Mower County transcript., 1888-07-18
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The annual school meeting in all dis.
tricts will be held next Saturday. ,.s=
Tho globe is too often a NEGLECTED piece
of apparatus in the school room. Its ad-
vaptages are not fully measured by many
teachers J~.. ~st*
Make your pupils familiar with COM
mon things, such as, days Of the week;
number and names of months; points Of
the compass; why do we say the sun rises
in the east2 the colors; or to tell time OF
day by clocks, etc. This to be carried
into miscellaneous work, queries, etc.
| One method of securing attention in a
reading class is as follows: Teacher IN
forms the class that each one must be
ready to begin Immediately when his
y name is called. Stop the pupil who Is
reading in the midst of sentence, and
the next one named must be ready to go
right on. All who pay attention will be
able to do this readily.
School Education: Teachers are fast
gong over to the sensible view that COM
mitting the ordinary school geography to
memory is like learning an encyclopedia
by heart. These biographies are we'll
enough as books of reference, for which
they can only be profitably used as a
whole. The days of senseless name
memorizing are numbered. Superintend-
ent Luckey, of Pittsburgh, teaches geo.
graphy from histories, reading lessons,
compositions, and newspapers, using the
biographies, along with maps, aliases,
and cyclopedias. as books of reference.
This seems rational way out of an old
difficulty.
This is another capital aid in reading
Take u story that the class has not seen,
look it through carefully and mark Il
with a pencil into divisions so that each
shall have distinct idea in the story
Then have one scholar take the book and
read the first division; then passing it to
the second he reads division, and so on
through the story. Then the first begins,
and tells his part of the story, and the
next, on to the end. 1t is capital Test
of reading and of story telling.
| Two Successive Letters.
School Journal: Will you please give
information upon the best method of
pronouncing two similar letters in sue.
cession? Is the old custom of saying
double s, for instance, returning to favor
or does the newer practice of calling each
letter separately as, $, s, still remain in
the best schools? A TEACHER.
The latter method is most used, though
the former still exists. Pronouncing
each letter separately is the better way
Stammering.
Will you please tell US how to correct
stammering in boy of twelve and
oblige. A SUBSCRIBER.
Stammering results mainly from ner-
vousness. This nervousness causes haste
in speaking, hence stammering. To cure
it, exact always slow and distinct pro-
nunciation of each syllable and each
| word. Allow nothing else. Stammering
can always be cured If taken before the
habit becomes fixed, which it does at the
age of eighteen or twenty.
School Education: What knowledge
of geography. of arithmetic, of reading,
OF language, is OF most worth? Many
people make no distinction in learning
about the Mississippi, the Danube, or the
Seine, and some "Waddy" in Africa, or
a tenth-class river IN Asia, which nobody
ever saw. and of which the very existence
is in doubt. Every day and every hour
the student and reader must answer, we'll
or ill, the question What knowledge is
of most worth?" Upon the intelligent
answer to this question depends our in
dividual places in the scale of knowledge
whether we are scholars or educated
fools.
General Garfield once said: "a log
with Mark Hopkins at one end and a
young man at the other would be a uni.
versity." A birch switch with q Yankee
schoolma'am at one end oft, and Yam
kee lad at the other is all the university
a good many successful business men
ever knew.
Preserve the Voice of the Child.
Most teaching of elocution consists in
trying to correct faults acquired by bad
teaching in primary schools. Listen to
the merry voices of children on the play.
ground, and then listen in the school
room. The greatest elocutionists have
discovered the true principles by observ-
ing little children. A defect in articula-
tion can he cured by following exactly