River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-08-07
Educational.
HIS. BAKER, A. As..Editor
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT.

TnE extreme feal Of over work causes
about one half tue failures we sec. and
time and energy fnttered away upon
amusements of eXhausting character i
large part of the other half.
''0rR teacher does too much spark.
ing, is not an uncommon complaint,
that reaches us. That occupation is
necessary, bnt the party OF the second
part. should not ruin the school work
of party No. /, even ii patience needs
stretching to its utmost tension for
two OF three months.
BEER drinking ruins the intellect,
health ana morals. The doctor who
will prescribe beer as IL medicine is Il
fraud ia quack. Beer ruins health.
Beer drinkers are short lived people.
Beer ruins intellect. Beer drinkers
ae dull, stupid, clamish. - Temper
dnce Investigator.
NINA CARPENTER, in her own district,
Salem, disappointed us favorably, The
more SO, because success ut home the
first term is not the rule, and we nj
ways discourage one from trying, es-
pecially the first time, the school they
have attended. Hard work and CON
slant thought, secured good dicipliuc
and order III movement. Among the
points of special merit, we noted dec
lamationS, gymnastics, general eXer-
else in physiology, correct seating, and
good position of writing class.
WHEN teacher tells us that he is
thorough and we learn that the
thorOughness consists in memorizing
textbook definitions before the oper-
atoms allHded to arc even under con-
sideration, We are sorroy for the pu-
pills. They might as well memorize
the decalogue in Hebrew so far as any
possible mental benefit is concerned.
We would give memory even more
cultivation than it receives. But the
memorizing should be upon words and
ideas which the child compreheuds.
The opposite course is simply murder
ing the faculty. Think first, then
commit.
SOME teachers say. or have said that
pupils will modest plants and flowers,
placed in school room windows. We
have yet to learn that they have done
so in single instance. They are CIV
liners, and the custom is accomplish
ed in Pierce county. Pictures in the
school room are also beneficial i'll the
same line. Appeal to the higher fac
ulties in human nature and the lower
ones will cease to be supreme. Ii
teachers could give the intellectual,
moral, or even esthetic capabilities,
work under high pressure, quarreling.
vulgarity, ETC., would not appear dur
ing school hours.
WILL CADwEIL, Spring Grove district,
Trimbelle, although he had been there
before, managed to have an enroll
ment of 10 during the summer term,
against II last winter. When the
compulsory education law comes into
force we shall note and see the posi-
bilities of that small school house.
New Books helped his work. Pictures
and notices did their work upon the
children. Reading in upper classes
good. Drawing. (IIow did he find
time?-H. S, b. Glasses in lower
reading did some work in printing.
Historical students know that some
generals can only command with cred
it brigade. Mr.. G.. can command a
corps.
INSTITUTES We made an application
for All Institute this fall the last week
III August, bit the powers that control
them decided that the proximity of the
Normal School rendered one less nee
essary here than at other places.
While we bow submissiyely, we are
trying to seek out the reason why all
other counties which contain Nor.
mails should have the services of con.
ductors, in two cases, for two weeks,
and Pierce be denied for a second
time. We feel that this explanation
is due to the teachers who desired the
privileges of an institute at River
Falls. The institute in WinnebagO
county is but 10 miles from the school.
at Oshkosh, a fact which still further
complexities the problem.