The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-01-11

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A LOOK AT THE QUALIFICATION
! w OF TEACHERS. H ,|1a
Its quite a mistake, that the man 0
lady, who can read like the parrot talks
write a legible hand, "do he sum" nth
Arithmetic, is quilted to take the charg
of primary school, He should under
stand the rudimentS of everything h
proposes to teach. He should under
stand the power Of each letter in the al
| phabet, the relations and dependencies 0
the letters, and the laws Of SyllabiGcd
tion. Alta glance, he should not only b,
able to read the form and use of thr
Points used in punctuation, but be abl
to punctuate accurately and explain TO tht
child'S comprehension the uses, and tht
modulations of voice which they require
No person is fit to teach Arithmetic, who
cannot demonstrate the rule which he
uses ;-be able to show to thepupil s per
ceptions, the reasons oOhy he adds, sub
tracts, ETC. Every child when he enter,
the school room is an unSophisficated PHI,
losopher. lie wants to know the nature
and reason of things. Having a ques.
ton in the Square Root to solve, and you
tell him to do it SO and so, he will wan
to know, unless you have beaten him in
to stupidity, aoly, he. must separate the
number whose root is 10 be extracted into
periods oftwo places each--ichy he mus
commence the extracting at the left hand
period, etc. Such pupil of Nature
mould will want to know Uhy, in a ques.
ton involving proportion, you multiply
the second and third terms together, and
divide The product by the first and when
this is done, ho'c it comes that this quo.
tient will be the fourth term, or daSWer
sought. Now. the teacher who cannot
demonstrate all this, so that the child can
SEE into it. and all through it, and then
laugh for joy, is really unfit for his busi-
ness, and is worse than a nuisance in the
school room. Unless the teacher can ex-
plain those things, the child gets bewil-
dered, discouraged he no longer tries to
reason, and you only get him along by
dint of birch. Your pupil, whose intel
lect was beautifully developing, is injured
by quack literary notifications, and he
degenerates into the mere automaton. -
Taken at this point, it will be far more
difficult for tcorkman to educate him
than the child green from the nursery
This is as clear as a sun beam. What fol
ly then, to hire a quack teacher, because
you must have somebody to teach, when
you consider that the only thing such a
pedagogue does for your child is to stupi'
fly him--blunt his perceptions, and de,
stroy his powers of ratiocination! Bet
ter have no doctor than one who Kills his
patient; or whose nostrums, in the cura.
tive process, destroy the uiS Uitae oi
mans frame. Better have no teachers
than such intellectual dolts, whose men.
tai opiates and anodynes, convert a
sprighhy andinquisitive youth, who wants
to understand everything around him, in
to lounger, who hates books, but loves
nine pin alleys, and gin shops. #
The pupils attempts at reasoning, his in
quisitiveness intense desires to see
into every thing about him, ought not on
Iy to be INDUCED, but should be dram
out. For this purpose, the teacher should
open up the abStruSitieS of his lesson,
call his attention to something aeU, that
occurs in the routine of his study +; until
his mental faculties are so energized that
he thinks with case, and the reasoning
process becomes source of pleasure. -
Experienced teachers recommend the in.
PRODUCTION of "Object Lessons as a
part of the daily exercises of school, it be
ing most felicitous method of educiag
mind and stimulating dull pupils. Such
teachers as read the " Journal of Educa-
tion,' will understand what we mean by
"Object Lessons, without our taking up
space now toexplain. That teacher who
follows the method of instruction indica-
ted in the foregoing remarks, will find the
government of a school easy, his pupils
attentive and capable, his own labors no
longer irksome but pleasing, the commu-
nifty where he tolls, satisfied, and himself
uoNoRED as a Socrates, the streams Of
of whose philosophy water into life and
happiness, the little immortals, who will
soon be woven into the web of our Re-
publican fabric.
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