River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-10-01
FALL EXAMINATIONS 1885.

The regular examination of appli
cants for teachers certificates for the
fall of 1885 will be held rs follows:
Ellsworth, Oct. 8, o, 10.
Applicants will be required to write
in their own examination districts
and at the time above specified. No
private examinations will be granted
as sufficient amount of regularly
licensed teachers can be had to teach
the schools.
An average OF 65 per cent. will be
required for third grade certificate
for one year and an average of So pei
cent. for limited certificate.
Sessions will begin promptly at a.
m. aud close at noon of third day.
Applicants VIII furnish their own
stationery, pen, black ink, and legal
cap paper. j. A. MURPHY,
Co. Supt. of Schools.
Work is the greatest means of edu
cation. TO train children to work, tC
work Systematically, to love work land
to put their brains into work, may be
called the end and aim of schools
fool. Parker.
The Practical Teacher still holds SUI
premacy as practical paper-one
that every teacher will derive real
benefit from. Those who can rot af-
ford more than one paper should send
for the Practical Teacher.
We are pleased ana encouraged tC
note the eagerness with which the
Reading Circle movement is received
among teachers. We trust that be.
fore spring much real good Will be ac-
complished through this medium.
Every teacher should join and those
outside the teaching fraternity will be
gladly welcomed to the ranks. / will
be pleased to supply all necessary in
formation. After Oct. 18th, the local
managers will be prepared to organize,
receive membership fees and sell the
books of the Elementary course.
The following persons have been APP
pointed as local managers in their diff
ferent localities:
River Falls-Principal Chas. Friedell,
Prescott II. j. McAndrew,
Maiden Rock-B. +. Gilman,
Rock Elm-Harrison Lowater,
Trenton-E. X. Barnard,
Ellsworth j. Brewer.
The Need of Well Qualified Teachers
The New Education does not mean a
thousand superficial, sentimental
nerveless things that are being done
in school rooms under its sacred name.
1t means: the best a0ay that the e.rperi-
euce Of four thousand gears has
drought out Of bringing a skilled
teacher in contact aOith the mind of the
child. And without the wise teacher,
this best way can no more be used
than wild girl just in from Scandl-
navia can cook your dinner with the
patent range. What shall we do!
We only can push on. The dangers
of the New Education are the same as
the dangers of liberty to the freedman;
of republican institutions to our mix
ed American people; OF progress in
every realm of human life. Of course,
where one teacher grasps the central
idea of elf-development through nat
ural methods OF instruction, a score
will vitiate their work by some Ia
mentable mistake. The cure for all is,
TO insist and insist and insist on the
competent teacher. Out of the multi
tudes who are thronging the profess
sion, to let in only those who have
some natural aptitude, some compe-
tency of knowledge, some vital grasp
of fundamental principles, some pow
er to handle rational methods. As
fast as may be, place good teacher
wherever a poor teacher is now at
work. Is this impossible! Discour-
aging, slow, sometimes almost desper-
ate, it may appear. But no man who
has lived fifty years in our country
and knows what has been doTe, be.
lieves any good thing impossible to
the people of this new land. Journal
of Education.