Daily Republican., 1879-09-09

study shown during the year. Th.
addition two years ago of two new sub
jscss, definitions and compositions, and
composition in the elementary examin.
ations have made it more difficult to gel
the eighty per cent. necessary to obtain
q two years. certificate. Some teachers
complain bitterly because they are sub.
jected to these examinations. Others,
more wisely, go chesrfully to work for
permanent certificates, and where they
have not forced themselves into teach
ing before they were prepared, got in
two examinations the certificate that
exempts them from all future examins-
tiOns.
INTERESTING PUPILS IN STUDY.
To teach successfully teachers must
interest their pupils in study. must
make them want to learn. To interest
children in study the teacher must be
interested himself, his mind must glow
with the love Of acquiring and impart-
ing knowledge. It is important that a
teacher should be good scholar, but
it is more important that he Should be
a good learner. To interest children
the teacher must know the motives that
actuate and the influences that control
them, must bs familiar with the great
diversity of mind, and have recourse to
a great variety of means and methods.
To classify pupils, to arrange wisely
the order of recitations, to assign les
SONS, explain their difficulties and to
hear the lessons recited, are essentials
Of good teaching, but they are not the
whole Of teaching.
The lessons In the best school books
are SO we'll graded and the difficult
points are SO clearly and fully ex-
planned that pupils who desire to learn
can go forward with their studies with
little difficulty or danger Of error. The
teachers most important work is to get
pupils to study, to make them not only
to want to learn, but TO try earnestly
and persisteutly to learn. The desire Of
knowledge may bs innate, but it is
strong enough in many minds to carry
them far up the hill of learning. The
future benefit of knowledge may have
some, but it seldom has much influence
in causing children to learn. The
principal motives to study with them
are sense of duty to their parents and
and desire to stand we'll in
their classes, and to sustain the rsputa-
lion Of their clssses, and schools. Get
= community Of intelligent parents in
terested in the moral and intelligent
'ulture of their children, and al
.eacher of proper attainments of
mind and qualities of heart and
! good school is a certain result. Un
Ter sucL circumstances the innate de-
lire of knowledge will grow, correct
conceptions of the future benefits of
knowledge will be formed and will have
heir influence in causing the child to
'tudy and the sense of duty that
pupils to study because their
parents and teachers desire it will be
When the parents and
'riends of the Pupils are intelligent and
heir influence is decidedly in favor of
'ducation, the teacher has in them a
powerful auxiliary. When parents are
and absorbed in pursuits hav-
title connection with the subjects
aught in school, their children find at
lome no sympathy in their school work
nd no incentive to study. In the case
t this latter class of children the home
instead of uniting with and
the influence of the teacher
and weakens it..