The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-01-23
NUMBER 81
EDUCATIONAL.
Over-Taxation OF the Mental Powers In
Childhood and the Necessity forth
Fullest Amount Of Sleep.
Our Present school System Injurious Too
Little Attention Given 20 the study OF
Hcsthatics--Currept Items.
CURRENT OPINIONS.

Little Attention Given 20 the Study OF
Acsthatics-Current Items.
CURRENT OPINIONS
There are two grades or kinds of map
study for beginners viz, the study in
volyed in the making of map on board
or slate. and the study or interpreta-
ton OF printed map. OF these there
should also be an intermingling; but in
elementary study, map making or map
drawing should precede the study OF
printed maps. Ind. Sch Journal.
1t is worthy of consideration, too,
whether, instead Of any inAexible
course of study. 1t might not be better
to provide that good work on the part
| of o pupil In any three lines OF study
s'-ouia srtitla him 70 graduate, ana.fho
diploma Of the school. ---B r Wright,
SNpt. Schools, ST. Paul
You must do something for your
school besides listening to recitations.
You should do something for which you
will be remembered. Leave your mark.
Stir up the people. Make them appre-
ciate and want new methods Put
something into the school-house. Sup
ply It's needs. Where there Is will
there Is way The Iona Teacher.
Any teacher can be OF some help TO
bright pupils; only the best teacher can
really aid dull children. II wish that
boy was out of my school" said of
dull pupil, marks selfish II not cruel
teacher, while a genuine love for the
weak and backward shows the heart of
true teacher. Many pupils are dull
because they have dull teachers. Park
er's Practical Teacher.
Every law looking TO the well-being
of the schools must depend largely up
on the teacher and his qualification for
its success, and many OF the best enact.
ments have been made In compliance
with opinions expressed at county and
provincial conventions OF teachers,-
opinions expressed In accordance with
a thorough acquaintance on the part of
the teachers with the real, not the
imaginary, wants Of the community
The Canada Educational Monthly.
When the teacher has shown by his
requirements that he Is entitled to
certificate, then this should be an end
of the whole matter so far as the
branches upon which he has been ex-
amined are concerned. But now, in
order to make bis preparation effective,
the true, higher, and more comprehen-
siye work OF the teacher should begin.
There should be prescribed for him, un-
der proper legislation, course Of read
ing and study outside and beyond bis
common school curriculum. Upon set
portions of this course every teacher
throughout the state, and. II possible,
throughout the United States. should
be examined quarterly at his county in
stitute, of which every teacher should
be member. Such course should be
prescribed as to take from three to five
years to complete it.-7sSas School
Journal.
The teachers OF this country need to
devote more attention to the study of
aesthetics. Too little attention is given
In our schools to the cultivation OF the
aesthetic emotions of our pupils, --to
that part of their nature which Is In
sympathy with the beautiful in nature.
art, and humanity. That Is altogether
too narrow a view which limits the
word education In Its meaning to the
knowledge of books acquired at school.
There is a higher education. nobler
culture. and a more graceful refine
ment than that which comes from the
world Of books alone. That system Of
school training which sends forth TO
the world ready ciphering. writing, and
parsing machines, but with no elera-
ton of soul, with their finer feelings
unawakened, and with no perception
Of the beautiful, results in an education
which is like tree stripped of its beau
tiful foliage. no beauty. no symmetry.
nothing but trunk, and bare and spind-
ling branches. Yet such is the educa-
ton acquired In too many of our
schools. - Ohio Ed. Monthly.
The psychology that the teacher
needs to know is: (1) What are the
conditions, that is, what must be sup
piled, or be assumed to exist,
the mind will perceive, or remember,or
imagine. or generalize and classify. or
reasonP (2) What is the exact nature
OF each one of these processesp Each
Is complex. What are the differing
processes that unite to make each OF
these complex actse (S) What are the
peculiarities or characteristics OF each
Of the mental products resulting from
the action of these different facultiesp-
Prof @. p. Broom. Indiana.
There is no such thing as new edu-
cation, In the sense OF something re.
Gently discovered which was heretofore
unknown. No new principles have
been discovered. The newness consists
in the wider diffusion OF educational
ideas, and In the wiser and more gen.
eral application Of old principles. One
of the speakers deprecated the use OF
the term "new education" as mislead.
Ing. Its fippant use by every educa-
tlonal lobbyist has tendency to make
young teachers think that II Is a recent
discovery or invention. and that "there
is some place where they can 60 and
get it ready-made. "--Reportin WIsco,,-
sin Jour Of Education Of Pennsylcanta
Discussion.
SLEEP.
One of the first indications Of APP
preaching danger to mental integrity
Is an inability to sleep. This symptom
is generally present quite early in the
history Of acute insanity and nervous
exhaustion. warning us that the safety