Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1873-03-20
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VISIT Your Schools! go There often,
spendipg-ss you eau spare the tlme-a
lev hours, or the whole afternoon and zee
Tor yourselves, bow your children are
managed See whether they arc progress.
sing sufficiently with their studies, see
what books they need and try and pro-
sure them. Never grudge a few dollars
spent for books, but remember that you
are building up the future character. and
happiness ofyour cbildren's whole life that
they are living away the precious years
Of that life time steadily and surely, n
after another, and that II is theirjust due,
that each day Of these swiftly fleeing
years is lived in the best possible manner ;
and as their relatives and guardians it is
your duty to see that they live usefully
each day Of their minority, while YOU
are responsible for their correct training,
70 that they may build up themselves,
mentally, morally, and physically, in tho
way that shall best developc their highest
and truest nature. You carefully oversee
the workmen in your shops, the clerks at
your counter, the help upon your farm,
fhe cook in your kitchens, but leave your
children the very life blood of your
hearts, the perpetrators of your names
honor and fame to the care of a stranger :
letting that stranger impress bis views
and opinions his idiosync,asies and Pc
euliarrties upon the young and growing
mind, and mould the expanding intellect
70 his will, day after day, and year after
year. never once going yourselves to see
what is done, how it is done, or whether
anything at all is done, your children are
out OF your way and in school, and YOU
think your duty Is all performed, where
a. 1t Is in reality, but barely begun Sc
say again, go to school yourselves! Ga
eissu' and feel tina. it isa duty for you to
90 20! just as much a duty as il is for
20. to attend to their daily welfare in
Yoa. who have nerer visited school, Al
oil. ard these compri,e more than nine
s:nths Of the whole parental population
OF Tennessee, will find that one visit will
DO sufficient, if you 60 with a determination
10 Know what your children are doing.
ana what they are needing to do aud can
90. to show you how necessary is your co
operation with the teacher in every thing.
Tour influence is needed to make your
child obey the teacher with pride and
pleasure, rather than yield unwillinply,
mat slavish obedience which results from
fear Of punishment. As you become a
constant visitor to the school you will get
acquainted with the teacher and feel a
s31arathy with his labors, and should your
child be one of the troublesome ones, YOU
VIII see with sorrow and shame how much
anxiety and care that unruly pupil gives
him, and you will then feel called upon to
t.ee!proper means yourself to influence the
child to do better in the future. You
may see that he has poorly learned les.
sons and is way down at the foot of the
elass' you can encourage him to study
more, study at home, and you will even
explain bis lessons and help him to get
Owe the difficulties 50 that he shall make
double progress in the future. There arc
lew children, who, il their parents only
took due interest in them, might not be
made 10 learn almost as much again as
they do now, In every school session If
with the same exertions you could give
them six months more of life wouldn't
you gladly do it? If not increasing the
mind, expanding and widening out the
capabilities making life doubly long by
being doubly valuable! One hour use
fully and pleasantly spent is worth more
than two LACED away and dragged along in
idleuess and apathy
Parents ! your children look up to you
as superior beings, and listen to your
words as TO oracies from the mouths of
Godsl Be very careful then how YOU
advise them. Should the teacher threat
en- to put some indignity upon your child,
such as putting it upon a seat with those
OF the opposite sex, or putting a split
stick upon ths nose, or a FOOLS zap upon
the head, never say to him, don't you
submit to such an indignity. pull of the
stick and throw it dowu,tear up the tools
Gap. don't you be q laughing stock, don't
yoa DC made game Of etc. stcl If a
pupil wilfully. disobeys a teachers com.
mands he should submit patiently to what
ever punishment results fron his misde.
meanors. remembering that it is all his
own fault. It is far better to suffer shame.
modification, and disgrace, than it is to
increase the wrong you have done by re-
sisting a teachers commands. 1t is bet.
ter to suffer humiliation than to do what
is wrong So unless the threaten pun
ishment is such as will severely iniure
you mentally or physically it is better to
bear it patiently than resist It wrong.
fully To teachers would say never.
lit can be avoided, mortify a pupils
pride or self-respect Rather foster aud
encourage a due amount of pride by all
legitimate means. Never punish when it
car bs avoided. Forgive rs YOU would be
forgiven. even the ninety and nine times.
II Is better to err. if err you must. upon
tho safe side! A tender, sensitive child
is ivory easy frightened almost into idiocy
who're a hard. coarse, brutal nature is un,
touched. 1t is a great task to govern with
wise righteousness, so, 30 and 100 chill.
dren, with nature and dispositions, pow
ers and capacities, as diverse as the tcrid
and hgid zones. Aud once again | say to
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