River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-10-17
Educational.
AS. BAKER. A. H.. Editor.
COUNTY SuRERIa

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ly music and physiology.
A NEIdHBoRING county superintendent
requires testimonials of character
from strangers. Proper.
L. p BARG and Otto Nelson, of New
Centreville have commenced attend
ing school at the Institute,
ONE hundred and ten applicants for
certificates this fall, a decrease of 20
from the lowest number in three years.
The standard for certificate will
be the same as last spring, 10 per
cent. for full third grade. 1t is left
optional with us III regard to granting
limited certificates.
WE shall next week present the
claims of the Teachers Library at some
length. Join it before the certificates
are made out so as to have your men,
bership shown upon them.
w. E. WEBSTER, who is now attend
ing the Institute, is to teach at Deer
Park, st. Croix county, the coming
winter. He has the requisite quail
ties for a good teacher.
| Do not assist your pupils in recita-
tion by ask = too many questions
but cultivate 4 each one, the habit
of dependin III himself for his sue
cess or failure in making recitation.
G. L. Bowman will commence his
school in Pierce Valley next Monday.
They have quite large school, but no
doubt Mr.. B. will be able to do good
work with the numbers they send him.
Ir is a question worth debating
whether person who will dishonesty
consult books during examination
| possesses a moral character which
will pass the requirements for GER
titicate, provided there was no other
obstacle to giving one in sach case.
People do not grow because other
people have dined sumptuously. In
order to grow in your shool life you
must learn to eat your own dinners.
Action, ceaseless action. is the key
that unlocks great Nature storehOuse
and gives to man his strength of body
and mind. -E1.
THE Pierce County Teachers Library
is under obligations TO Hon. G. A. Hawn
for a copy of the Geological Report of
the State of Wisconsin,, and set of
maps to illustrate the same. The
book is worth nearly ten dollars and
the maps are exceedingly costly. The
favor is appreciated.
WHAT the education has mainly to
do is to produce strong impressions; for
out of the strength of the Impressions
arises memory and the power of reas-
oning. There must be constant repi-
tition, but never wearisomeness. As
soon as subject lacks interest IL lacks
educative power.
MAKE a thourough work of your in
struction in reading; do not let this ex-
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which is to be hurried through twice
a day; but have your class read once
a day in proper manner, and try to
make this work one of interest and
pleasure to yourself and the pupils.
ANY body can begin; only the saints
persevere. The path that leads
through difficult fields of labor is lined
by those who have ''glven up" who
have become weary in well doing, who
have tainted by the way. The dis
lance between the beginning and the
end is what tests US, is what tries us,
is what disciplines us. We reach sue
ces by successive stages. -Er.
Ir is no easy matter SO to read les
son as to notice and remember all that is
| important in it. Pupils will skim it at
| first, and it is for the teacher to show
them how to dive for the complete
ideas and hidden meanings. All the
hooks and corners should be laid open
in the class; every possible view
brought to light and discussed. Then
will the pupils begin to see the ideas
in the words of the book, and they
will soon learn how to dig them out
and to throw away the shells in which
they lice. A. Morey Ia Ia.
| CHILDREN hunger perpetually for new
| iIono rI,axr will Inap,, x.,iFl, ,,laocnra
from the lips of people, what. would
be drudgery to learn from books; and
even if they have the misfortune to be
deprived of many educational advan-
tages, they will grow up intelligent if,
in childhood, they hear daily the con-
versation of intelligent people. Hence
the Importance that the teacher be an
intelligent person. The Child comes
home and says, ''What do you think
my teacher told us to-day" The dali
ly effort of the teacher should be to
render himself fresh and bright, to
meet with the young minds that form
her class, not to think chow shall !
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". Y School Journal.
PARENTS and school officers, if your
teacher attempts to put all your chill.
dren back to the beginning of the
books, especially the arithmetic, when
the term opens. rebel. They may tell
you that the pupils do not understand
it. If your last teacher was a good
one, they probably know enough about
their books to proceed without more
than weeks review, at most. We
do not believe in the principles of pa
rental or official interference with
good teachers, but those who are aCei
qualified do not turn their pupils back
, every term. Those poorly qualified oil
with limited certificates are most apt
to do so, with a great deal of wise
talk about thoroughness, of which they
know nothing. There is no sight more
sad than to see pupils 10 years of ags
who have been to percentage thres
terms. and have lost all interest in TIL,
. work by lack of progress. The same
applies to history and grammar. 1t j.
: M small unaftpr t.Y waste four month,