The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1878-07-03
A Proposition TO Teachers.

Why is 1t that the business Of teach
ing meets with so marked a want OF
respect? 1t is not that it is not a,
important and legitimate a profession
as any other, nor is it because tile
masses have not a just appreciation OF
learning. Then why is it? 1t must
be attributable to the fact that so many
engage in it who are not competent
who do not properly appreciate the
high calling wherein they are en-
gaged-who consider it merely As a
means of accumulating dollars and
cents-whO really hate the calling,
but have no other means of making
money. Teachers, respect your cali
ing, and by your example force others
to respect ii.
1t Is a duty--in fact a necessity -
for teachers to take and read some good
educational journal. To the more gen
eral reading Ofsuch journals may be at
tributed the advanced condition of
teaching as profession and the better
grade of teachers. l well remember
when half the teachers in Ohio county
made no pretence to teach grammar, and
as to arithmetic many Of them would
gravely assure their pupils that unless
they were going to be professional
men, there was no use to study it far
Their than the " single rule of three in
Smileys or Pixies arithmetic. In fact,
they could teach no further.
| was assured by a gentleman, not
long since, that my column had bene-
fitted his children more than any
three months schooling they had ever
received. Don't that make the HER.
AID cheap paper?
T. HIN the sentence you quote
"The ball goes whizzing through the
air." whizzing relates to ball-modifies
it, if you please. In the sentence,
The boy goes whistling through the
field" you have 10 difficulty in seeing
what whistling relates to boy.
A teacher in Tennessee was recently
indicted for feruling girl sixteen years
old, until she went into convulsions,
because she would not ask his pardon
for a disrespectful answer she had
given him.
A pretentiOus woman, who affected
fineness of speech, said of a certain gen.
tleman: "He is a perfect paragram
Of manners" "YOu mean parallelo-
gram, madam, do you not? Oh, yes;
thank you; of course l meant parallel
Ogram," said the pretender.
When the preacher makes two to be
one flesh, it is sometimes hard to tell
which one it is. / have heard that an
appeal to scratching and hair-pulling
has frequently been made to settle the
question,
When you see young man who Is
poor and not too nice to do you a good
turn-not too proud to accept the Wages
he has earned, always diligent, shu :
ing saloons, reading useful books
and true to his word, you need not
consult deck of cards, nor examine
the lines in his hands to tell his fortune;
he is n safe investment.
/ don't know whether my zeal has
outrun my judgement heretofore or
not; my desire is to see teaching, as
in the the city graded school, so in the
little ruraldistrict-reduced to a system
and 4 profession. Why not? In
what is the city teacher better than
We? In what. are we worse than
they?
The June number of the Eclectic
Teacher is received, and if possible,
is fuller Of interest than usual. A
single article, "SchOOl Management
by j. Baldwin, is alone worth the sub
scnptiOn price. It deserves to be re-
written and kept in the most CONVEX,
lent form for reference by every teach
er.
Here is the way the American
Journal of Education prints it: Was
your school so conducted as to make
the pupils, the parents, the taxpayers
all these, anxious to secure your
services for the next term, ever at an
advance.
How did you like Lum Parks
speech at the last association? Didn't
hear III What pity, Will be ON
hand uext time. Don't miss it any
more.
The Association voted thanks to Mr..
+. c. Hubbard for speech he made,
and invited him to attend the next
meeting, July 18th, and favor us with
another. We have his promise and
look for feast Of fat things,