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Price $4.00 Per Year. THE VALUE t)Ff H1STOKY As Seen from tlie standpoint of a I Teacher- Geograpby Associated With noma no nistory-Too ZHany nates Should Hot Be memorised. ' ii It is a well known fact, that j in moBtdf our schools we do not get as good results from our history teaching as from some other studies, Just why it is is hard to say. Some very Doted authorities have reached the conclusion that we should leave out history entirely from our school course. They have come to this concUsioD, no doubt, judging from the almost barren results. It is also very true that much is taught which is not real history and was never in tended to be doled put to our pupils as history. We might atao eay that oar methods of teaching have not been the best. Our edacators, how- ever, are now advocating more his- tory and bitter ways of teaching it; and also of supplementing the course in history with a few months work in CivicB. We shall all a?ree that history is not a mere narration nf fflin thir nhrnnMnmV nrr hnt to know it. is to know Vvpnt in their true causes and connection to have onr ladment ATprr.iRpd fthorit th Haht. and wrnmr nf hn.n.n U tions as well 8 the seqaence l ot 'r- " O rv I events and to recogniz some pnnci - pies underlying the mere facts. His- tory is a record of . the doings and thoughts of the mce in past 8ges the evolution of man f rem a savage to a civilized being. It shows what men have been and thought in ages past. In teaching it, we shpnld not irivp, too mnch Tirnminencpto all the - -. j rr i wars and crimes taat have ever been committed by men but more con I cerning his home life; and every day affairs. I think bur text books make - i 1 t a mistake when they leave out man I as he is every day and picture him committing eome crime or engaging " 1-11 iflli in some OJOOay war. Ix CDuq liKesiior our tiuuuvrjr aau uh mauiuuuui, to study about a man. Lovea to . ; ! i - read of some noble man and his exs alted deeds. He can appreciate morp fnllv hia actions and under- stands them better.-. History teaefe- ing for young children should be biographical rather than historical, Rripa tnlfl ahont tirominent men in w w w w w y " - : ! I history, of their'early life and do- ings is of great interest to children, onr) mill nranavtk ftVlA XBtLV for a more UUl II til llVfUIV uv. j -.. Tj I Most of ns must necessarily ! be dependent on a texUbook, for we do not all have for reference the use Of a libxarv' We should not UBe our textsbooks too cloeely and depend on one writer's pinion for all that ; v. nniA M anKiaf Onr prts book should be read aloud, ex- io iu uc tarn uia a oifcivw. v - - aT1H mriA vivm interestihir before we reouire any of it to be learned as .... j - ., r,; m' .::. a lesson, xnen vy way ui. iyiuk cnnrPntraHon and 4efiniteness I to what we have taught, it is reason-J 1. 1 - i. .1 it tn.n f unfa am rrivan in the text to he memorized, copied out. thnncr, not of course to,i be learned by heart in the precise words m . of the book. ! We should teach some geography in connection with history, for these studies are Very closely allied , j It gives our pupils an Idea of the sur roundings, of a people and shpwt how they are effected by their en vironments. Map drawing is very good as it shows the pupils the places mentioned in the text aild this thus puts their imagination te in i.u ": i . ; . J i u ; . i . . 2 - ... . 1 C0NCOKD, work j In geography we learn of . . r r ivhuuimhq buu bci Uim oau inS Wlt& nature and sting, SlnK forlan existence. Thus to be effective geography and tistorr must go together. 80 many dates are given 4nT history - that it is very hard to determine just which ones we must teach and the ones to leave out. Some of ue. I think make a mistake in ; haying our pupi la learn too many dates, Some, however, we mu8t learn, These should be few and well chosen, but have them learned thnr.. ougnly. Dates are fixed points inland weave them into a continuous the memory around which Dther events should turn. The events and dates should go together and not learn one; apart from the other. One danger from learning too many dates is, that the pupil's idea of his, tory will be that it is nothiag more than a maea of dates. The pupil will forget the important things if we put too much stress on memorize ing dates. Tney will not take near all the facts about their ! historv Uay with them from school but if we haVe Uvcn theiii a taata and cta- ated a desire for historical reading, our labors will not be in vain. For if we once kindle that desire in the child for this historical riadine. I- -T I - I ' need only to direct and thej will C3oeriy do the rest The value of the teachings of his tory