River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-06-05
Educational.
HIS. BAK Err. A. r.. Editor.
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dcGS u uiooDouitiltt DccdttSe bilty COulu
not have the teacher they wished.
Be busy, active; keep the body in
good condition by plenty of exercise;
have something in the mind always;
be hard student; never let up. and
you will live as long as you desire. --Er.
WE ARE pleased to hear from so many
teachers that they are adopting the
plan of seating by grades, aud saving
time and noise 10y having reeitations
in the seats, pupils standing in place
to recite.
GREAT workers have heen proverbial-
ly long livers. Take William Cullen
Bryant as an example. Those who are
great workers and die young, would
have died younger had they not work
ed SO hard.-E.r.
HAVE the pupils seated in sections
snd reclte i'll their seats. except tue
primer and first reader classes. They
come to the recitation seats. 1t is a
very good method to have the scholars
recite at their seats. KATIE CREAM,
No. 2, Ellsworth.
HAVING received request from so
many teachers to refrain from publish
ing the list, taken from reports. of the
.'worst pupils in department, we shall
publish such lists as the teachers who
made them shall say they are willing
to see in print. Let us hear from you.
WORK never kills men. They rust
out and decay often. but never die of
over work. Idleness never prepares
for activity. This is one of the grand
est hurnbugs of the age. Change of
work is absolutely demanded. But
want of work, never Barnes Month
iy.
No PARENT with a proper sense of his
responsibility, can throw all RESPONSE
bility upon the tutor. however wise that
tutor may be, and he will evince great
anxiety, when he is compelled to trust
his child to the care of one whose
physiognomy bears the stamp of inef.
ficiency, and lack of judgment.
NJ. L. MAxGooD.
PEsTALozzI, who was one of the Pic
neers of progression in the science of
education, il said to have been man
of quite falliblc Judgment, even in
carrying out his own pet theories; yet
his keen insight. his warm sympathies,
and great love for his work seemed to
put him en- rapport with child nature.
NJ. l.. MAxGooD.
My school is progressing finely. /
have seated the pupils in grades, and
hear them recite in their seats, except
the primer class whicfreads from the
board. like it much Do0tor than re
citing in seats. | teach music, which
the pupils all seemed to like, using
LOOMS first steps in music as text
book. NANCY CoRNELISoN.
No. |, Trimbelle.
THE constant use of beer is found to
produce a species of degeneration of
all the organism, profund and deep
seated. Intellectually, stupor,
amounting almost to paralysis arrests
the reason, precipitating all the higher
faculties into mere anlmallsm; sens
ual, selfish, sluggish, varied only by
paroXysmS of anger that are senseless
and brutal.-QuarterIy Journal Of IN
ebriety.
THE Wisconsin Journal of Education
for May contains ten pages of matter
contributed by Wisconsin teachers, and
eighteen pages of selected" Either
our own teachers do not rush into
print as fiercely as those from other
states, or else their original contribu-
tions are not considered worth publica-
ton. We should be pleased to see
Wisconsin able to carry an educational
journal, or the greater part of one.
without drawing on cheap periodicals
in newer states.
THE State Superintendent has re.
quested us to give the results of the
attempt to introduce botany into Pierce
county schools. We ask every teacher
who has taught it to send us the meth
cd and matter which he has used, and
the interest manifested by the pupils.
Tell us what you have done, as well as
what you are doing the present term.
If you can fill card only with facts
send it. We also desire to publish
somewhat of your experience IL this
department, anonymously, if you ask
it.
If WE should publish list of teach
ers who have missed second term on
account of their .'wildness, and ques.
tlonable habits, there would be several
surprised individuals. But we shall
not. If any one stops to think, he
knows that he values the knowledge
That his children acquire from books
far less than the acquisition of correct
habits. and sound morality. Against
which will parent rebel more quickly
the teacher who gives erroneous in
struction in reading, or the one who
tells his pupils that profanity, tippling
stealing and lying are not essenti al to
manhood and womanhood of the high
est type, and enforces the precept by
examplel
WE KNOW few families who usually,
during the first month of school, get
some petty grievance against the teach
er, usually born of the imagination
and then take them from school. and
speak against it at all times. Under
this treatment children come to think
that there are no perfect people. ex
cept those at home. They become sui
len. conceited, and unsocial with the
world, and chiefly enjoy basking in the
sunlight of their self esteem. People
who do not mix with outsiders, to
some extent, soon becorle morbidly