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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1886
Page
8
A wide excerpt covers education theory on language and reading progress, school discipline, and administrative matters. It includes notes on uniform gradation, school libraries, teacher authority, and the use of suspensions. Also featured are early reading methods stressing word recognition through extensive reading, and a mix of humorous anecdotes, proverbs, and social scenes from a community newspaper.
The program for the Southeast Dickinson teachers institute at the Tennessee school house near Dillon lists sessions on reading, arithmetic, composition, and teaching methods led by instructors such as Cora Jewry W H Wagoner H E Arkers J J Sawtell Miss Jensie Weller Miss Mena Zisch and Miss Emms Sawtell. An exchange note claims Kansas is prolific with a tale of a man finding twenty dollar gold pieces twins calves a colt and nine kittens after his wife’s blessing.
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