River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-04-11
educational.
III. s. BAKER. A. R., Editor.
COUNTY SuPERrNTENDENT)

CHANGE of employment is safer
way of resting pupil than absence of
/ it.
A POOR teacher does all the talking, a
good teacher makes the pupils talk
Reed and Kellogg.
The free high school at Prescott reg
listers 10 although 20 have passed the
| required examination.
SMALL pupils should read but one
sentence at time, but keep at it UNI
til they can do it well.
Ir is said. and truly, that people in
civilized countries, dig their graves
with their teeth.-N. Siser.
CONSTITUTIONS can no longer be fur
nished at the expense of the state.
Supply exhausted. Wise and econom-
ical legislators.
G. w. MCINTYRE has his second read
er class write the lesson on states and
then read from that. Object, to learn
/ 10 I6du WIlUluS TedulIy.
WE were pleased with Ada Moores
school because she taught drawing and
language successfully and system pre-
walls in all things. Negro Hill, Trim
| belle.
TEACHERS will remember the Insti-
| tute at Ellsworth beginning next Mon
day. 1t is not SO far from any point
in the county that any need stay away
who have a disposition to attend.
Miss WALLS, No. 8, Prescott, is CIV
ing exceptionally good instruction in
geography, the tabnlations of the pu-
pills revealing comprehensive views of
the subject. Her drawing work was
very effective.
G. l.. BOWMAN, Bailey district, Cliff
ton, was the recipient of an album, a
volume of poems, and other presents
upon the last day of his school. lie
derserved them and his pupils deserv-
ed just such teacher.
MARY WEST will teach in the Randall
district, River Falls. She has spent
large part of the past year in school
and we look for more than ordinary
improvement upon her good work last
summer in the same place.
The practice of answering questions
about the pronunciation of words,
too much practiced in intermediate
classes. we believe to be wrong. Read
each days lesson to the class yourself,
one day i'll advance, while they listen,
and let that answer.
w. j. MOORE taught music. On Fri
days general work in hygiene. Prlma-
ry arithmetic pupils work on the
board. He renders assistance by ask
| ing questions, as he should. He sees
that any pupil can master almost any
problem by taking but one step at
time. Cudd district, Ellsworth.
A CHILD thrown by himself upon an
|
but few marks of intelligence above
those of the animals about him. The
capacities which favoring environment
would have called into active exercise
would be dormant and only the base
| faculties of life be called into play
Ec.
1
S. MRRR1cK closed his school in joint
district No. /, town of Hartland, the
22nd of March. Miss Taber, of Lodi,
Wis, succeeds him this summer. Miss
Miller will teach at Bay City, B. j..
Mcintyre at EsdaiIe, Belle Redmond
in the Porter district, town of Tren-
ton. j. A. Chapman's school at Bay
City closed March 10Th. p.
! THAT school which sends out its pu-
pills having knowledge of the most
important principles of all branches OF
knowledge, and directs them to pur-
sue some special branch adapted to
their physical and mental organiza-
ton, having taught them at the same
time how to study, how to discrimin-
ate the most important from the less
valuable, is the school which gives the
most thorough education.-E
WHENEVER it is hard work to teach
any class, that is, when You get out OF
patience with Yourself and them, and
feel relieved when the recitation is
past, you have not the right idea of
| the method of recitation, or of pre-
senting a given topic. The con-
seriousness of being tired does not come
to the model teacher until the pleas
urable feeling which every properly
conducted recitation gives. alike to
teacher and pupil, passes off.
Mss IsA D. NEWELL, Proctor district,
River Falls, seems to have a large re-
pertory of the best methods, for all
emergencies, both of instruction and
discipline. 10 see her conduct a
school and walk right through difficult
ties of no small size, gives an observer
an impression that any one could do
/ that, because she does il SO easily.
We are apt to forget that all things
are difficult to the novice, and easy to
| the artist, who by study and practice
i is master Of his business Do not
think that you can hit the target be-
cause a skilled marksman, to you, seems
to do it without an effort. Graceful
action is easy action, AMI grace IN
movement is only doing thing with
no waste of power-it is the best road
to place-and one that requires the