Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-03-12

aud Of things-meihOd, that are designed
10 stimulate aud guide the naiire eoriosi.
~ Of the live, irrepress,ble. often puzzl.
ing and uuanswerable. little interrogation
point. But we know, too. that this change
is working but slowly in our schools CT
many sections Of the eountry,-lhat the
cd ruis are deep aud hard to leave; that
the old traditions have a firm aud tens.
ciOus grip on all. or nearly all, our prl-
MARY school teeohers. They may not be
satisfied with the ways they follow, but
they know, and so can employ, no other
Should they leave the beaten path, they
would require thought and study, Bet
ter methods might necessiiatc some work
on their part. This consideration, how
ever. will stumble only those who ought
never TO have thought Of school work
not the true teacher, her who is Z" called {"
to this high office. To such one We have
a suggestion TO make.
By the time your school opens, spring
will have come in good earnest. The
earth will be covered with plants and
flowers; the air be full cf birds and ia.
sects. Why not take up some department
of Natural History? You may not be
verscd in al y branch of it, aud so hesitate
TO make the attempt. Never mind can
you not learn? Do yon not know at least
as much about it as The ten-ysear-olds, and
can you not learn as fast as they? Sup
pose you chose Botany,-on the whole,
perhaps, the oest branch for the expert
ment you would make. No matter if YOU
cahnot tell stamen from an axil, an arc.
none from pitcher. plant. We may tearu
b,v teaching, you know. Get n copy of
Mis- Younons' First Book Of Botauv I'd.
Appleton Il Co, N. Y system OF OBJ
ject lessons the most su ggestiye and help
ful book for ncginuels say pupils from
SIX to ten years old that we have yet
seen. Read her very sensitive preface
and suggestions TO teachers; examine the
numerous Illustrations and accom- panyins
schedules; note how gradually and With
what orderly sequence she developes the
elements Of the science, without confusion.
OF mixing Of vegetable physiology; see
how IN the examination of leaf, stem,
Hover and root successfully, she exercises
and trains the powers af obsel walton, so
alert at this age. but which the old meth.
no ueglects ;and then ask yourself # ycu
cannot work so simple, so practical a
scheme. We meke no question that your
pucils would rejoice in it, that your own
enthusiasm would be kindled BY it and
that the plant lessons would be among the
most useful, as they would be sure 10 be
the most delightful of the whole term.
Our reason for giving this advice we
cannot state here, but happily there is lit.
tie need, for you will find capital dis
cnssior Of the whole matter in an essay
at the end Of the book, which we wish
every teacher might read, mark and in.
wardly digest. This essay alone is worth
the price of the book. BY the thine the
summer schools Of 1879 open, we hope
the author will have the secoud book rea lv,
SO that you and your classes nay 90 on
under her direction. Me awhile. with.
out waiting for that, get Prof, Gray's
little volume, HoW Plants Grow and
How Plants Behave, aud PREF are your
self TO answer the thousand question:
which your children will ask you day by
day. IT. faithfully following this advice,
you, fail of success, we hereby engage to
buy again of you, at the end of the sum.
me-, term. your cupies of Prof. Gray's and
Miss Youmans' books, and pay, full price
theretor.-The Americ an Educational
Monthly. -