The Republican. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 187?-187?, 1873-01-04
The Management of an Agricul-
tUraI School,

turaI School.
From the Maryville Monitor
The first essential is to obtain off
GERS aohO fear God and are deuoted
to the acorh.
Then as a working motto: There is
time and place for every thing-and
| every thing must be done in it's prop
er time, and every thing put in its
own place"
Somehow it is in the nature of
tield-work to produce irregularity and
want of punctuality: hence the ne
cessity to be prepared at the outset
to insist upon the two essentials of
educational training -P,uct,taIity
and order.
1t will be necessary then to divide
the day into parts, allotting to each
part its proper work. This division
IN the country has to change with
the changes of the seasons. The
divisions of time must also depend
on the amount of labor expected from
the pupils.
In Brookfeld Agricultural School,
when beginning, more than 5 hours
per day in Summer, and in Winter,
were set apart for labor at present,
however, it is less only 4 hours,
Summer and Winter, per day.
In Summer such a division of the
day as this might suit for q School
where 4 hours labor were expected
Rise at o'clock A. M.-Dress. &C.,
till $50.
School from 6:3O till 7 o'clock.
(This would be a suitable time for
Scripture lessons)
Breakfast and Family Worship
from Z to 8 o'clock.
(R90ms, &c, are to be tidied at
this TIME by pupils appointed for
this Work, to be changed weekly
From s to 10 o'clock labor on farm.
(The person responsible for the
farm labor should have a list
made out of the pupils, and work
laid off for all. He should have all
the tools ready at hand, in whatever
spot the pupils form line most con
veniently, before going to their re
sepective works.
From 10 to II, School.
From II to 12:45, Dinner-Recrea-
ton from 1916 to 1:3O. CThen the
children with us get a piece of bread
and milk, and play till 4 o'clock.)
At 4 o'clock the Matter for the
Farm should be ready, AS at 10 o.
clock, and the labor should go on
from 4 to 6.
Supper at 6 o'clock, and time of
Recreation till (say) 7 o'clock at Z
they should return to School bust
ness till s O'Clock, when the WHOLE
family should meet for a time Of de
vOtion before retiring to rest.
In Winter the 4 hours labor
should be in the middle of the dav.
beginning st 10 o'clock, and having
an interval for dinner and recreation.
Tie housekeeping should be con-
Quoted, as much as possible, as in an
ordinary family, but the family being
large, and 7ea',tillg the natural bonds
Of family aetioH, greater degree Of
punctuaity IS necessary and those
who assume the position of father
and mother in the family must be
prepared to overcome ali by love
and this viii be no mere profession.
but fixed principle, ready to be
tested every hour.
Young people who have not vet
learned to eat the bread of labor are
thoughtiess and will waste. Ere
quently to reprove this would upset
even good tempers it is therefore
necessary to teach economy by ex-
ample. Economy is good, but har~
mony in the family is better.
Whatever may be the character of
the head OF the family whatever in
fuence he may WELD with his fellow
man, he must become boyish i'll
thought and feeling if he Will WELD a
powerful influence with boys.