Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-12-01
SCHOOL GOVERNMENTS -
c0GDEssED DIRECTIONS.

|. School discipline, like instruction,
will take form from the temperament
and character of the teacher. A repu.
tation for impartial Judgment is the
essential requisite Of the teacher who
governs well.
2. Make but few rules, and do not
indulge in much talking about infringe.
ments OF them. Remember that pupils,
as well as teachers, have rights, and
that both have duties
3. Put yourself in the place Of your
pupils Recall your own school expert
ences, your hopes and fears, your i'm
pulses, your notions, and the motives
that Influenced you. fyou do so, you
cannot become tyrant.
4. Secure order, if possible, without
corporal punishment; but secure obedi-
ence at all hazards. In school, as 10
an army, discipline is essential TO ex.
istonce.
3. The best way to lead pupils to
study is, not by threats and compulsion,
but by showing them how TO use their
textbooks, by explaining and illus.
trating their hard lessons, and by mp.
pealing to their higher motives
G. Do not tempt your pupils to be.
come habitually deceitful and untruth.
iul, by making use of the "selGreport-
ing system" in scholarship and deport.
ment. 1t is a device worthy of the
lnquistion. at is says F. S. Jewell,
"both stupidly ingenious and trans.
parently vicious,
T. Regard all pupils as truthful until
you have positive proof to the contrary.
Children with high sense of honor
will never forgive you for doubling
their word, or for making an unjust
accusation. "The only teacher ever
intensely hated, said noted instructor,
"was young woman who charged me,
unjustly, before the school, with telling
a lie, when was only seven years old.'
Trust your pupils if you want them TO
put their trust in you. "The sweetest
praise ever heard" said public man,
twas the remark made by my father
when ! was twelve years old MY boy
never told me n lie in his life"
8. Encourage truthiulness by re-
warding full and frank confession with
a remission Of penalties, so far as is
consistent with school discipline. Sc
verify is one of the chief causes Of lying
and deceit. 1t excites fear, and fear
seeks an easy refuge in cunning and
evasion.
0. Whispering must be reprcssed
with a firm hand, 1t cannot be en-.
tirely prevented, but it may be check
ed so as to prevent disturbance. One
good way of checking il is to allow
short whispcringrccess every hour or
halfhour.
10. As prevention is better than
punishment, children should be trained
to a general habit Of prompt obedience
in minor matters, so that finally they
will submit readily to prohibitions
which curb their inclinations and
tendencies.
ii. Penalties and punishments must
be certain, and must seem TO be the ia.
tural consequences of wrong acts. The
child should know what he has TO ex.
pect, and when to expect il. There
must bo no caprice, no variableness,
no shadowof turning. The child soon
learns TO yield TO the inevitable.
IL. Do not worry do not be dis.
couraged think that your agitation,
your nervousness, will extend to your
pupils. Unite patience with hope, gen.
tlcness with firmness, oquanimity with
force OF character. Have pleasant
voice and cheerful countcnance, and
show yourself the sincere friend Of
oycry pupil let your school be one
that will always have agreeable asso.
Citations connected with it but IL an
emergency comes, be prompt and reso-
lutte to meet il, but dliOays calm.
Concluded merit 0eek.l
'From "Me,hodi Of Teaching" BY John swsit