Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-01-14

Is'Ha uAs,l,i Ir,-rirli,1.
a PtAaaslHs's RHpsFieaca-stFa fssn =
feasAeT's Dlsgys-ae. 4.
~ T. WitsoL
W ol1eltioa Faorive4 u tho State u Nss
loFE b he yoAf 1888, NJ flihof and hmily
moved . Ohio ahoF Ehlch | attended 1chool,
moFo . b Uith ny eompaalans han any thing
Slle. We hsd olf dine; yox,d and b5lhsFed
our teacher. poor itliOE; bot Re Onioyed oar.
selves he lst Us hIgO b0yshnd giill Do lboul
q We pleased By the parsussiOa d my htheF
and friends, IN 1857, engaged 70 teach the
school h Uhleh hld hsinod % bother he loaoh.
e., only ne VlatsF bsIoR ThO query 70 ne
Ras how J vas % mAnago ald g0toFh thos0
teholahL was . friend q ofioF and thoaght
ihAt lltts o. 10 god eogld b dons In school
without Il Nam lines ala ! Wish b ny oNn
mind thAiI had not Ongagrd 70 teach, but Mon.
day mofuiag eliaN and comm leod ny school
Eaa detsFmihOd 70 have otd1f I bid down
my rules, and told my scholars hat they must
6bey them Tho larger scholars did nol relish
ny rules Of e0uras, Zoe they had been IN ire
habit Of doing as they pleased, and expected
much fun when one Of their number vas 70
teach them; but BY The help 81 the rod and
pSrsvuFenee, kept order and got along very
well for sometime. Some Of tho large scholars
ghO thought me TOO much Of tyrlnt, but dare
not rebel, leo The school. This did not like,
bll thought could not help Il Reason and
persuasion ! did not think Of using. The
people aid that was doing well and praised
my good order n school, aud The pFOheieh-
ey my scholars we're making. But ] bad
sOme triAls-One scholar, an IgnoFaht auey
girl, large enough 20 DO 4 young Ady.-
An teachers know that one bad scholar makes
the Others much worse than they would be-
She concluded 70 have her own way; she
thought herself very smart. One day reprov.
Cd her lightly for some offence; that she did not
like, and she came At mo with 4 stool drawn 70
strike inc, and Ia wrenehing the stool out other
hands, her comb iell out, her hair came doN n,
and she screamed and 5WOre, and with eF hair
over her face, she looked terribly. When told
her 10 stop her noise she eun'cd me. Never
was pOOf pedagogue worse beset than ! was
with her. Her disOrdVFed hair and angry coun.
lenAnCe was enough 70 fIightsn almost any one.
What was 10 be done did not know; tried my
best 70 persuade her to stop, but she only made
the more noise applied my friend, the rod,
aud She soon huShed. When school was dis.
missed in the evening she went home in 4 rage;
she would have me turned out, that she would.
The next morning was waited upon by the
School Directors; the gill was present, and told
/ her tale and hard oneit was Amer investiga-
tl0n, the DlFeevUTn una ~ ,.i tf .a s0tld not
obey the rules Of school, she must stay 1t home.
They only blamed me for not Furnishing her
more severe | had no more difficulty, but got
along finely. In the spring closed my school
had done my best, and gave general satishe.
ton. Many said II was tho best school ever
taught there; but success or no success, re.
solved never to teach any more. | was young,
and did not wish to be confined in school room;
there was not satisfied. There was something
In teaching ! did not understand Such /
course as nildneSs and reason in school knew
nothing Of, bat the rod must keep al straight
Children should be treated like reasonable be.
ingS, not like brutes School officers and teach.
ers arc beginning to reason and act on this i'm.
Iportant matter, and many Of our schools arc
governed by nidneSS persuasion, perSever.
ance and reason, which have found by ex.
lperience, to be tho only true method Of
governing schools But after all my reso-
buttons, the next ial found me in school d
u scholars the ilfst day, aud ia the forenoon
there was nought but confusion. The hi.
rector who employed me said the school
would average only from twenty to twenty-five,
but he promised if tue school averaged more,
to pay me more wages il kept order; but said
must be careful or the scholars would carry
me out as they had done with teachers previous
told him the law was en- my side. He said
the school had always been in 4 muss. Dor
rowed his bird's-eye maple rule, a large one,
and started for the school room. Here was a
predicament What was to do! Ny tirsl
thoughts were: will 60 home; my next were,
will try two or three days to get the good will
Of the scholars, and il could not, then would
go home. As these thoughts were revolving in
my mind, | saw at the left Of me, grove, to
which went and cut seventeen blue beech
switches, and with them on my shoulder and
the rule under my arm, thus equipped, | went
to the school room. The scholars looked at me
surprised; some sneerGd. Trimmed my rods
and toughened them in the embers, then called
school, made short speech, telling the schoI.
airs that knew all about them; had come To
teach them, and should do so; they would find
me ready TO assist them in their studies, but or.
der must have; they could not learn without
order, and to have order must have rules, and
those rules must be obeyed, and an who disc.
beyed my rules should punish, etc. Ny rules
were few but necessary. commenced very Sc.
we're. While the first class was recitng they
began to violate the rules whipped twenty
i've that afternoon, and Whipped them severe.
lly. This was getting the good wills of the
scholars with vengeance. The Director told
me that he heard one Of the boys say as he was
going home fromschoOl "the teaeherhad as leave
kill US as not had good order in my school
and whipped no more; itseemed to me that they
all tried 70 see how well they could do, and who
could do best. taught one month more than
the first agreement and they paid me three dol.
lars per month extra, as the school averaged 40
scholars in daily attendance. This school was
in good neighborhOod, have not been there
since; liked teaching better when could