Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-06-08

20 In the morning and come away at eleven
or at noon, and 60 again in the afternoon,
and come away after two or th5 -
Some young people hate this - T.
like it tolerably well. propose tc-.
some information which shall make iss1eosss ( (
agreeable all round.
My first rule Is, that you accept the
situation. Perhaps you do not knov1 what
that means. 1t means that, as you are at
school, whether you really ~ gong or
not, you determine to make tue very best
you can of it, and that you DO not make
yourself and everybody else wretched by
su!king and grumbling about it,-and
wishing school was done,-and wondering
why your fathers send you there-and
asking leave to look at the clock in the
other room, and so on.
Now here you are at school, will say,
for three hours. Accept the situation like
a man or a woman, and do not sulk like
fool.
To make the whole thing thoroughly at
tractive, to make the time pass quickly
and to have school life natural part of
your other life, my second rule is, do what
you do vita all your might. 1t is a good
rule in anything; in sleeping, in playing,
or in whatever you have in hand. But
nothing tends to make school time pass
quicker; and the great point, as 1 will
acknowledge, is to get through with the
school hours as quickly as we fairly can.
Now if in written arithmetic. for in
stance, you will start instantly on the sum.
as soon as they are given out; if you will
bear hard on the pencil, so as to make clear
white marks, instead of greasy, fabby,
pale ones on the slate if you will rule
the columns for the answers as carefully
as if it were bank ledger you were rul-
ing, or if you will wash the slate so COM
pletely that no vestige of old work is there,
you will find that the mere energy of man.
ner infuses spirit and correctness into the
thing done.
Lessons are set for average boys at
school,-boys of the average laziness. If
you really 60 to work with all your might,
then you get great deal of loose time,
which. in general, you can apply to that
standing nuisance, the evening lesson
Sometimes, l know, this is prohibited
When it is, the good boys and quick boys
have to learn how to waste their extra
time, which seems to be pity. But with
sensible master, it is thing understood,
| that it is better for boys or girls to study
hard while they study, and never learn to
dawdle. Taking it for granted that you
are in the hands of such masters or mis-
tresses, will take it for granted that,
when you have learned the school lesson,
there will be no objection to your next
learning the other lesson, which lazier boys
will have to carry home.
Lastly, you-will find you gain great
deal by giving to the school lesson all the
color and light which every day affairs can
lend TO it. Do not let it be a CHASTITY
skeleton in a closet, but let it come as far
as it will into daily life. When you read
in Colburn's Oral Arithmetic, that man
bought mutt at six cents pound, and
beef at seven,' ask your mother what she
pays pound now, and do the sum with
the figures changed. When it is your turn
to speak, do not be satisfied with a piece
from the Speaker that all the boys have
heard a hundred times; but get something
out of the Tribune, or the Companion, OF
from the new Tennyson at home.
My dear children, l see hundreds oi
boys who can tell me what is thirteen.
seventeenths of two-elevenths of five time:
one-half of a bushel of wheat, stated IL
pecks, quarts and pints; and yet, L showed
them grain of wheat, and grain of un
hulled rice, and a grain of barley, the!
would not know which was which. Trl
not to let your school life sweep you WHOLLY
away from the home life of every day =
Rec. E. e. Hale, ia TIE Youth,s Conpa1l
ion.