Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-22
Qua covn1Y scsools.
% the 18th ul., I visited the school
tanghtby Nj. .Rifsnbach in

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50 DISTRICT NO. II,
adjoining Yanktous on the Bon Hommei
road. The district is badly proportional
and it, school facilities, ia consequence
thereof, Of such q nature a. to demand q
change in it's size aud boundaries. I hope
therefore, to be able, in time for the next
lssses.mtnt to effect . change id this fespec,
suited to the wants Of The pupils and the de.
nauda ofsths people,
I found the schoolroom filled with a class
Of young YET very intelligent pupils. Con.
Z sidering the existing lack Of proper appli.
ancss, The teachers work and the children's
progress has been eminently satisfactory. l
found the pupils in this school engaged in a
review Q fthe work done during the term.
The teachers method is exact and careful
and displays results in reading not attaina.
bic without y item IN the arrangement and
appliance ofits principles.
I marked q decided Improvement in the
%penmanship ofhis pupils. In geography,
spelling. grammar and arithmetic the in
structionsha has been thorough and their pro-
gfesss ifnot very rapid, is at least ofa nature
to render their foothold firm. Their knowl-
edge of American history vas comprehen.
sive and embraced in the review accomplish.
ed up to the date of my visit, a period
reaching from the earliest discoveries to the
surrender Of Cornwallis.
The people Of the district ask fora per
manent organization and promise to imme.
diately erect q school house.
DISTRICT NO. 10
is situated about 8 miles north of Yankton
and embraces an area of about ten square
miles. The school house in this district
presents . somewhat primitive appearance
from without and yet within, although a
little, contracted, is warm and otherwise rea.
( sonably comfortable. Like many Of ita
class in the country it is on the eve of yield
J ing it's place to one Of greater %pretentions.
visited the school on the 11th uft. 1t
was then being taught BY Mr.. Nolan I'M
der an extension of his term, heightened IS
a consequences of the recognized satisfaction
given By him during the previous four
months. I found the pupils studious and
obedient and in consequence we'll disciplined
and progressive. The teachers manner is
sufficiently flexible toproperly temper the
application of his excellent disciplinary
rules. The adaptability Of his system is OBJ.
servable, therefore, more in the conformity
of his rules to the demands reflected BY his
pupils than in the tendency ofhis discipline
to effect aSrevolution in the faculties of the
child. It is system organized in harmony
with the government of nature rather than
nature fenced about by the restraints of rule
and principal-the teacher shaping his sys.
TEN to the needs of the pupil rather than
reducing the spirit of the pupil 10 the sub
lection ofinapplicable regulations.
I took occasion, while here, to review
their work with them and found the several
classes in reading. spelling, penmanship,
geography, arithmetic and grammar, we'll
informed as far as they had advanced.
Their progress in some of the studies has
been very rapid; in others steady.
I left the school with a feeling fully in
sympathy with the satisfaction that prevails
throughout the district with the teachers
work. Satisfied, too. that the regularity Of
their attendance contributes greatly to the
success which the term has DEVELOPED.
The school in
DISTRICT NO. 10
has been taught during theSwinter BY Law.
renee Olsen. OF the twenty-seven pupils en-.
rolled here twentv-four were present on the
dav Of my visit. The teacher, until recent
~ himself a pupil in the Yankton high
school, has charge of his first school here,
and appears to adapt himself with ease to
the requirements Of his position. While
his pupils have been classified largely with
> view to convenience and economy, IN time,
. proper view of their attaiuments has not
been entirely lost. The consequences is that
perhaps IS fair an arrangement exists a., aid
things duly considered, can veil be attained
70 at present. Close application to their stu.
dies as q general thing, prevails among the /,
and, if my first observations upon
the school impressed me with I
. -sense of the teachers decipIinary tact,
l found ample reason before l left, to +,
the dietrict on the diligence !
displayed by the children. Reading. !
spelling. penmanship. arithmetic and geog. {
raphy are taught here with the varying re- !.
'ults inseparable from a school where the !
pupils finds his standard of perfection ia the !
regulations Of m unvaryine system. There I
this difference between Mr.. M'Lain's and !
Olsen's schools, in this one the child il {
'.nght to understand the borrowed resula-
ion and brought into conformity with is
In that one the regulation re-
,siyes its specific virtue from q proper un-
Of the child. Both systens
AVE their advocates and I doubt the wisdom
# interfering with the individual prefer.
Of the respective teachers while our
county schoolA 90 widely differing in their
require at different points . differ.
nee ip administration.
ITanEDksrxieR no. -
) situated In the southwest corner Of the