the regular morning exercised music was conducted by mr geo ferrin mr ferrin blows a thorough knowledge ot the subject of music and firm ability as an instructor in that line abe cauree of eludy and various basks belonging to the course occupied ibo remainder of the forenoon and extended far into the alvernoon alter noon eee sion the work that is being done in this line will be of great value to all the it will have a tendency to produce uniform throughout the county I 1 ond give the teachers a great incentive to seek for thorough practical results when the subject of number is introduced into these d the intellectual atmosphere begins to take on a stormy appearance and a slightly discordant tone is observable the trouble seems to be that not all the teachers have been led to see the good qualities in the new method of a arithmetic leaching mr miller took up his regular after noan work devoting most 0 his time to the books adopted AS texts in re adine A ahre hum att of boobs were handled in a masterly manner and many thoughts on teaching the sub eject the forming of school libraries and plans to adopt for obtaining them was treated at considerable length daring this discussion the question 0 uniformity arose and many teachers took part in ita consideration the question raised is whether the teachers shall be allo weil great freedom in the selection ot books or whether all the schools of the county should use the same books from the list of works adopted some rued that a wide choice would tend to destroy uniformity and others that it would be better to sacrifice uniformity to bome extent for i therod of the scholars A leading feature of the day was the development of a reading lesson from science work by miss annie fairell the material used was a number ot house plants and vegetables the way in which the lesson was conducted would make it of immense interest to children and besides furnishing them with a leson of superior quality would leach valuable lessons in botany and the use of plants all the essential parts of a plant were brought out in such a way to be easily understood by any child then the uses of each part were dwelt upon miss farrell is known of the leading primary teachers of the county and the work that she has done s aaka better for her than words can through a misunderstanding mis science lesson was crowded out much to the regret of all miss petersons ability is well understood and all are much benefited by listening to what sho has ti say |