Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-03-27

many things they would not do, if
there was no requirement urged often.
We can all remember how it was
with ourselves when boys. We did
not see the Importance of work as we
see it now How can the teacher be
at every home and urge out each
scholar in the cold and damp morn
|ings What system of rewards and
punishments do you wish him to adopt
to secure attendance? Surely not
any. But there does need to be
reminder sometimes, just as there
does to fill the woodbox at home, OF
to do something else the child does
not like to do so well as he likes to
bring in wood. These calls for pa
rental admonition are things to be en-
dured and performed patiently by us,
for children are but children and may
be neglectful even if they mean to do
well. But this negligence about at
tending school needs to be looked up.
There is an untold loss here
Another thing needing remedy is the
frequent change of studies. What
boy will not get out of tough row
if he can, and let SOMEBODY else hoe
it, while he will work about a little
where there are no weeds? He would
hardly be boy if he did not shirk a
little, for he is growing and feels
weak, and a want of energy. Neither
pling with difficulties, as necessity
to spur him. just so in school when
the hard study comes, as come it must
in any subject, even the spelling book,
he will conclude the easiest way is to
let it alone. So he will throw it up,
and if the teacher put him up he will
consult those at home whom he thinks
the authorities in the matter, and see
if he may not give the study. The
habit of lodging from one study to
another in our schools is great de-
triment. Again we need more ex-
perience and dignity in the business
of teaching. What parent is not
often at his wits end to adopt the
best means to secure the beet results
J with the few children at his home
! What perplexity, then, must there be
where 40 children are collected, hay
ing SO unlike dispositions and train
ing, as we find in MANY schools ? 1t
, needs tact to manage, but above all
, the tact Of a devoted experience
! School teaching is study and science
! as noble and difficult as any that can
: be formed 1t should not be left to
, the inexperienced and to noyices.--
, But we should see to it that we ell
courage men and women to follow il
! as a profession. Get a good teacher
and keep the same. If more pay is
required then give it,-by having less
! school, if that is the only way to gel
= it.
What sort of building would YOU
, get by employing 20 different master
workmen to put it up? But you EN-
;, plOy as many to rear the more valuable
. intellectual ediice for your children
y Visit and counsel with the teacher
= not to angrily find fault, or tell hin
. your representations about certain
= scholars, or to hastily decide upoI
= the measures he adopts, but to sug
: gest Improvements and encourage
thinue thot ORC vyou- TLu Il. oS -.
- schools | taught, hardly knew wheth
. er | was answering the expectation
! people ought to have Of me, or not
. School teaching is a very compile.
y business. 1t requires large expert
ence for the teacher to see for him
> self whether he is filling all the point
=. of a fair pattern. Any parent o
! patron, can without meddltng wit
- the school at all, make suggestion
'. that shall be of immense value to
y teacher.
Three things would recommend
. LIST. That all the schools for tn
- town begin at the same time, thei
~ summer and winter terms. | woul
~ mention the 18th of May end MOI
-. day. as a favorable day. Then tt
w teachers can all be brought to publ
", ", examinations, and it is hoped tt
- patrons would then attend these e.
y: aminations. The schools would the
40 have II weeks time before Angus
~, This for the summer terms; for Il
IN winter, the Monday after Thanksgi
~ ing ought to be the time.
'n End. | would recommend syste
IS of weekly or bi-weekly report
~ blanks printed, be made in tt
~ schools, of every scholar, to the pare
'at or guardian; that the absences al
studies and advancement, &c, of ca
- one be noted. These reports a
-, :" matters of great interest both
ho scholars and parents where they a
ast rightly managed.
-: 3rd. That there be committee
~ the district required to make 1t the
l business to be acquainted with t
aa nv advancement and studies of ca
I I'o scholar, and to advise in regard
nf classes and changes of study, and
,on like, that these things be not left
,nr the within Of pupil or teacher, or tt
80 this be committed to the Superintel
wo ent especially, so that his advice sh
w. W. be more authoritative than the Ii
49, makes it.
w | would made one suggest
,on which is that system of competit
49, examinations between the schoC
,an before the Superintendent or a &C
y mittee of one from each district,
" adoDted. especially with regard to