Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-03-15

EDUCATIONAL. |
K. NJ. wooD, A. NJ. Editor |
Promote as an object of primary importance |
INSTITUTIONS Tor the general diffusion OF know |
ledge ~ proportion Ms the structure of Gov |
erment gives force to public opinion IL is neccs-
sary that public opinion should be enlightened |
-Washington's Farewell Address.
Nothing great was ever achieved with |
out enthusiasm Emerson.
The Board of Education paid our
school an appreciated visit last Thurs
day.
An Idler is watch that wants both
hands; as useless if it goes, as when it
stands. - Cowper.
DO you eoyet learning's prizes
Climb her heights and take H.
In ourselves our fortune lies;
Life Is what we make it,
Experience is a dear school," but
she has large school. For terms of
tuition and full particulars. inquire in
person.-Er.
Cowaidice asks: Is it safe? Expe-
diency asks: Is it polite? Vanity asks:
Is it popular? But Conscience asks: Is
ii right!-Anon.
The Maryland Gazette, = of February
%, 177l, had this: ITO be sold.
schoolmaster and indented servant, who
has two years to serve
Conquer myself. Till thou hast done
that, tnou art a slave; for it is almost AS
well to be in subsection to another's
appetite as thy own Murton.
The happiness of life depends on the re-
gular prosecution Of some laudable pur-
pose or lawful calling. which engages,
helps and enlivens all our powers. ~.
Jay.
All who have meditated On the art of
governing mankind, have been con-
WINGED that the fate of empires depends
on the proper education of our youth.
--44ristotle.
The Educational column of the Grant
County Witness of last week contains
an excellent discussion on the subject:
"Moral and Religious Instruction in our
common schools
A lad in one of our schools being
asked, what is Rhode Island cele-
brated for?' replied, at is the only
one of the New England States which
is the smallest. - Boston journal.
The students seem to have adopted
school badge. 1t is worn under the
chin, and tied at the crown of the
head. So far, it has been donned only
at home, but is in very general use.
The election at the last meeting of the
Philomathean Society resulted as fol-
lows: Vice-Pres., Geo. Muesse; Sec'y,
Miss Clara Jones; Treas, Lintner MUIR
phey; Critics. Misses Meyer, Crowle,
and Ida Thomas; Usher, Chas. Burr.
Our High School contains no appara-
tus whatever for Mechanics, Hydrostat-
les, Acoustics, Pneumatics or Optics;
all important subjects of Natural Phil
osophy. The difficulty of teaching
this branch without an apparatus is I'M
questioned. An air pump is most espec-
tally needed Who will honor himself
by a donation?
Daughter (home from school) Now
papa. are you satisfied? Just look at
my testimonial-"Poli economy.
satisfactory; fine arts and music, yery
good; logic, excellent Father-Very
much SO, my dear--especially as re-
CARDS your future. If your husband
should understand anything of house
keeping. cooking. mending and the use
of sewing machine, perhaps your mar
ried life will indeed be happy.-Er.
The following illustrates the kind of
an excuse for absence that teacher
| likes to receive:
| Please excuse" absence
from school, as she has been affected
with humps on the other side of her
face. Being obliged to be absent from
school has been more painful to herthan
the disease. She constantly regrets the
irregularity in attendance this term.
| Yours,
Friday Morn, March 9, 1871
Few persons perish from pure mental
exhaustion alone; and it is very doubtful
whether the pupils of our schools suffer
so much from this cause as is some-
times imagined. During an experience
of nearly twenty years in the school
room, we have met with but limited
number of cases injured by overstudy;
yet we have seen very many whose sys-
TENS have been more or less broken by
the neglect Of hygiene, both in and out
of the school-room, and during the
hours of sleep. Martindale's Physiology
Students, especially of the higher
grades should be impressed with the
thought that their school experience
ought to be an earnest work. The
1
knowledge that they may acquire and
the mental habits that they may form
during very few years of their pre-
sent life will determine to great extent
theis futures. Can they, then, afford to
slight their school duties? Should they
not perform them with the same earnest
activity and conscientious fidelity that
would be required for success in other
| vocations?
This column is designed not so much
to entertain and soothe, as to
4 inform apd u,roEoo ;ts ron darS