The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-03-09

is how to provide the schools with earnest,
intelligent, undetermined teachers. 1t is less
a question of buildings, apparatus, books, SUI
pervision, etc.
Would that the people CT the State could
be induced, even for a single year, to give
half as much consideration to this subject as
they have given to the comparatively insig-
n6cart matter Of railway rates.
Children stay or are kept from school on
the most tri1ing excuse, and are permitted
to waste their time in ideness a home. This
is not only great injury to those who do not
but also those who do attend regularly. IL
is source of perplexity and annoyance to
teachers and a serious drawback to the
efficiency of the schools, and as long as it
continues satsfactoryprogress will be impossi-
BILE.
So says one of our earnest county superin-
tendents. -
For the Times.
Just about one hundred years ago, Gen.
BurgOyne was commander-in chief of the
British army. He sent troops into Canada :;
his plan being to send his army down the
Hudson river to prevent the New England
troops from joining Gen. Washington's army.
Their project DID not succeed as well as
they anticipated, for many were made prison
ers and two or three thousand were taken
for safe keeping to Rutland, Mass, which was
the home of my Great Grandmother at that
time. Ny Grandmother was then wide
awake patriotic girl II or IS wears of age
The officers of the army were allowed some
liberty, so that they became quite well known
in many families. This was in the day. of knee
buckles, when they wore highly polished
boots reaching to their knees. One dav nv
Gran dMother was hopping the floor when
one of the officers calling at the door, making
some impairment remark that did not suit
her very well. She requested him to leave
but he refused She told him If he didn't
she would spatter his boots. He told her she
didn't get out of the way he'd see He re-
peated that she didn't dare t. do it. True TO
her word she gave the mop an extra dip,
slapped it around onto his boots. Then he
thought it was time to be going The next
day he came back and gave her as reward
for her daring deed, a silver dollar, which
was quite rare present in those DAYS OF
Continental scrip. A few years afterwards.
when she was married, her wedding dress of
Calico cost seven hundred dollars, in Cont
mental money. She lived 10 be ninety nine
years old and knew great many stories of
those times, which she used to like to tell to
those who liked to listen to her. ~
In the March member of Serb
ner, Edward Eggleston discourses
in regard to Froebels kindergarte
theories His whole method found
ed itself upon the chiId's nature.
A child is social, therefore he must
have companions and not be left to
the solitude of his home. He is
active and 70 Of making-keep
hlm busy, and help him to produce
things He loves the earth give
him a garden patch. He is an artist
give him music, initiative action,
and other appropriate means of ex-
preston He is curiouS-teach
him to think and discover. lie is
religious-lead him to trust in God.
On this last he said: God trust,
has died ont of the world. The
Kindergarten shall bring it b k so
that the next generation of child
rem shall be Gods children n"
Here is work for a child, not
against the grain, but with it: not
in violation Of Gods law in the
child's nature, but in loving obedl-
ence to it. Instead of punishment
the lad who makes pictures upon
his slate, the loving Kindergarten
m ster puts him TO making pictures,
and gently show HIM how 10 pro-
duce with his fingers the pictures
that float in his brains Instead Of
rebuking his curiosity AMI coz
structiveness, the KeiIhau school
master yokes them TO his purpose
Instead of checking the chIld's
sweetest impuIse-rhe impulse TO
play-he cOn>ecrates IL. Jean
Paul has said: "Pay is the child $
first poetry" 1t was a wise and
poetic saying ola poet. But Froeb-
ell was not a poet. but school
master and philosopher. He
went deeper, and said the supreme
word about play when he called 1t
"the first work of childhood" 1t is
the child's chief BUSINESS. Use |
play to serve The ends of education
you may, but to do away with it is
the unpardona Die sin Of the preva-
lent method of teaching.
''RATTLE his bones over the
stones he's naurht Int o manner