River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-12-07
Educational.
III. ,. BAKER. A. r., Editor.
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT

SEVERAL valuable communications
| are crowded out this week.
PRoF. ]. d. BOND, teacher of Pen
manship in the schools at st. Paul.
has our thanks for pleasant call.
| A. j. KINNEY teaches in district No.
of the town of Hudson. Miss Mary
Peel, formerly of the Normal School,
teaches in No. 4 of the the same town.
X.
WE are glad to hear that the teach
ers of Spring Lake are undertaking to
sustain the third Association in the
county. 1t speaks well for their
energy.
II is a waste of stationery to write
for certificate without any examina-
ton, or as it is called, permit. Yet
many persist in it. Permits thus
| granted are not legal.
| Cone out to Prof. Earthman's lee
ture on Saturday evening and learn
what manner of people occupied the
country before the Indians. At the
NJ. L. Church, o'clock.
THERE is no enterprise in which the
investment yields SO small a profit. as
the business of scolding. 1t Is really
pitiable to witness the teacher given
to this practice, making himself and
ali around him unhappy ID. p. Page.
| REAHNBER that the Association on
Saturday will be held in the Normal
School-room. There will be a portion
of the morning exercises that will
benefit district boards, and parents
will be profted by some of the after
noon work.
A LYcEUM has been organized at the
Clifton Hollow school-house, with the
following officers: Pres, NJ. L. Robey;
Vice. Pres, j. G. West; Sec., Mr.
Bradish Treas, Emma Webb. Meet
ings every Saturday evening, at $50.
The question for the next meeting is:
"Resotoed, That the right of suffrage
should be extended to women" Lead
ing disputants, G. l.. Bowman and Mr..
Bradish.
The school in the Townsend district,
| Trimbelle, commenced Monday, the
18th ult., with fighting force of SO
able-bodied girls and boys and G. G..
Williams as their captain. Mr.. Will
liams thinks that the proverb, uni
iormity without variety is monotony,
and that variety without uniformity
is chaos" proves true in the school
house as well as elsewhere. b.
TIE monthly meeting of the teach
ers of st. Paul, held November 25th,
was addressed by Prof. E. j. Thompson
of the State University. He is an old
teacher, and was at one time superin-
| tendent of Fillmore county, Minnesota.
The address was full of practical sug-
gestions upon the teachers work. Pa
thence and careful preparation for
each lesson, were warmly urged. S.
| SYLvANUs BIOwS is teaching the
school in district No. 7, town of Spring
Lake.
| The INDEPENDENT TEACHERS Association
met at the appointed place, In Maiden
Rock, Nov. 18th. There were present
some of the most practical and expert.
enced teachers of that part of the
county. The following are several Sc.
lectiOns taken from the many: No.
tation and Enumeration, by S. B.
Mckinney; he gave those present
some practical ideas Problems in In-
terest, L. ID. Golf; Grammar, Miss
Potts; Orthoepy, ID. E. HOleman;
Geography, j. L. Rosenberger. Avon.
! Or PuNIsHxENT.-0ut OF the almost
infinite variety of ways to inf1ict pun.
| ishment upon scholars, recognize but
three which, in my opinion, are not
liable to serious objections. Those
only which would adopt are
First,-Kind Reproof-Begin with
the scholar pleasantly. A smiling
question that elicits smiling answer,
will be found materially t.. aid us
many times. A scholar who stubborn
ly resists every other advance on the
part Of the teacher, will often yield
to good humored remark that COM
pels the lips to curl. This point gain
ed, you will seldom fail to secure your
object.
Second would curtaiI the schol-
ar's privileges. If the scholar is un-
civil, obscene or boisterous at recess,
I would keep him within doors, and
only grant him a recess by himself.
This often has salutary effect, but
cannot always be depended upon.
Third,-7ne ROd.-Like many 9TH
ers which have stricken from the list,
this appears to be relic of more
barbarous age, but when all other ex-
pedients fail, its application will al
most invariably bring the offender to
| terms.
When compelled, finally, to use the
rod, we should make few words
about it, but proceed at once to its
faithful application, and then lay it
aside.
No specific rules can be laid down
to meet every case, or to suit partic-
ular emergency. Upon this vitality
important subject all that can be said
is TO throw out some practical sugges-
tions. / repeat, then, that il is one
Of the arts of the teacher which can
he learned only by actual experience.
and the great secret lies in the ability
to comprehend the language of the
eye and the cOuntenance. and the in
toLations of voice that betray to the
close observer, the feelings, passions
and emotions of the heart and mind.
In short a fhorOugh knO2ipdge of lu-