Daily Republican., 1884-02-18
PUBLIC hCNOOIS.
Teac chers-Physicai h TraiufDg, Con.
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iinued.
Next TO ventilation IL cleanliness.
The house should be kept clean, and AS
free from dust as possible. Every
teacher should have q gallon watering
can, and keep the school house sprin klcd
sufficient to keep the dust down. This
should be done Two or three times IN
the morning and afternoon, enough 70
prevent the dust from rising. If the
house is sufficiently warm and ven,i-
lated, with water on the s'ove, the
teacher and pupils will be greatly bene-
fitted. If the writer had not pursued
this method when teaching he could
not have stood the work on account OF
the dust. The teacher should be very
careful not 10 allow children To 20 out
at The time of recess when it Is raining,
or in the country when very muddy.
Let them have recess in the school
house-qnietly moving among each
other, holding conversation and enter
tanning each other in quiet manner.
This Is much better than going out and
laying in the rain, as we zee them
almost everywhere. Again, when they
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they naturally do, do not allow them 10
throw off their clothes, or part OF them,
and then sit in the window that Is W,
OF in adraught. The writer knew ii
school teacher twenty-five years ago,
hey ond the mountains, who had been
teaching forty years, but was ti'y
years ahead Of the time in that country.
lie would require children TO have n
pair OF slippers in the school-house, and
when they came to school in the win
ter he would have them remove their
boots and sGoes, warm them while tn y
wore The slippers, and then put them
on again. He was very particular with
regard TO the dust in the scnOol'room.
Whenever be heard of person dying
with consumption he would inquire
how they got T.; if it was not hereditary
he believed it was acquired in the
school. room.
The lungs of children are very tender
and easily affected. The seeds of com
sumption ARE no doubt sown in the
dirty, dusty school. house. In COnnec
ton with what is said above, children
SHOULD be taught TO never come to
school unless they are clean and tidy,
even iftheir clothes are common. AT
HE school house there should be ample
means to clear the feet, and scholars
required TO use the means for said pur-
pose, and not bring dirt into the house,
or sit with muddy shoes, or damp
clothes.
SYMPATHY-ORDER.
Another qualification of the teacher
not requiring special natural endow
ments, but coming within the reach Of
everyone wlo is willing to do the work,
with every member Of his school,
whether poor or rich, male or female,
entering with feeling into their joys
and sorrows, their successes and dlsap
pointments. IL is not necessary that
he or she should make a gushing
speech on some.grand occasion to gain su
preme ascenlency over the heartso of the
scholars, but by neutrality-suspicious.
az the occasion 1equire,all the time, and
to all alike. No teacher can reach the
full measure of success who does not
make every scholar feel that they are
indi ividualiy known by him, and have
in him really sympathizing friend,
and no one need fail in this who Is will.
ing TO bestow the proper labor upon his
work.
Order is said to be the first law of
nature.
The teacher snould possess strong
personality, executive ability, self
control, pronptness and preparation.
He is not 10 he an autocrat, Chat il
one who is invested with absolute, in
dependent powec,) but an executive
officer. Hence, obedience to law is the
first duty Of teacher, and the neces-
sary condition Of his authority over his
school. He must show ihat he seeks
obplence to law, and submission to his
own will. He must obey, that he may
De obeyed. IL was once said, wittily i
"lf lie should only keep still himself
tor one day, his scholars would be 80
surprised that they would not he able
to make any noise for month
Nervousness, anxiety and eXcitahility
are as ditiusive AS electricity. Posi-
iiveness is needed, hut the teachers
face, # ever dark, "should have the
darkness spanned by rainbow" The
rule of order should be strictly applied
to the children ON their rttuIn from
school. and during recess. On their re-
,uru home, quiet and decorum should
be required, az well us rrolpptness and
affabiIity. As no teacher can be sue
co.stul without order, it is OF the highest
importance that this element should be
studied and practiced carefully, and if
after a fair trial he or she finds that
they cannot reduce the school to order,
should promptly resign, and the schooi
committee should az promptly accept
the tsignatiOD.
A TEACHER.