River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-03-13
Educational.
EE.s. BAKER, A. a.. editor.
COUNTY uPRRrErEEnrET

Qua legislature defeated several fool
ish educational bills and passed one.
WE shall be glad to place boards in
correspondence with some good teach
ers, male or female.
VERY hourishing branch of the
Library Association is in operation in
Maiden Rock. F. W. Spear Librarian.
| THE Association which was to be
held on Saturday is postponed for
awhile.
WE can do but very little TO help be-
| ginners to = school, especially when
the certificate is ordinary, for Pierce
county boards dislike to risk too much.
The spring term at the Institute
commences next Monday The pros
pect is that there will be q fair attend
ance and ~ viii nave an opportunity
to do good york and a plenty Of it,
MISS IpA CArrENrEa, elosedhe school
at Spring Valley. Friday, Feb. 28th.
She is also engaged to teach the sum
ner term at same place. Minnie
IIorstai is engaged for tile summer
term in Che Stratton district. John
A. Martin has dismissed school for one
week on account Of the sickness Of
some of the pupils. b.
AIM as originality as we'll as weight
in inyenting excuses for private eX-
animation. Even the old standard.
y was out of the county, strikes the
humorous side Of our nature from the
air of evident satisfaction with which
it is usually given, as if it was the
best excuse in market. Il did not
expect to teach, had a good run last
winter.
The time is near at hand when those
young men and women who have spent
the winter in play, will come TO exam
nation with trembling and leave it in
disgust. Upon receipt of standings
the county superintendent throughout
the state will hear the usual cry of
you showed partiaHty." Some will
beg for permits. Our own sympa-
thy will not be fritted away upon those
whose names are upon our reports as
the "worst pupils in department.
Wasting time is crime that bring
awful retribution.
The condition of The country justi-
fies the payment of fairly low wages,
especially when they have in a given
branch been at imitation rates. But
we cannot admit that the pay of COM
mon school teachers has been exorbi-
tant or hardly fair. However, if they
must be reduced then does it not APP
pear slightly avaricious TO keep the
p!ice of board as high as when provi-
sions were four times as dear! Ii you
wrong a profession he gonsistant.
Three dollars viii buy large amount
Of meat as well as labor. Some dis
tricts are reasonable.
UPON or term and monthly reports
are the names OF one or two hundred
pupils in the county, put down oppo-
! site the direction, ''Name your worst
pupils in department. We have Of
ten thought that it would check the
tendency to petty annoyances to pub
lish that list in this column to warn
incoming teachers. We have given
the ''best pupils in department,
why not the worst. Some of the large
pupils would be surprised, buJ not
battered. If any teacher does not
care to have the entire list as he has
given us, or any part of it appear. let
us hear from him by card,
WE might name several good teach
ers who OUGHT to he in Pierce county,
INT have gone to st. CroiX or expect
TO Z there for better wages. That is
the most discOuragi outlook for our
schO pls, Among those who lave de-
serted us, and justifably, are W. j.
Gray, in Hammond; G. W. Beers. Star
Prairie; also, w. Lauder, Augusta
Wales, Pleasant Valley Mrs. NJ. L.
Maxgood, New Centerville; Josie Had
ley, several towns; W. L. Webster,
| Cylon. These things will tell in time.
4 board that lets fifteen dollars spoil
three months term by giving TWEEN
| ty-fve dollars per month to begir-
ners, are making Pierce county field
of practice to benefit st. Croix.
| We know teachers whose methods
are correct mechanically and yet they
fail to arouse any particle of interest.
Whyl Because they lack the enthu-
siasm which IS needed to inspire put
pills with love for work. If a teach
er's mind is doting upon something be-
sides the school, the pupils will also
| have their interests elsewhere. Hence
we cannot advise any to continue to
| teach, who do not like the business.
| DO have some life. That not buster.
| but quiet determination to do ones
/ uulS Detduot nc Inns ~ w nbs anu lIO
one who drags out term, looking to
the end Of it with longing, can do good
work, although we have the learning
of Agassiz and the skill of Horace
Mann. Enthusiasm is the foundation
of success.
WE regret to learn that our legisla-
ture has placed Constitutions again
upon the list of studies in which teach
ers must be examined. We will make
The spring examination special in the
legislative branches of government.
Now if our law makers will follow out
this retrograding policy, and put In
| ternational Law, Hebrew, Greek aud
Latin in the requirements, and crowd
out the two sciencies in the second
grade list, they viii soon have a cur
riculEn which any barbarian of the
dark ages would be ashamed to defend.
and which is more untitled for the
| 10Th century than the course Of King
/ Alfred's time. But we must thy inn
possibilities. if legislators order. We