Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-26
EDUCATIONAL,
c. D. BELDEN, EDITOR.

| teachers i've loo uuCn IN Jnelr text
books, and not enough in this big busy
world around them. The world is
school and a grand one. Teachers fl
how much better for that duty is he OF
she who knows something that is going
on outside the confines of the schoo
district Newspapers are the educators
of teachers, as they are of every other
class. Reading newspapers will prevent
that dogmatical assumption of superior
knowledge which overtakes every teacher
in middle age. Constant association
with inferior and submissive minds
brings on this state of affairs. and makes
the teacher unpleasantlY assuming in the
presence of cold business men. Read
papers; they will cause your salary to be
raised quicker than all the resolutions
you can pass in your natural lives. The
average teacher is to-day receiving ever
dollar his or her abilities warrant, and
not cent more will be paid until the
standard iustlfies the expenditure. The
moral to all this is, subscribe for and
read a good newspaper
Teachers of geography will take note
that in pronouncing Helena, Montana,
the accent shonld be on the first syllable,
but in pronouncing Helena, Arkansas,
the accent shonld be on the second
syllable, long e; also make note of the
fact that the Willamette River, Oregon,
has its accent on the second SYLLABLE.
lam; also that the name of Mt. Rainer
near Puget Sound has been changed to
Tacoma; also that the pronunciation of
Arkansas as it is spelled is highly i'm
proper; it is Ar. kansaw, accent on the
first syllable, but Kansas is pronounced
as 1t is spelled, not Kansaw after the
manner of its neighboring state. 1t is
interesting to note that the spelling Of
the capital of Iowa was made ''Demoine, -
by act of the legislature few years ago,
but it diden't stick. so Des Moines is the
right spelling, and IS likely to be for
some time to come. It is little difficult
Orleans The unsophistisated make e
long in the second syllable, and get
laughed at for their mistake. They
should say "Or-Lens" with the accent
on the first syllable, short e in the second.
This isn't exactly how a native accents
it, but it is as near as we can tell on
paper.-Selected.
The difficulty with some old teachers
graduated thirty wears ago perhaps, and
were up to the times then, but they
stopped growing then and there. All
oblivious to the progress the world has
made, they have logged on as they COM
menced until to-day; and now the world
says Of them, Excellent old woman,
but antiquated." He is a fine gentleman
of the old school, TERRIBLY old fash
ioned" Go into the libraries of such
teachers and you will find nothing new
A few books Of azoic age appear like
rocks in an old stratum, but no alluvial
formation-no "Paynes Lectures"
no *Grube's Method" no Mind
Studies or Psychologists, no School
Journal or Teachers Institute. 1t
is waste with nothing growing ex-
cept a little sage bush literature, bitter
and innutritious. No wonder such
teachers get lett. high and dry on the
sands of time! They ought to be.-1n
stitute.
SCHOOL PUN1sHMENT.-What do you
consider proper kind Of school punish
ment?
Punishment must be varied according
to the temperament of the child; frown
will act on one; separation from com
| panlOns, on another, neglect and cold
ness on another; and whipping on thu
fourth. In general, for younger pupils
corporal punishment is the most effectual
for older pupils, isolation, loss Of
privileges, or appeals to the sense O
honor. Never make threats of punish
mcnt in advance of offence; it will only
make pupils try you by dlsobeying, o
suggest to them the dong of something
they would never have thought of,
would not make 1t practice to depriv'
pupils of their recesses, as thew need then
in which to exercise freely and obtail
fresh air. Meyer inflict personal in
dignities, such as pulling the hair, ant
pulling the ears for they excite the bit
terest feelings and they are seldom for
given. In extreme cases punishment
may be inflicted openly and before tn
school, but in general it IS better to IN
f1ict it in private not in anger, but il
GOODNESS. Before Furnishing be abso
lutely sure of the guilt of the offender
and then inflct punishment so thoroughly
that it will be remembered.
Balm says: when corporal punish
ment is kept up, it should be at the ia
end of the list OF penalties, its slightes
application should be accounted tn
worst disgrace" -School Journal.