Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-22
STATE NORMAL INSTITUTE
Fifteenth Days Session--L. ure by
Prof. WO0lw Inc.
T Reported officially for the CHRONICLE

with good attendance. New arrivals art
registering every day, and the books now
hold considerable over two hundred names
The first lecture of the morning was BY
Prof. Woolwine, on School Management
He is a good talker and has had a large and
varied experience in the management Of
schools. In his lecture of yesterday morn
ing he said: In this lesson l will enter into
the minutia of school life. The purpose is
to present the true teacher in the school
room. He should be thoroughly prepared
to teach every branch in the curriculum OF
his school, should be just, honest, reliable,
neat in person, and his clothes should fit him.
He should carry himself erect; keep his
nails pared closely, boots blacked, hal,
combed, and never use slang phrases.
refer to this because 1 have reason to be
ieve that slovenness has such an influence
over school that it causes, many times, a
teacher to lose his effectiveness. Never use
threats or punish children in anger. Do all
things quietly; never draw, even chair,
across the floor; speak i'll a low tone; re-
prove your pupils in whisper; never make
promises unless you are certain you can
fulfill them: never accuse children of false
hood in the presence of others be neither
too affectionate nor too severe. Keep every
thing in its place; keep your feet on the
floor; remember the chair has four legs.
Eat nothing in school; throw the ink from
your pen back into the stand instead of on
the floor. Decorate your schoOl-room with
flowers.
The teacher should be the embodiment of
neatness; he may have many virtues to ad-
mire, but he cannot have the respect of the
school without being neat. In the Howard
School l never allow a pupil to be punished
until "a hours after the offense has been
committed. If you give demerit marks let
them know that good conduct of to-day will
not remove those given for offense of yes
terday. Some teachers seem to think they
can get the best results by using honeyed
phrases and a specific amount of kissing.
If you adopt this plan, kiss all, beginning
with the humblest and most unfortunate
Other teachers think by their loud, savage
voice they can awe children into frame of
mind to receive instruction To dis
cipline school with the least friction you
must have programme of the days work,
giving to each recitation enough time. Con
duct the days work in accordance with it.
There should be fixed time for dismission
as well as opening. Each child should be
assigned a seat and should be responsible
for the neatness of desk, floor and books.
No one should be allowed to leave his seat
without the permission of the teacher,
which should be secured by raising his
hand, and should the request be granted,
let him come forward and make his wishes
known in a whisper. The order in the
eohsfan eohSfa s Study occupy t6er time e keep
them out of mischief.
Neither offer prizes or have trolls of
homer" Children who carry off prizes
would succeed without such incentives-and
it discourages the slower and more unfortrl-
nate pupils. Get your patrons generally in
terested Be social become identified with
the community; have their parents to visit
it. Take interest in everything worth your
attention in the neighborhood Make the
lessons attractive. Show deep personal
interest in your pupils devote some time to
each child; discover his hobby and ride
it. When child violates school Law
do not reprove him openly but go to hin
without attracting attention. Appea
to his manliness Frequently yor
will find one or two incorrigible cases. Be
respectful and gentle, yet firm with them
Act as though you expected them to behave
be surprised when they act otherwise. Rails.
the character of your school to such {
standard that those boys cannot afford to dt
wrong. Do not dish out lot of senti
mental gush. Never yawn during recita
tions. Don't allow bright children to re
cite to the neglect of the others. Put tn,
best in class together. Develop system
of self-government, and let each pupi
think he is part of the system. .-
/ Each child should be taught to coptro
himself, as he expects to control himself il
after life. Do not let one child report OF
! another, unless his or the others welfare i
! jeopardized. Society would be unsafe with
out system of reporting. Just as you ar
compelled to report in court, just so mucl
should one report here. If the child ha
courage to report himself, do not punisl
him for the first offense but this must b
managed with skill This is not my opin
ion of school management, but my cours
in school.
When a teacher takes comfortable sea
and finds it too much of an exertion to ste
across his school-room to correct pup
who may be in disorder-who prefers t
speak aloud and reprove the child from hi
seat, and thereby call the attention of ever
child in his school to the offender possibl
arousing his combativeness and all th
other Objectionable traits of his character
increasing the disorder by adding to
himself-such teacher is in a measure
failure to start with.
No one can manage a school who spend
his time ON chairs, or, still worse, sits o
desks and tables. 1t is a mistake to thin
that school teaching requires no bodily exel
else. To be a successful teacher engages a
exercise of all the functions-soul, min
and body There must be action, life
energy, interest, firmness, affection.
Apathy of the teacher is apathy of th
school. A good digestion, good conscience
hearty laugh and warm affection on tn
part of the teacher, are invaluable accesst
ries to success in the schOol-room.
1t would be far better to have an Egyl
tian mummy for teacher than man VIII
can neither enjoy joke nor breakfast.
dyspeptic would make of our happ
SONS and daughters morose, sullen, peevisl
surly grown people. Their mental an
bodily food would sour before it could b
digested.
The second lecture was ON Map Drawing
by Prof W. r. Garrett.
Professor McBryde at the third hour lie,
tured on Botany.
At the fourth hour Professor Joyn,
spoke on the subject of Grammar.
His Last Dose.
Said a sufferer from Kidney troubles whe
asked to try Kidney Wort: 81 will try