River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-10-12
Educational.
III :. BAKER. A. H, Editor.
(CouxrY sUPERISTREDESr.)

ALBION BURR yields the rod in Trim.
belle village.
Z. G. McISTYRE practices pedagogy
in the Stumble district, Martel.
NJ. L. RoBEy, of this town. has been
engaged to teach the school i'm Dis.
No. 2, Clifton.
MISS EMMA COOPER teaches in the
Scott-Chapman district, Troy. She
believes in a third term.
MRS. l.. A. LOCKWOOD takes the n. E.
journal of Education, of itself. suf
ficient recommend of her skill.
EXAMINATION at the Academy last week.
Promotion up or down, as necessary.
will follow, says Mr.. Farnsworth.
DENA LARSON takes her school again
in the N. w. part of Gilman. She has
been there many terms. Lucky dis
trict: wise board.
Tue Teachers Association will be
put on different basis after examina-
ton, and measures taken to secure reg
ular, and frequent meetings.
PRoF. F. p. CHAPMAN holds st. Croix
county examinations at Hammond,
Oct. 18th and 18th; at Hudson, Oct.
18th and 18th; at New Centerville,
Oct. 18th and 10Th.
WE are sorry that as yet nothing has
been done by the committee of the
Maiden Rock Monthly Teachers Associ-
alton, organized ON the 22d of July
last,) towards calling q session.
r.
THE teachers of the Prescott school
have teachers meeting one evening
in each week, in which classes are con.
Quoted and criticised, reports given,
etc. The same plan is followed in all
the rooms in teaching Geography;
good work is being done at present in
Home Geography.
ONE clerk asked us to recommend a
''steady" teacher. The last winters
school was taught by one who was not
steady. The clerk did not wish one
who turned the school-rOom into a
dance-house, during intermission, or
spent every evening in revelry. Well,
some folks are particular about the
teachers example.
The following pleases US more than
little. A correspondent says:
We admire the good judgment of
district school boards in the town of
Ellsworth, who endeavOr to raise the
standard of their schools by engaging
teachers holding no lower than Sec
ond grade certificate. They rather,
and will, pay ten dollars more per
month.
PRoF. Huxley, in his late lectures in
N. Y, signally failed to satisfy his
hearers that the evolution theory, of
which he is one of the ablest expositors,
was sustained by the proof of facts.
The N. Y. Tribune mildly says that he
''generaliZed from insufficient data"
The Sun ''would like to hear his
proofs,' limiting broadly that none
had been given.
SOME pupils ask the opinion of some
persons, on the subject of study, and
then the teachers, and tell him, if he
differs, that so-and-so says that is
wrong, and thus "catch'' the teacher,
as the phrase is. This is a noble occu-
patton for the strong minded pupils
that follow it. They are, usually, as
far up the Hill OF Science, as they will
ever get. Their brain power is on the
wane, if they ever bad any.
THE following from the Assistant
State Supt, in reply to our letter ask
ing what standard of average would
be proper for a full third grade certif-
icate, upon the scheme submitted,
needs no comment:
II. S. BAKER, Dear Sir:-''Sixty per
cent. is not unreasonable, on the ques-
tions. You would be sustained on that
standard. Even then you have to is
sue number of limited certificates to
fill the schools. Still it is well to
press up the standard for regular GER
tificates. The Normal will help this.
Your questions are searching, but that
is what is wanted.
Truly yours,