Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-11
What, They Saw.

Better multiply our normal schools
and not build so many Bennington
battle monuments.-RatJa1ad (W)
Herald
A sharp distinction should be care
fully observed between physical, man.
ual, industrial, and technical educa-
tion.-President Gilman, John Hopkins
University.
When a man comes to think it sin
to send his children to the public school,
then, surely, it will be sin for him to
have hand in their administrations
EdaOira d. Medd, Boston.
Teachers are devoted to their work
and give as much time to it as seems
necessary, nearly as much as was
demanded ten years since, when
written examinations were more fire.
quent. Thomas Tash, Portland, Ne.
The protest of the All of the fore
most men and women in England
against the part played by competitive
examinations in English schools and
colleges is, probably, in its way, the
most remarkable document in educa-
tional history.-NeO York EUe,1ipg
Post.
have no patience with those who
think it beneath them to prepare in
their education to make good and in
dependent living. In fact, education
is not an end, it is a means, prepare
ton for such living; that is, the business
of life is to live.-W. n. Bdrraaeqer,
Nea00r6, n. j.
The friends of temperance must bear
in mind that more is needed than scien-
tific instruction; the conscience must be
enlightened and the will strengthened,
and for this purpose other forces than
legislative enactment must be brought
into action.-M. 4. Newell, Baltimore,
Md.
The duty of a school committee is
not merely to buy soap and brooms,-
however necessary these may be as
educa tGrs,-but actually to inspect the
discipline, teaching capacity, and
general fitness of the teach ars. and to
know the general character of the work
done by every employee. &. Safer,
Columbus, O.
If stranger should to-day visit a
dozen schools in Boston, or any large
city in the country, and report the five
teachers who seemed to possess the
greatest teaching capacity, he would
without doubt select those that pos
sessed large libraries on their favorite
subjects, that were never satisfied with
their present knowledge, but were ever
trying to increase their acquaintance
with these studies.-ChdrLeS Il. King,
Ro16~1y, Mass.
1t is hard to discern and to decipher
the mysterious writing on the mind
of the child.-W Preyer. Jena.
Without scientific method, one fact
does much to obliterate all others by
its presCnce.-W Z. Harris, III. d.,
Concord.
The mind as it - must be the founda-
ton of acknowledgements the mind as
we think it ought to be.-Borden P.
Bourne, Boston University.
Habit not only lays down the trunk
lines of association and thus gives
direction, but it furnishes momentum
of mind and willie. Stanley Hull,
Worcester.
The city has right to look to the
teacher for her best efforts, and it is
by far better to have a good rest and
few methods than many methods and
no rest. p Hendricks, Cedar Rapids.
la.
The spirit which one brings from the
public school to his special occupation
is of more value to either public or pri-
vate utility than any amount of skill
that can ever be acquired in the public
schools.-Joseph Estabroo%, Lansing,
Mich.