Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-11-13

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No one more needs the convefiences1
and comfortsAo home than iasoors
rious and carewern instructressa OF our
children. She needs it for rest and com
fort while she can be relieved from the
excitement and toll of the school room;
She needs it that she may have time and
opportunitv to prepare herself for her
important-school duties; and she needs
it in common with all other civilized
human beings, as ''there is no place like
home" even though it be substituted and
temporary. What should we think of
the church that should require their
pastor to board among his Pensioners
that should compel him to feel that he
has, among his people, ssno abiding
place" but must go with his wife and
children from house to house, to get his
daily bread? How much time would
such minister have to prepare himself
for his pulpit scrvicesp Indeed, how
would his usefulness be abridged by
such foolish effort on the part of his
parish to econemize.
And suppose the village doctor was
required to board among his patients ],
Such an idea would be ridiculed as pre-
posterous, but why more unreasonable
to require the minister and doctor to
board in twenty different families every
three months than to require the school
master and school-mistress to do the
same. fkt1 ~ -I&
The teacher needs steady, pleasant
home, and it is not only the imperative
duty but the best policy OF, trustees. to
provide such home. =. ,-s.,cc. KS 81 =.
Again, every teacher should be al owed
to manage his own, school. 1t not COM
petent to do so, he should not have been
employed. If a mistake has been made
and an incompetent person engaged, the
difficulty will not be removed by the
interference of parents. Teachers often
seek advice and may profit by 1t, but
anyeffort on the part of parents to die
tate and control in the matter of school
management, is not only unwise but
ruinous. The teacher, too, often finds
among his patrons those. who presume
to give gratuitous information and eoun-
sell Mrs. A, in very friendly spirit in
forms him that his neighbor has some
very bad boys, who always make trouble
in school, and warns him to be on his
guard Mrs. G, thinks it important that
he should know how sensitive the pa
rents in that district are on the subject
of corporal punishment, and advises him
to govern mainly by moral suasion. She
assures him if he will do so he will be
popular and successful. Mrs. i, an old
school teacher, has, in her own estima-
ton, some excellent ideas upon different
methods of instruction, and she is very
anxious that the master should adopt
them in that school. So the .meddlesome
misunderstanding goes on, untilthe young
teacher is distracted and perplexed be
yond measure. And as he cannot, if he
would, listen to the suggestions nor fol
low the advice of all, he is sure to be
come the subject of tea party gossip, and
of village criticism and abuse, such as
will greatly interfere with his usefulness,
if it does not prevent his success In that
district. Wise teachers pay no attention
to such unwarrantable Interference, and
wise parents allow and encourage the
teacher to manage his own school ia his
own way. So. sPARENs.
Miss Shoddy, '..Taint no use. proposin'
marriage to me; Mr.. Smithers: When q
gals as rich'n as pooty as / be; faint
likely she's. going to take no .Amerikin,
when she kin GO. to Europe an git d
Prinoipality, or at least German
Barony ora French. county, for a hus-
band y AK. --.-!-. .-sEs 1854. -...s