River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-11-15
Educational.
III. y. BAK Err, A. H.. Editor.
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT

ton district, Hartland.
J.R. ELLIOTT will teach in the Hutch
ins district, Diamond Bluff.
Mss BErsBY CLArP, of New Richmond,
is the superintendent elect Of st. Croix
county.
EZRA GLOVER goes To the Fisher dis
trict, Trimbelle. He is an energetic
young man.
TALK with your children about their
lessons and you will increase their in
terest in the same.
Mr.. S. w. MERRIcK has engaged the
school in joint district, Isabelle, Hart
land and Trenton.
We shall be glad to receive lists OF
the officers of the different lyceums
from our correspondents.
The articles upon drawing in the N.
E. Journal of Education are increasing
in interest. Read them.
JOSIE HADLEy teaches at New Cen
terville. The people may feel sule of
good instruction and discipline.
j. w. GORDON has recovered from a
brief but severe illness, and the Pierce
Valley school, Clifton, resumes work.
TEACHERS will bear in mind that tLey
form not only the intellectual habit of
the child, but also his manners and
morals.
The number who applied for certif-
icates this fall is less than usual. 1l2
against 100 at previous examinations
is the contrast.
SEVERAL teachers have given brief
daily lessons in the first principles of
music with good results. LOOMS
First Lessons give the method.
THE State Superintendent does not
furnish his annual report to teachers,
but every district clerk has a copy
which can be borrowed. Also, each
town clerk.
To assist in acquiring a faculty in
expressing thought in writing, there
is no better exercise than writing dali
ly in diary the leading incidents of
life.
JUDICIoUs praise is one of the most
powerful instruments in stimulating
and governing pupils. Continual CELL
sure is a prelude of failure. Flattery
is to be Stunned.
CHILDREN, like adults, respect one
who governs them easily, without
friction or buster, and despises him
who is subservient to their whims and
senseless requests.
WE ask attention to the method of
presenting difficult topics, so-called,
during the coming winter. The ideas
of methods in general programme, ETC.,
are sufficiently we'll understood to take
a secondary place, for season. Try
to approach everything upon its easy
side.
DRAWING as an organized branch OF
our school system. a regular part OF
our school work and should be adopt
ed in our public schools, receiving
with other courses of study, an equa
share of attention, from the lisping
primary to the college post graduate
Wisconsin, Journal IF Education.
The first number of The Practicd
Teacher. published by S. R. WincheIl
Chicago. H., is upon our table. II
seems to be what its name indicates
and if the succeeding numbers are like
the first, the journal will be worthy
of the attention of all teachers. In
no department is there more literary
trash than in the educational.
LYcEUMs contemplating a course OF
lectures will DO we'll to addr ess Prof. A
Earthman, River Falls. If you can have
but one lecture, get it. 1t will make
your school easier by stirring up the
parents. Prof. Els. terms are reason
able, and none need go without an oc
casional feast of reason, on the ples
of heavy expenses. Order your cor
responding secretary to write.
Is it good policy to spoil schoo
to spite neighbor you dislike /,
do ali in yonr power to injure teach
or hired by your enemyl Do you no
infliet lasting injury upon your chill
dren by such course ! Parents wh'
ridicule religion, morality and schools
before their children, usually hav'
cause to blush for their Offspring
from the lack of these qualities.
IT is sad to see young people noun
the hobby of pronunciation, and sac
rifice everything else upon that altar
reeklng with the remains of crushe'
thinking powers. How painful to con
verse with those so conceited and pre-
else that their vocabulary consists, s.
fss as they are able to make it o
words usually mispronounced. Tn
dictionary is ransacked for word
which win astonish the ignorant
From Don Quixote, to Arab, envelope
and ennui they wander. Behold tn
look of astonished wisdom and pit
when deaf is mispronounced. Max
it an incidental. There is no connec
ton between the power Of close thinl
ing and correct pronunciation, or eve
grammatical accuracy. Both are desil
able, but to make them the whole oil
/ i iect of school he is to assume tina
while salt and pepper are allowable
small quantities. we should make thel