Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-01-23

employ him to teach. He must constant
" review his studies, every lesson must
be prepared with the same diligence and
care that he requires his pupils to use
he must 20 beyond the lesson and, us u
lens, converge rays of light upon the
subjects taught. He must do this, that
he may be ready and apt in illustration
and explanation; he must do this that he
may save time to his pupils, and prevent
them falling into indolent mental habits.
The time outside of school hours, for the
Conscientious teacher, is not glorious
holiday but hours Of work. The teacher
must be emphatically student.
Children cannot study unless they are
comfortably situated. This leads to the
consideration Of other appliances. house,
apparatus, surroundings, &c. The house
should be large enough to accommodate
all without packing" 1t should be ar.
ranged so that it may be evenly warmed
and ventilated, as may be required. The
ceilings should be high, so rs to secure
bountiful supply of pure air. Where the
ceilings are low the i'll effects may, in
great measure, be remedied by making
more ample provisions for ventilation.
Brain work cannot be successfully car
ried on unless there is bountiful supply
OF pure air. In the school room for want
Of attention to this matter, the seeds of
disease and suffering may be sown
Many school is disordcrly and hard to
manage, simply for the want of room,
ventilation and convenient arrangement
Of the school room. Economy of time,
money and health, would dictate the ex
penditure Of money to procure these
things. The surroundings of school
buildings should be such as to please and
improve taste. The school house should
he all attractive place. Children, ut first
do not love study. To fix the attention,
for the young, is painful task, and
whether they will form love for study
and thought, or II hatred for the same,
depends, in great measure, upon what
is associated with their studies i'll early
school life Order and harmony without
bcect order and harmony within. Our
schools should be furnished with appar-
atus, globes maps, charts, &c. A young
person will gain more correct knowledge
of mathematical geography by few
hours study, assisted by an artificial
globe, than by months of study Of the
text merely. Directors should visit the
schools They are officers sworn to per
form duty How this duty can be per-
formed without visiting schools, can
not imagine. Parents should visit
schools This shows pOsitiuety to the
child, that We have an int rest in the
school. Anything that child must do
is done with more interest and ease if the
parent accompanies. Parents should
take an active interest in the studies,
their children are pursuing. In conclu-
ding, cannot do better than to make a
few extracts: your speaker has seen
the grandfather of eighty years induced
to look into geography, in order to Cor
rect in his little grandson that glaring
hcrcsy Of modern times, that tie earth
turns round on its axis, and after pro
nouncing the assertions Of the little phi
losopher nonsense, silly nonsense be
come interested in the child's artless dc
Tense of his book, and finally to take
lessons of his pupil, and become a com
panion of his studies for months together.
The results were valuable. They showed
that an aged man, in the midst OF bust
ness engagements, could learn new
science and that the results OF such
companionship were most salutary upon
the mind of the child. That child was
nv pupil, and far surpassed his class