The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1885-08-26
yrsTAKES IN TEACHING.
,.,,va-ec Before tn Teachers In
,atute IN Butler, Aug. l9, by
Miss Frankie Miller. OF
Sedaila.

! In rapidly sketchine over the out
mes or the surface of a subject 50
x4sns;ve as the one now before us.
I've can not fail to notice at glance
,s vast comprehens.veness and the
,.rous manners in which it may be
reated. A subject that has been
srtten upon SO profusely by edu-
.ators, talked upon SO freely and
|,bundantly by scholars, argued and
debated 50 extensively by pedagogues
of all ranks and positions, there Is
vet remaining enough to be SAID to
ill very large volume and require
many OF us a very long time to learn
and believe it. However, with so
hort time for the disposition of so
large subject Git having been as
signed me but last evenlng), shall
not attempt to discuss it, but shall
only note IN general way some OF
nv own mistakes IN the schoolroom
IS the head and leader OF the school,
feeling quite positive that the same
errors have been made. are being
made and are likely to continue to be
made so long as the world stands
we cannot say SO long as the army
is reinforced by misrepresentation
we all know to our sorrow that ire
quently we find teachers-we mean
persons who "keep school'-who
are so fixed in their good opinion OF
their work and so prejudiced against
all other teachers plans and meth
ods that to be told they are in error
would be only grave insult to their
experience of SO many terms.
Perhaps one of the mistakes most
common among teachers and, than
which, nothing can be more ruinous
TO a school, Is over much talking on
the part OF the teacher. With pri-
mary grades we expect to talk much
more than with older pupils. But
many of us can call to mind schools
we have been in-as visitors of course
where the teacher seemed to have
been ''set agoing" atS:45 a. IN. and
never run down" till AGO p IN.
There was one continual stream of
talk, so.tiresome to the pupils that
they gave no attention whatever, ,and
consequently knew nothing that had
been said, and so weary1ng to the
teacher that she is completely ex-
hausted when her 4 go p. m. arrives.
And no wonder she is thin and hag-
gard when the term is up, she has
talked those pupils and herself liter
ally away, instead OF having the
pupils to do the talking. When a
class comes before her to recite she,
very kindly. begins and recites the
entire lesson, explaining every point,
not reserv;ng even the simplest tol
the pupil to reason upon and eNplair
tor himself. When the recitation i,
closed she assigns the lesson tor the
next dav at least three times, ant
the next day has the pleasure of as
signing it AGAIN to each individual
member of the class as he come.
rottlng up to her to ask. ''what l.
the lesson for to-day -
lwould say, then. vet l fear dc
not always follow the rule, we shoull
never repeat anything to pupils. Sa,
only once what we wish to say. au(
II thev are not giving attention the
must take the consequences. |
pupils See that we mean what w
saw. and If we are careful what w
say, and do not say it and keep say
ing 1t, they will hear all that we teI
hem. believe that :, teacher Shout
talk so seldom. aud in such a quiz
zone, that when ever she speaks ,
Tue school, or to any member OF til
school outside the class she NAV b
nearing, every pupil IN the roo
would attend. And it should be
very extreme case that should ca
oe teachers attention away fror
me recitation to another pup;'
Lec'urIng is another form OF per>e