River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-09-13
Educational.
HI. =. BAKER, A. e.. Editor.
COUNTY OVERWHELMINGLY.

NCOUNIN
Do not say too much to visitors about
the faults of your predecessor. II
arouses suspicious.
MISS lisa NEWELL will continue at
Jerusalem Corners, River Falls, anoth-
er term.
When your child is discouraged and
thinks he can never learn anything,
visit the school and see wherein the
fault lies.
Is it justice to your children to let a
district quarrel or the site of a school
house be the cause of poor school
for years
In olneY's Primary Arithmetic we
have work that is really an aid to
the teacher, the first one published,
so far as we know, that will not actu-
ally hinder the pupil. Illustrations
and work to 'keep the little ones
busy" and thinking are good points.
Sheldon & Co., n. Y.
AMONG those who return to their
schools for a second or third term, we
note II. Lowater at Esdaile; j. L. Nc
Cleary at Maiden Rock; j. w. Cor
don at Pierce Valley, Clifton w. A.
Caldwell at Burroughs district, Cliff
ton. Among the new engagements
are j. l.. Rosenberger, Sleeper's Mill,
Hartland A. Resenberger, Ellsworth
village.
WE learn that large number of
districts that held meetings in August
adopted the system of district pur-
chase of textbooks. We hope those
holding meetings in September will do
as well. We will send circulars to
the leading educational men in any
district not well supplied with books,
upon receiving the names from any
friend of the cause. These will place
the subject before the people in its
true light. Correspondence solicited.
BEFORE you engage a teacher, talk
with him. See whether he knows
more of the horse-race than the news
of the day. Does he talk more of his
own merits and mighty deeds than of
the subject which he ought to teach !
Does lady know how the last Ledger
story ''came out" and say she cannot
afford an educational paper! Does
she say more about winter fashions
than school work Straws show the
direction of the current. Observe and
profit.
WITHIN the next two months district
boards are to decide whether the chill
dren of the district shall spend the
winter in idleness and learning what
they should not, or in proper way.
1t IS no light thing to have children
waste three months at any stage of
life? Improve the time and then it
he is likely to know more than you
wish, take him from school young and
put him at work. The loss of time is
scarcely more serious than the dis
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a poor school.
THERE can be no sadder sight than
to see children attending, year after
year, a school in which the teacher is
a person who neither can nor will eX-
cite an interest in study. He cannot
because his intellect is dull. He will
not lest he should be outstripped.
Parents who either through lack of
interest or sellishness, make their
children intellectual dwarts and in
capable of thought, are responsible.
Is money able to gild stupidity so that
it cannot be seen! Not all keen think
ers are teachers or literary people.
Power of thought is just as useful
at the bench or anvil as at the bar or
bedside. No children eyer blamed
their parents for education, but thous-
ands because they did not receive it
when they might. Is your school in
the hands of fool-maker or q thought
EXETER Act.
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