River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-11-09
Educational.
III. y. BAKER. A. r., Editor.
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT

/ VIZ visited w. 4. Cadwell's school
last week, and found it in the midst of
written monthly examination. He
Is In the Burroughs district, Clifton.
Let others do likewise, as they should.
THINKING parents viii not trust their
children in the hands of physician
who never takes medical journal to
keep up with his profession Nomore
should they feel satisfied with their
children in the hands of a teacher
who never takes an educational pa
per.
SINCE corporal punishment was abol.
ished in some schools, pupils wear
thin cuticle, and are consequently very
apt to catch cold Teachers, too, from
the same cause, grow tall and slim
from want of exercise. Now the
question comes, who can suggest a
remedys Reason with the boy before
you whip him. Phil.
THE SCHooTMAsTgR ABRoAD.--This eel
ebrated phrase originated with Lord
Brougham. The following is the para
graph in which it occurs: 'Let the
soldier be abroad if he will, he can
do nothing in this age. There is an
other parsonage less imposing in the
Icyes of some, perhaps insignificant.
The schoolmaster is abroad, and I
trust to him, armed with his primer,
against the soldier in full military ar
ray"
THE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION at Els
worth next Saturday, the 18th inst,
will, we hope, be as profitable as the
ones which have preceded it. The
following is part of the programme:
w. j. Perry, Primary Reading; g.
w. YOungman, Physiology of Ventila-
ton; j. ID. Pardee, Advanced Read
ing; Sumner Farnsworth, Model Glass
Drill in Letter-Writing; J. S. Rounce,
Botany in Common Schools; j. T.
McCleary, Arithmetic.
The School BULLETIN for October, con-
tains the following valuable articles:
School Visitors, The Normal Schools,
A Language Lesson, Science Gossip,
and Among the Stars. The above is
only small part of the list of topics
treated. Our opinion of this journal
has been given too often to need re-
peating. Call and see a specimen
copy. G. L.. Bowman, River Falls, is
agent for Pierce county, to whom the
subscription price for clubs, IS cts.
can be sent. We will also take SUBJ
scriptions. The following list of SUBJ
scribers to the BULLETIN in Pierce Coun.
ty, shows that it is appreciated whenev-
er 1t is examined:
Will Caldwell, Florence Olive, Hettie
Ives, Mary L. Walls, J. W. Gordon, G.
L. Bowman, P. F. Robey, w. d. Parker,
Henry Brown, w. j. Gray, C. w. Blake,
II. S. Baker, d. E. Holman, w. ID. Chap
in, A. b. Burr, A. j. Kinney, n. Mar
Gus, Benton Webster.
We shall publish the.list of subscrib-
ers to other journals in this paper, and
if district boards will cut out the lists,
and preserve them. and also the lists
of those who attend the Teachers AS
sociations during the winter, they will
have a very good list of all the teach
ers whom it will be profitable to hire
for the summer schools, or whom they
will be satisfied with if they hire. The
most unmanageable teachers, and
those who are sure to never rise
above mediocrity, are those who have
taught for years, and never read
journal relating to their business, nor
visited an institute or association, and
never attended school during vaca-
tions. The exceptions are few. Note
any names with care, if they appear
in two or more lists of subscribers.
These ideas are not original or rad
ical; simply one phase of common
sense. The following extract sums up
the matter very forcibly and plainly:
''Any one who pretends to teach, and
does not read an educational paper or
magazine, is not worthy of the name
of teacher, and should leave the pro-
| fession at once to make room for some
one who will do what he should. -
Prot. A. EarthBldn IN Wisconsin, Jour
nal of Education, 1873.
How Incompatible is perishable lucre
with a trained and intelligent mind
How vastly more happy, more potent
and more worthy of respect is the man
of culture, though poor, than the
wealthy boor
How infinitely preferable is that
wealth of mind that rules, to the
wealth of pocket that pays the ruler.
Wealth is n,ught but machine;
and the wealthy man, as such, is but a
degree removed, machine tn be guild
ed, directed, and worked by men of
mind.
No one who reads these lines intends
to let his children grow up in ignor-
ance; nay, he expects rather to give
them at least, thorough common
school or academic education; but in
the grand rush and hurry for wealth
that characterizes these western CON-
munities, he forgets his resolutions
when the proper time comes, and only
recalls them when he finds his chill
dren matured into manhood and wom-
anhood, hampered and crippled for life
by defects in their mental training;
defects that will cause them more
shame and mortificati IN than any de-
foruaifv of body