p. 29 | Educational Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 3, 1908

Educational Notes

PROF. C. SORENSON, principal of Keene Academy, writes: “The school, including the different industries, has made a gain of over four thousand seven hundred dollars this past year. While, of course, we do not have all that money in the bank, yet the board feels encouraged to make some improvements in the equipment of the school for the coming year.”

On account of the resignation of Prof. A. W. Spaulding as principal of Bethel Academy, at Bethel, Wis., Prof. Paul Scheppler has been chosen to act in that capacity. Professor Scheppler has been connected for years with the work of the Bethel Academy, and is well qualified to carry out its purposes. Professor Spaulding is leaving to engage in educational work in the South.

Reference was made some time ago to the call for teachers for the Spanish field. Sister Ellen B. Fattebert, 2a de Maltos, No. 3, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, is desirous of corresponding with persons who are willing to go to Mexico to connect with the teaching work there. This is a needy field, and there is an excellent opportunity for an important work to be done in teaching.

Profound learning can never take the place of familiar and every-day contact with men and women. To move the world we must know the world. To influence men and women we must appreciate their condition and be in some sense familiar with the things in which they are interested. It is only in this way that learning can have its rightful influence over the lay mind.—United Presbyterian.

We wish to call the attention of our people, particularly our teachers, to the Church-School Manual, which has recently been issued by the Pacific Press. This book contains outlines of courses, suggestions with reference to text-books, methods of teaching, the principles underlying our school work, etc., and is very comprehensive in the study of the whole general subject of Christian education. It should be in every Seventh-day Adventist home.

In response to the invitation of the Department of Education at a meeting held at Cleveland, Ohio, Brother Gerard Gerritsen is making arrangements with the Walla Walla College Press to publish a musical journal. This musical journal will be published monthly, as now planned, and will contain a series of lessons to be used in our schools throughout the year. Further definite announcement with reference to this proposed journal will be made later.