can hardly be estimated. It has an educational value that can be Bupplied by no other subjeot in the moral whole course of study. Its value is beyond computation. For who hs ' not been. stirred by f- its ex moles of moral heroism? The L . I lessons taught in history baye moved the deepest impulses of human na- ture and exerted a wide influence on the moral life of the race. We be- i i ! M come i more patriotic through its teachings. And our pupils are in- spired with a love and admiration if ' J. 1 I !i. I -i..' il ' ' not in a boaBtful spirit but a ration- al and ! f affectionate regard for the ooun try n which we have been born. It is also valuable in that it far- nishes ns a good basis of accurate and well arranged facts for! future use. But we might say that its chief value is. tnat it numanizes I us, makes more in touch and eympa thy with our fellow beings. We mii?ht verv ludiciouslv narrow all j i I history teaching, down to a study of the lives of great men. For in every age of history such men are found and as Carlisle well says, it is these great men who are the he- roes and they have shaped the course of history, j What they have Uvea, done and thoaght in an age has . , ; . been the history of that age. Might notsav this truthfully i ox the times in which Alexander, Css jar, I ,.-,,. f. Hapoleon, Liutner ana i asningwn Iiitrorl? Wa (Tflt mnre from biomnhv . y "t and learn more real nistory tnan m any other way. Bo if we do start thn lower grades with this kind of history , teaching it should not be discontinuea wxiea we reach' the h'gher classes. We wi i 1 be very much surprised when! we Ptndy history how, that in all agis it has clustered andjorgan- ized itself around great men s names. If history is thus to be taught as the 8 tory of the lives of reat men, it will' :yery naturally 'suggest the best plan to be used. That-is what is known1 as the "Topical Hetho." In, this way the boobit nofci (Mo wed N. 0., MONDAY, FEB 20, 1899 page by page, bat a well Belecttd i wpa io jivcu ur a irauu anu i-Yerj thing that cn be found about, this is learLed. By this p an the pupil soon understands that every tning that is to b said on a tubiect iinot found in a single book IThey will find that some writers eay one thing and some another. 1 Thus thitr judgment will be exercised and -they will learn to discriminate and think for themselves. The 'topics must be well selected and bear 'some reU- tion. As we go frem topic to topic it Will rot bp hard far n fn nnni narrative. I H ' " G . E. Petty. BURNED TO DEATH. 4.; Dwelling Catches On Fire at Early Honr-Jcnntt 11 organ Fer lshes in tUe Flames Almost All of the Household Property Xost. i ' . i I i At the hour of 6:15 o'clock this (Monday) morning the alarm of fire was heard i at No. 37. one of the' 'j ! s. - 1 houses a short dista- ce behind the. Pde11 m,ll8 wbicb dwellitJ w9 00 cnP;ed bv Mr. Jain es F. Morgan and family Pne of tbe children, with the ; P in lta hand, went into the cl6sefc to Ket something, and it is IL Ui. I lu" mm closet caught from the lamp. This is where the first of the fire was ' i ' i ' Til - seen. i i - . - Qaickly the alarm was given out that the house was burning, but at that time the inner part of the house was well on fire. LI. Jennie, the 4$ y earmold daughter, was in her bed upstairs j ist over the closet. But she never realized the situation! as it is not likely that she even woke up. An attempt was made to rescue her from the room, but the men were amen oac oy tne ourning fire. - H The fire companies could not get there in time to render any assisU ance. neitner wouia tne nose irom the Odell mills reach to the Dlace. Aesistance was rendered by all there about, but with only buokets the oould not be checked. The house burned te the ground. Scarcely any. furniture jor household goods were saved, it being almost a total loss to Mr. Morgan: The dwelling, which belonged to the Odell Manufacturing pe.f was in sured in the Southern Stock Mutual, of Greensboro. Horrible was the scene witnessed when the body of thej girl, Jennie Morgan, was taken from the ashes. Her body j was merely a form of charred mattor. The funeral will be conduoted Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock by her pastor, Rev. J D Arnold, after; which the remains will be laid in the city cemetery. Fresh Lot OF FINE CAKES AND CANDIES have just come, id, so now you just come in and see them. 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They aro inadv on i he newest lasts. Drop in ar'l pee thorn. I CO thousand more or lass night of j the anything in the time. we will make hun m Thin PARKS cfoMars Away. 'A I . i I. .! '.I :: w ) I. : 'i .1 . I, Y 1
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