Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-06-01
4-N g. Journal of Education.

~ g. Journal Of Education. 81.
would especially urge that you ask OIL male and
female if they take the North-C Carolina journal OF
Education; and where teachers of experience are
found to be without this or any other educational
periodical, or any work on the subject OF teaching
wholly negecting such means of improvement, that
they be examined with the most critical care, and
with the least allowance for deficiencies
It is the manifest duty Of all persons following
occupations in which others are interested, to use
all the means within their reach to qualify them
selves for their vocation and as it has been con-
slant subject of complaint that many common school
teachers for the want of means of knowing better,
or from other causes do not readily abandon bad
habits or acquire more enlarged ideas OF the duties
of their calling they should whenever is 1t pract.-
cable, be forced into positions where without hard
ship or any burdensome expense they VIII at least
be in the way of improvement
They owe it to their own Characters, and to the
public deeply interested in their characters to avail
themselves of all such means as they can well afford.
to gain information necessary to the faithful ana
useful discharge of their dutes and to be unwIll-
ing to spare a single dollar for such purpose ar
CUES narrowness of vision, or an indifference to
the sacred obligations of the teacher whlch the
public should know, and which shouio meet Win
your unqualified disapprobation."
5,-Common School Register.
The Common SCtlOOl RcSlStCI 10 nv" " WV i'esio'
of all or most of the chairmen of the State.
This is a new feature in our schools, and at first
will cause some difficulty; but the chief objection
to it will he found in the incapacity or want OF dill
oence on the mart of those whose business it is to
fill the blanks
regret to have to admit that there are not few
teachers who would oppose any regulation Whleh
required them to use that ordinary care, ana SUD-
iected them to that feeling Of responsibility to the
aynantpd all other
pants of public trusts.
It is hoped however, that the great majority are
actuated by a more enlightened and just sense OF
their duties, and that they will be pleased with an
opportunity of showing by public record an evil
dence of their industry and fidelity.
The Register contains full and plain instructions
as to the manner in which it is to be kept, and the
labor of filling the blanks is very light while, to be
able to fill them correctly, requires daily attention
to the progress of each scholar, one of the most
natural elementary and Indispensable duties OF eve
nv teacher in every class of schools.
To endeavor to understand this Register and to
keep upon its pages proper record, Will DC pleas
ing recreation to the dligent and careful and it will
tend to form better habits in those who are differ
emily inclined.
1T will be test of the fidelity, the capacity and
the industry of teachers-wili acsns'om them TO
feelings of responsibility and habits Of order and
care and though it may be clumsily kept IN many
instances it will inevitably exercise in every case,
wholesome influence on those whose business it is
to complete the record. Its effect upon the pupils
can but be, in the MAN, of beneficial character,
and it will he instructing and useful to parents, TO
the school officers and to the public
desire, therefore, respectfully to request and
urge vou as far as possible, to comply with the
requirements of the law on this subject; and as 1t
is easier to form good habits in commencing an en-
terprise, than to correct bad ones after careless
beginning let us use our best efforts to start right
in this important improvement
know that there is trouble involved in this re-
form, but permit me kindly to remind You that the
less ability or disposition teachers have to make
record of the manner in which they discharge their
duties, the greater the necessity for work OF this
kind.
1t is time for them to begin to keep accounts, and
if they cannot make handsome record they can at
least endeavor to learn by making the attempt.
Where these attempts are awkwardly made, the
pages of the Register may not present creditabe
appearance nevertheless good will be done, for the
teacher will have undergone wholesome exercise,
and he and the public will better understand his ca
pacity.
Let us, therefore, look all the difficulties connect
ed with this new attempt calmly in the face, and let
us remember that there are obstacles in the way of
every useful enterprise, and that while they grow
continually in numbers and importance before
tmid policy, they are best avoided by meeting and
overcoming them with prudence, patience and en-
ergy.
6.-7eachers Halls.
"A great drawback to your usefulness is the want
of fixed and suitable place in which to conduct
Your examinations. 49,,
On this account. and for other reasons to which
need not here aude, l desire to see Teachers Hall
erected in every county; and if spared l intend to
Law before the public at early day. and to press
certain views which l have on this subject, and
which deem of great Importance.
Suffice it to say now that hope, if spared to
see, in the course of few years, neat and commo
dous edice in every county, erected for the use OF
the officers and teachers of common schools, furn-
ishing convenient place for your examinations, for
meetings of teachers for public lectures on educa-
ton, for county libraries and cabinets of minerals
and fossils and affording evidence impressive and
substantial of the existnce and progress OF the
great interest of the State her common school sys-
tem./
Assuring you of my continued sympathy, and
constant and anxious desire to cooperate with you
| in efforts to elevate the standard of teachers,
am, with much respect,
Your friend and fellow laborer.
-. H. WILEY, :
| SuD Conn., Schools for the State. I