Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-28
EDUCATIONAL TOPICS.

You can't renovate the town the
first year you are on the school COM
| mittee.
Look out for good points in your
teachers, and let them know that they
are appreciated.
1t is your privilege to createa kindly
feeling between teacher aHd pupil in
many Il turbulent school district.
Unnecessary directions indicate lack
of thought, lack of preparation, or
lack of ability on the part of Il teacher.
Rarely, if ever, ask a question that
can be answered by yes or mo"
State the question so as to require a
statement in the answer.
If YOU don't expect to buy two
hundred dollar horse for half the
money, why should You hope to get
seventy-fve dollar teacher for twenty
five dollars?
a teacher values a word of apprecia-
ton and encouragement from her
superior officer, rs much rs one OF her
pupils enjoys a bit Of praise from his
commander-in-chic
In the erection of new school build
ings insist upon having some voice in
the plans. Look carefully to the
quality and direction of light, also to
the sanitary arrangements.
If teacher talks too much Ill
schoOlrOOm virtues count for nauoht
We know of no combination of good
traits that cOunterbalance such a grave
evil as teachers tongue in perpetual
motion.
In town where there is no su perin-
tendent Of schools, the committee holds
much the same relation to the teacher
that the teacher sustains to the pupils,
and is bound to help her on toward
perfection in her work, as she is to
bring her pupils forward in theirs.
That young sophomore who taught
in your district last winter will make
an excellent teacher when he has over
come one or two points. Have you
improved your opportunity to show
him those defects. and so benefit not
him alone but the schools which VIII be
under his charge in future?
We frequently hear teachers scoId a
class, or order pupils to stay after
school because they are unprepared for
recitation, when the teacher shows
more plainly than they that she has
made absolutely no preparation for the
class exercise, has given it no thought
Who most deserves scOlding?
Never bear with pointless criticism.
1t is utter decentralization for a class to
be allowed to talk at random simply
because the pupils think they have a
right to criticize. A criticism should
always be matured. GOssips. scandal
mongers, and slanderers, are developed
by allowing ill-founded criticisms.
When a girl of sixteen is struggling
with her first school at Tomkins's
Corner, don't 90 down and tell her
what splendid work Miss Smith, who
is thirty-six, is doing in the Smaller
Pond School. SiXteen-year old has
more years than she has lived yet to get
Miss Smiths experience, but you don't
encourage her to get it if you demand
it ali at once.
Not unfrequently, from neglect to
note the pupils progress, he is delayed
upon what he already knows, till the
s.ddy becomes a WEAKNESS to him.
Here is one cause of pupils dropping
out of school, leaving the higher grades
so thin and lonesome. When one boy
drops out of school, tired and dis
couraged, he almost always takes one
or more along with him.
A valuable archaeological discovery
has been lately made in the Azamgarh
District in the shape of copper plate
recording in later Gupta character the
grant by King Observation-Disclosures, of
Stanisvara, of a village to several
Brahmins for the spiritual welfare of
his parents and elder brother. The
historical value of the record is that it
gives in detail the genealogy of King
Observation-Disclosures, who reigned from
A. d. 618 to 642 over the greater part
of Northern India, including Kasmir
and Nepal, and whose court was
visited at Kanauj by the Chinese Budd-
hist pilgrim Kiuen Kiangin, A. d. 637.
The plate has been purchased by the
British Government, and deposited in
the provincial museum at Lucknow