The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1889-01-09

plan 10 Raw 4 lew old teeth around Wnen
on the subject of teeth in physiology a
fresh bone when on the bones. etc. chsidren
learn to count readily By the nse Of sticks
1t costs but little to keepthe school supplied
With pencils and aids the teacher very ma
teriaiiy. A little praise is better than much
s~coldingr
c. +. L.isengood-"Misiake In Teaching. >
"a good school and a good teacher are a
credit to the community. and it IS a credit 70
q pupil 10 attend a good school, Let Us look
on the bright side of things rather than on
the dark side. The first mistake Is that schol-
ars are Dot properly graded. In many
schools the parents grade the schools instead
OF The teacher. They buy the books and tell
the child 10 study them. They buy the
large arithmetic, for instance. when they
should buy the primary, etc, etc. Thus
children gain only a few smattsring ideas
when they should haye clear knowledge In
spelling in our schools they take 3 speller
like Patterson's or Baekwaiter's and they
can spell every word, but in review papers,
they miss the most simple words. In read
ing. they have a fifth reader when they
should have 3 third reader. In arithmetic,
we make it a hobby. I've had . number Of
hobby boys in my classes. but I generally
found them to NOW aotsiag really Of aritli
netie. In many schools nothing is done in
grammar except the committing Of a Few
definitions, and in some Of the schools a lit
tie diagraming and that is all. In history
they are not taught. Eve seen a bright class
as far as the French and Indian war, and
cannot tell who discovered America, or who
discovered the Pacific Ocean.
Children learn to Wholesome Of them
but they haven't anything to write about /;
can't write compositions can't write a let
Ter can't write anything.
Queries is corporal punishment justifa-
BILE
r. R. ssnner To-day in Pennsylvania.
yes but I think the time is coming when
no such thing will exist.
For what time al a teacher suspend a pu-
pill?
G. W. Baker Until a meeting OF the
board can be had.
Forty young ladies desire to know if Prof
Nef is married Referred to Prof Houck
Yes.
To r. R. Sanner: What IS the highest
poiut in Somerset County:
Guess don't know think about Mt Saw
age have been ont Of the comfy several
years, and may be wrong.
REGULAR SESSION.
Devotional exercises, by Rev. Young, Of
Meyersdale.
The County Superintendent gave notice
that the directors meeting would convene in
the basement of the Lutheran church at 10
a. m.
Mr.. Eiriek having gone home, the County
Superintendent appointed in bis stead II. NJ.
Yost as a member Of the committee on Per
manent Certificates, The committee then
standing W. II. spangier, P. {. Miller, and
H " Yost.
The County Superintendent read the fol
lowing telegram
EnESsBURs. Pa, January 2. 1889.
The Somerset Teachers Institute. Greeting
The Cambria County teachers. 22i strong
in Institute assembled. send YOU greetings
for the New Year
J. W. LEEcH, Superintendent.
By vote the same was responded to by the
Teachers Institute of Somerset County.
MISREPRESENTATION in music by Prof Case.
DR.. Theo. 3. Moss. Of the State Normal
School. at California, Pa
I believe in making resolutions; men
can't we.i improve morally without making
resolutions the teacher who has no desire
70 make improvement | regard as a poor
teacher DIR, Arnold, of Rugby School. Eng
land, made fresh preparation for every les
son he taught he said he wanted his pu-
pills 10 drink from a RAINING stream, rather
than from a standing pool let us admit
that there IS something TO be learned I re-
spect any idea. no matter whence ii comes ;
I learned a valuable thing from a coloret
waiter in a Pittsburgh hotel Josh Bill .ngs.
a very shrewd man, said If a mar asks
you for advice, ask him what kind Of advice
he wants, and give it to him. One resolu-
ton Is As a teacher, hereafter | win help
those who most need my help. In the schools
Of Somerset county. and other counties there
are a vast number Of pupils that are duh
the dull, hopeless pupils, are the ones to
help we are responsible for this state olaf
fairs very largely directors DO all they can
TO make school houses unattraetive, aud we
teachers add our share aud DO all we can to
make he schools unattractiye. A little girl
comes 10 school, and we say, commit the al
pliabet next year we say, commit the bali
Of the multiplication table next year We
say. commit the other halfof the m~rl,iplica-
ton table, and 50 It goes on. Isee pupils
talking about campaigns that don't know a
campaign from q cartridge talking about
charters that don't know a charter from a
piece Of charcoal.
We have been kicked into the greatest re-
forms by lawyer. doctors, mechanics etc
against our own protest / viii no longer
waste the time Of pupils On the useless, diiH-
cult parts of ariihma;ic VIC teach allegation
and fali to teach addition We teach duodce-
imaIs. ard don't teach decinals We teach
cube root and don't get at the root O rcom-
mon fractions the mechanic. the farmer,
the business man. will not trus; the bright
est boy with a calculation involving a hun
dred dollars.
InternisSicn.
Music conducted bp Prof Case Ny
Mountain Home.
Prof Berkey announces that 80 Of he
153 teachers are present, only four absent Of
the entire number.
Instruction, By Prot. Baer I don't like
this idea 50 ofcn used, Of Government the
term Management Is better four Of the
teachers diiicul,i s u Of five are the iesul;
ofhis own niismanaeemeuf teachers fail
to take Things By the smooth handle, they
always sroket tbs cat the wrong way ninety
nine times out Of a hundred there Is a
smoother road than men take "a WORK in
the school rom should be such as to make
good men, good citizens the problem o.
training children here is very different from
The problem o~ftraining children in Europe
there they occupy one class for a lifetime
under q sovereigu; here they are soyereigns
recognize proper Authority, and teach youl
pupils 20 recognize the same yoHr suibor;.
" viii be stronger ifyou can have a maiori-
u ofthe pupils with you wrong books ar
generally bought through the hnlt Of tbs
pareuts perhaps the mother has uFg~l her
laughter into IT on accoaatof her siae plsc,
the pupils IN proper, clean aud elevated snr
roandiBgs some Persons can naturally man.