The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-22
TFrom the Ohio Educational Monthly.
National Normal School.

of a few facts in regard to the schoo
may be of interest to many Of you
readers. 1 feel 80 much encourag
ed by the increasing report of the
high success which has almost in
variably attended the labors of the
teachers who have gone out from US
in carrying out the plans of school
management obtained here, that
can not repress the desire to give
these facts publicity through
| your widely circulated journal.
A new era is surely dawning in
our schools. The days of suspicion
and force are passing away. Thous,
ands of our trained teachers are
successfully practising "the better
way" I believe-I know-that ii
is worse than useless-it is absurd
to try to compel children or any
body else to do right. I believe
know-that there are resources
enough in the human soul and out
of il to make study attractive, the
school a joy, and the school room a
paradise. l believe-I knOw-that
the large majority of sensible YOotlg
teachers can learn how to make
these resources available, and thus
to govern their schools without re-
sorting to coercion in any form, and
especially in trying to compel child
rem to be diligent and weIl-behaved.
Instead of compulsiOn being neces-
sary to secure regular attendance in
a good school, children will have to
be compelled to stay away from it.
This fact is reported in many in
stances.
Now our Normal School claims
to be managed on just such princi-
ples, and thus is enabled to impart
so much power and enthusiasm to
the majority of its pupil teachers
that they can manage their schools
without corporal punishment OF
other means of coercion. The larg-
er number of the multitude that
have been trained here mot less in
the aggregate than 10000, report
this year, more than any previous
year, the highest success in relying
entirely on the resources Of attrac
ton and the normal methods and
plans of making these resources ef'
fective, in excitinga higher and
more persistent degree of energy il
study and good will toward theil
schools, than they have ever before
known. Each one of hundreds is
flattering himself or herself that his
own or her own is the best and
most delightful school in existence
"a very healthful and excusablt
condition of mind, all teachers viii.
admit.
We do not believe in the dogma
asserted with so much JUNCTION by
some of the State normal schools
that "8as5mis8ton to 0uthorityiS
necessary part Of q yoeng teacher,
training." We do not practise any
such domination here as this dogms
would require, nor do we believe i
necessary in any school unless it be
a reform school. Nor do our pupil
teachers go out with the idea tina
submission to their authority is th'
main thing to be attained in theil
schools. 1 do believe in a highel
law than that of physical force, anC
every years experience in the train
ing of teachers, with their increas
ing success, confirms me in the cor
rectness of my position and the at
tainableness of these ends, and en-
courages us all in our efforts to make
our school, nurseries of goodness an(
love, rather than prison house
whose only joy is that Of release.
Large numbers of teachers, WHIT
had spent a term or more with US
and have had excellent success il
the practice of normal methods
have returned this term to prosecute
their preparation for more thorough
work and higher positions in thei
| profession. Many have induced
their friends or pupils to return
with them. Our present daily at
tendance is over 500 pupils, Will
the entire annual enrolment 70
FIVE terms will exceed 1 800 differ
ent pupils. Our coming six weeks
term promises to be the largest in
stitute ever held in this country
We are making suitable arrange
ments to accommodate all VIII
come.
We shall this year bestow NOR
time and attention than ever before
upon school management-on prin
ciples of attraction rather than fore
and we hope to infuse the tru
spirit into many who shall visit us
as well as to gather from them re
newed energy for the prosecution {
our common work. We shall ais
sustain a wide range of class instruC
ton in all the common branche,
and in many Of the higher branche
for all who desire to study or review
f Very truly, your fellow Iaborer,
A HOTRROOK-
Lebanon, o., May II, 1871.
, Robert Toombs is still making red b,
speeches in the South. A recent one
Augusta, Ca, he closed in this style
'sWhen you can tear the live thund
? from its home in the burning ether an
bind it a captive at the footstool of t.