River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-10-10
Edueatiana1.
III. ). BAKER, a. H., Editor.
COUNTY supERIsrENDENT.

Pierce.
WILL CALDWELL teaches the school il
the Spring Grove. or Townsend dis
trict, Trimbelle.
r. L. REED will teach the Trimbellt
village school instead of j. r. Elliott
rs announced lately.
Do not neglect the lyceum in YOU
district and if there is none see if yor
cannot organize one, and interest yom
older.pupils, as well as their parents, SC
that they Will attend and take part
1t will help them and you too.
"THE sun rises in the east. "exclaim
ed the teacher. Eyes there's suth
in rises in the west, too" chimed ii
one of the smaller boys. "Well, what
is it :" asked the school ma'am. SIN.
juns" shouted the urchin. ~E.r.
DR.. Thomas ARNOLD was accustomed
to make much of what he called
"Moral thoughtfulness, as trait OF
character which he desired most of all
to perfect in his pupils, and which he
defined as "the inquiring love of truth
going along with the divine love of
goodness. - Porter.
WE believe that the question must
soon be answered, ''Shall a man vote
who cannot read!" That and compulso-
ry education will put two more foun-
dation stones under our republic, and
kill certain issues which may other
wise soon force us in a belligerent at
titude.
TEACH Arithmetic by using books in
the class us little as possible. Send
your pupil to the board and read his
example TO him and require him to
solve it without book. You will
thus cultivate independence of thought
and test the pupils knowledge OF the
he is trying to Illustrate.
The young men and women from a
district which has had good schools are
as different from those who have not
had such advantages rs steel is from
iron, and all the world know it and
take both at their true value. Are
your children becoming men and wo-
men, or merely animals? DO they dis
cuss mostly lighting OF arithmetic?
The natural, easy, musical quality of
voice which marks refined society
should be cultivated in the school
room from the beginning. Imagine IA
polite person asking visitor to take
a chair, in the tone used by scholars
in reciting their arithmetical lesson.
Yet the forced and stilted tone is as fit
ting in the one case as the other
Monroe.
WHEN you first enter your school do
not burden the minds of yoar pupils
with a long set of rules. Make the
fewest rules possible and never allow
one, once made. to be broken with impu-
nifty. Always punish pupil when you
tell him you will. Give all to under
stand you mean just what you say and
if you do not say too much, you will
have no trouble in maintaining good
order.
MADISON, June 10, 1878.
PRoF. III. S. BAKER,
Supt. Pierce Co., Wis.
DEAR SIR.-In reply to yours of the
18th inst, | would say that in my
opinion no institute will be appointed
by Institute Committee for your coun-
ty this summer or coming fall. You
are too near Normal School, and you
had an Institute this last spring. But
very few counties aided in the spring
by the Institute Committee will be
aided in the same way at the next
June's. Truly yours,
w. @. WHnFoRD.
Supt. Pub. Inst
Be prepared for each recitation as
well as you expect your pupils to be
Read upon the subject you are tC
teach in other books than the regular
textbooks used in school. Have some
fresh demonstrations OF each case il
arithmetic and something interesting
to say about your grammar lesson
Make your history an interesting study
by having some story of the times YOU
class are studying, to tell, or some
questions out side the regular text u
ask. You will find that the time spen
in this preparation is amply paid fol
in the increased interest shown by
your pupils.
IT is very gratifying to learn, through
the New England Journal of Education
that the School Board of Newton
Mass, has set other School Boards the
admirable example of preparing ;
manual for the use of their public
school children, guiding them in thu
choice of reading matter. One o
these manuals is already published
Besides some excellent general hint
upon reading, it presents a list O
books on history, travels, poetry, etc
Each of the school children is fur
nished with a copy of this manual
and can learn from it what are TIN
best books in any special department
of knowledge, and what books may b.
read to best advantage in connection
with their several studies.
One of the saddest reflections tina
trouble the heart of thoughtful mel
and women in these days is, or shoult
be. the unrestrained, unguided read
ing of the majority of boys and girl
from II to 20 years of age. Few par
ents can do so much as teachers Il
train children to correct tastes ant
habits in this respect. In our judg
ment, there is no single school reform
among all the many reforms talked 0
that can do more TO stay the groWtl
of immortality, to strengthen the cor
sciences, judgments and better IN
stincts of our youth, than this on
matter of teaching them 1chdt to fea
and hoto to read, not only in books, bu
| in magazines and newspapers. IL is
| legitimate and most important part o
school work. Many of the best higI
school teachers. East and West. and
| few of the higher grade gramma
school teachers, have been doing con
siderable of this work voluntarily 70
years past, but we believe this is tn
/ Srs+ ivc+aupa in which n school boar