EMINENT EDUCATIONIST.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19257, 22 August 1924, Page 8

EMINENT EDUCATIONIST.

PROFESSOR ADAMS AT CHRISTCHURCH. ADDRESS AT TRAINING COLLEGE. IPeb United Phess Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, August 21. In an address to-day to Training College students, Professor Adams, the eminent educationalist, said H w-as a great mistake in education to strive after the discursive and objective point of view in observation, for people were very apt to be led away by the varying opinions of others from time to time.. He suggested the device of a new instrument something like a thermometer. “1 would call it a phrenometor,” he said. “It could be used with advantage in ordinary teaching in schools. I would call tho lower scale like the freeing point in the thermometer the observation zone—tho state of things where rea.sni) is unnecessary and happenings are instinctively deduced from facts. The highest zone, like the boiling point in the thermometer, I would call tho gaping zone. When yon have reached the gaping point the question is what to do. The answer is ‘gape.’ In real life, and very often in teaching, we come to the gaping point. Teachers mint be careful to observe the gaping point ;ti pupils. If you are dealing with a class when ideas have vanished, change the subject and come back to it when ideas have come to you. liy loa-vincf the subject and coming back on it with a fresh mind often the subject is comprehended in a flash.”