River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-01-10
Educational.
H. ). BAKE Err, A. r., Editor.
COUNTY SuPERINTENDENT.)

Is there such thing as grammatical
error? If it is an error is it grammat-
ical! j.
How should Tide be pronounceds M.
Teelda.
WHAT is the population of Pierce
county? NJ.
15,l0l in 1875.
WHAT is the rule for spelling receive
and believe. M.
The combination civ is preceded by
G; the combination lev by some 9TH
or letter.
INDUSTRIAL Drawing in the River Falls
public school is shedding rays of light
over many other branches.
ORrsoN WARREN begun school in dis
trict No. g. Maiden Rock Dec. Sd. At
tendance, %. New textbooks work
admirably.
We are glad to see many teachers
who have skill enough to conduct a
geography class with mixed text
books. A step upwards.
THE December number of the Wis
consin Journal of Education contains
many items from the retiring editor,
and the usual variety OF interesting
decisions. We wish every teacher
and district clerk would take it.
A CORRESPONDENT asks the teachers to
try the following. We will publish
the names of those who work it cor
rectly: How much land in piece
100 rods on one side, fifty on the other
and twenty-five across each end?
ssTHE examination of the first class
at Forest school, in Hartland and Isa-
belle, for the first quarter was as fol-
lows: Miss Laura Ridgman L Miss
Elsie Spalding 5.4; Mr.. A. L. Ridgman
SO; Mr.. w. Spalding &c." w. NJ. I.
THE following names are the pupils
who punctually and without hardness
attended my school during the first
month of the term: Henry Huber,
Henry Junkman, Jacob Jonson, and
Emma Heckel, and who likewise should
be noted for good conduct.
G. w. YoUNGMAN, Teacher.
j. M. GREGORY, president of the Hi
nols Industrial University, says that
he would agree to teach boys of twelve
years of age of ordinary talent and in
telligence, in six months of school
time, all the arithmetic they would
need to know in business life. He
gives his plan in the New England |
Journal of Education. Not all agree. |
E. A. BRADIsH, Clifton Hollow |
school, had his advanced classes be- |
gin their work where they left it at |
the close of the summer term, IN
stead of killing time by reviewing |
what did not need it., lest the pupils |
should get ahead of him before the |
close of the term. The advanced |
spelling class use Dinsmore's spelling |
blanks, and throughout his methods |
are the outgrowth of a cultivated CON-
mon sense.
The following is the programme of |
the Association at Ellsworth, Jan. II, |
1878. Orthoepy, W. j. Moore; Trials |
of a Teacher, w. J. Perry A fraction
divided by fraction, G. G.. William S;
U. S. History, NJ. L. Robey; Spelling,
as it should be taught, G. w. Cairns |
and III. P. Ames; Demonstration of |
the Pythogorean Proposition, A. Ro-
senberger, II. Lowater; Querist, An
mis- M. Beattie; committee on music, |
G. w. Youngman; Daniel Thurston,
Advanced reading.
THE object of recitation is not 5: To |
give the teacher an opportunity to
lecture. To give the pupils a chance |
to corner the teacher by questions.
To have the pupils say the lesson as it
is in a book. To give the pupils drill
in evading answers to the questions
asked by the teacher, by giving an IT.
relevant answer, and then allowing the
teacher to answer his own question, by |
way of explanation. To show off |
smart pupils, to transient visitors. To
torture dull pupils by an irisolent man.
ner, adroitly ridiculing them, for the
amusement of those more favored by |
nature. To criticise the text books. |
To discuss non-essential points or any |
other, by any other means than ques-
tions from the teacher, and answers
by the pupils.
FROM an article upon School Gov
eminent, in the Eau Claire Free Press,
by Supt. Agnes Hosford, we select the
following sentences as worthy of care
full thought
When pupils have shown that they |
will not be benefited and their pres
ence deprives others of The benefits of |
the school, they have forfeited their
right to its privilt ges. When women
are rejected because they cannot gov
ern the school, it shows that wrong |
spirit reigns in that community. Con-
sultation with parents is not often
productive of much good. Those who
are disobedient and disrespectful at
school, are more so at home 1t some |
times happens that the teacher gains
by the conference only the contempt |
of parents. Very likely he will be
told, ''you do not understand my |
child. He has yery peculiar dispo-
sition. It'll never do to drive him,
but you can coax him to anything