Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-08-09
WHOLE NO 22a MEARFIEID Pa WEDNESDAY AUGUST O. 1871

educational interests of the county
May they never become woaried In
well doing, but continue on In this
good and noble work. feel justified,
however, in onumerating a few mis-.
takes. lst. Paying the unqualified the
same as tho qualified teacher. Such
a course is paying premium on igno.
rance. 1t prevents the live teacher
from raising and removes the neces.
sity of the illiterato to make further
advancement. I'd. Tho employment
sometimes Of inferior teachers, because
they are relatives or friends. How.
ever much this may be practiced
throughout tho country, at the present
day, in other avocations, Directors
should never introduce IL into our
common schools; and he who does,
acts from base motive, and should
receive the censure of all good men,
1t is your duties, as the guardians of
the children in your district, to en-
ploy the very best disciplined minds
10 mould and instruct the rising
generation, whether relative, friend or
foe.
Course Of Sudy.-It affords me
much pleasure to state that tho Di-
rectors of a number of districts have
at last consented to adopt course OF
study, to be used only as an outline,
for the teachers guidance. Much
valuable time has already been wasted
by allowing children 10 study such
branches only as their immature minds
dictated. In many cases children have
refused TO study more than q single
branch, for several successive terms,
hence oil the other fundamental
branches were neglected. Directors
are, to q greater or less degree, re-
sponsible for the intellectual growth
of the children in their respective
communities therefore, this impor.
tant subject should receive their spc-
cial attention. No profession or call
ing can be successfully carried on
without correct method.
More Haste than Progress. There
is an excessive desire on the mart NJ
some nnn;ls noronts and avon soma
teachers, for the fifth reader. In some
eases scholars, who should be in the
third, or at the highest in the fourth,
were using tho fifth; and when we
suggested that they should be nut
into the third or fourth thew were ali.
sometimes, highly offended. Why
not be displcased. also. with the mas.
ter carpenter or stonemason because
they will not put their apprentices
upon the incest and neatost work until
they have acquired skill in the use of
tools? The same difficulty pertains
to other studies. cspeciallv arithmetic
a.a seography. L can see no practi.
cal sense or use for scholars TO take
the fifth reader before thew have mas.
tered the third or to be helped through
arithmetic and geography without a
knowledge of the first principles.
The time has arrived when the educa.
tion of children should be Judged not
by the number of books passed over, or
by what they cannot tell, rs is now the
case but BY WHAT THEY CAN TELL.
District ,Superint,ndencv - When.
ever and vhercver Directors have nm.
no;n,ed a nrac,ical teacher or one
Who has had great deal of exporience
in visiting schools il ia always at.
tended with beneficial results There
ia ne mncb nb;losonbv bowover in
toochc crs ;notruc,;ng onr merchants
how and tho hind of goods IN nurcbasc
our s;Iveram;ths how IN renair watches
onr don,;s,s now N extroct natural
or insert ar,;8c;a, teeth our farmors
Iow A. an ,ha so;I 10 as thore Ia In
that class of mon to instruct teachers
how to teach, unless they arc them.
selves practical teachers of the mod.
crn school. A Director's visit. In
mosi cases cannot be of nnv mora
nron,,coi Ionoet 10 schooi thon n
r;s;, from ony o,hor c;,;zen II SCANS
~ w. ,horosauo ,Lo, ,ha TINA IL a.,
s.nd , ,,hon 40 shonId hara n ,nore
,Ia'.h auu mho W. w., so s,ou,;,;on Th;saan
tno,ousn ool ,',snoJ u'sJ'SuP,, ,i,a n;n.o,nr0 ar
70 a.SonP ! P'Ia.u .I ~ u"o ,nna,aJ D.Ss ,a."
pom"E ;s,r;o, suo'Uusny s"pssr;yy,andon, whose
Az, 10 .I,II sh"I, Sov.v So !" u;s;. ~" schoo,s
oncs @ a month or oftencr' ass;st in Cha.
sif;ca.ion course of studv. best methods
of nromnt;nv Tho nrogross of tho
schools Gc A County Sunerinton.
dont cannot in this county travel
over one thousand one hundred and
ninety SQUARE miles and visit moro
than once III is scarcely nossiblo for
him IN do oven this much devot;ng
Tho nroner tina m zach : ono hnndre3
and sixty.one schools ia four months.
prom;,,,;o,s Twen,vs;x nrbl;c
and ,wo,ra nr;v.,o sxoo;n.,;ons wors
hoid One profsss;ona, and one hnn.
drod a nd sav ,wn nrov;s;onoI cort;6
cates ware Granted and twelve on.
dorsod fror, othor corn,;os Sovent :,
D;roo,or. and = loroo nnmhor ~ iii.
vons woro nrssent Tbov seomod IN