Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-11-14

him good, is good idea. The mutual
sympathy Of pupil aud teacher is VIA;
u fseeded, aud the teacher who knows
ao~ to arouse the latent sympathy that
exists in all is sure TO secure good gov
eminent. But il will not do to say
never use the rod If you can rule by
sympathy, by love, rule that way, but
discipline you must have; you must
have government with or without love.
w. L. Hibbs, arose to express his
great satisfaction at the manner in
which the Institute is moving along
All the teachers should talk to the
question. The question IL an old aud
Important Que, and has often been
talked over He would like to have a
special rule for the government oi
schools. There need be no punishment
inflicted on teachers who come to the
Institute; they all conduct themselves
properly T; they come with respec. for
themselves and respect for others.
Pupils should enter the school wi,h the
same respect that teachers enter the
Institute, and then there would be no
trouble about government.
w. Ii. Groninger, next obtained the
floor. in the question before the In
stitute be recognized an important.
question of goversment, that can
scarcely be over estimated. He felt a
good deal for the side that favors mu.
tual sympathy, love, moral suasiou.
He can not be certain that his school is
governed strictly by the principles of
sympathy and love, yet when these
principles are brought Into setive play
they will reach every Case Uf course
If love will not answer, it is proper to
reach the case through the nerves Of
the back. 1t may be hard to govern a
school in these days of defective morals
and bluufed intelligence without the
rod. but that does not d.sprove that the
principle of sympathy, love and moral
suasion Is wrong. A child that is hab-
itually whipped and scoided at some
other plsce lie spoiled pupil before 1t
enters the school-room. Whipping
naturally arouses spirit of resentment
Ii is an autocra,ic power or exercise to
whip. The child never gets a hearing
in school-room. 1t is whipped with
out daring to utter word in excuse
for the conduct that brings the whip TO
its back. The country is not yet ad-
vanced enough to abolish whipping in
the scbools. but We are far alb, ad Of the
people of fifty years ago. We are
slowly working up to the abolition of
the rod
David Watts, spoke to the question
He maintained that the question of
school government is not as broad as
many believe il to be it is more of an
individual question than most people
are willing to concede it narrows it.
self to this that the 90 teacher who can
properly govern himself can govern
a school" That, be maintains, is the
secret of the whole question.
j. w. PIett, was the next speaker.
He spoke to the poin: of the mental
q iestlon in the subject II a material
on the back is needed to get
a mental Impression TO lodge in the
mlnd Of the pupil. he will whip the
child. Tue object is to reach a result,
# you can reach it BY the rod, and by
no other way, use the rod. There is
great deal of wrong iIculcatei by the
moral suasion doctrine Men, pupils.
must know that there IS a stern au.
ihorlry that compels respect for place.
tie loves sympathy, he loves love, but
if you give some people an over dose of
sympathy and love it sours on them
and ruins them. He would not think
of abusing children, but while he is in
the school room be expects to be "Mon-
arch of all he surveys" Solid mater
iai is the stuff to lay on REBEL llious pu-
pills.
Wellington Smith, again took up the ques-
ton He spoke of extreme cases. 1t is
not proper to anger rebellious pupils, so as
TO arouse the opposition of friends of the
child. Trouble, prosecution, often follow
The thing TO do is to see the parents of the
unruly member. send the case of bad train.
ing home where it belongs. See the direc-
tors, and thus quietly cause the rebellious
pupil to submit to other authority or stay
at home The parents and directors are the
masters of the stu aticn, and no teacher
should aspire to train child whose parents
will not train II at home, let the disgrace OF
bad training fall where it belongs, do not
shoulder it on the teacher. Let it be un-
derstoOd that it is a disgrace to send to
school badly trained children, and good
training at home will become an object
with the parents. Do not use the
rod unless the parents and directors give
to do SC. Mr.. Smiths speech
brought out
John III. Hlbbs, in ringing tones from the
word GO, he insisted that it is the right.
duty of the teacher to preserve order in the
School. The teacher in Juniata county
does not live who can on all occasions govern
without the rod. Parents and directors
cannot always be looked up to decide ques-
lions Of bad conduct and rebellion. The
teacher who gets angered in whipping a
pupil cannot properly exp-l child. The
child must be conquered from its bad WAYS, |
the pupil must understand that the teacher
is Monarch in the school room, the teacher
should be an Autocrat in the school room. |
Moral suasion is curse, it poisons the |
minds OF parents against authority, people !
Te getting too loose on the question of au-
thority, there are two many natural born
bad people to permit oi ta- teaching OF such |
doctrine as moral suasion to permit OF il /
being carried into practice, natural born
lewis must be held in check By authority,
It is a waste OF sympathy and love to offer
It to such people.
W. II. Gronninger, obtained the floor the |
second time. He tad not been Informed of |
he blishmeut of whinpino nosts in DaI |