River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-01-10

the Editor at Esdaile Wis
In reopening this column we realize
that we are undertaking no easy task,
and that without the aid of our co-work-
ers we can accomplish but little. We
earnestly solicit contributions from every
live teacher so as to make the column in
teresting and instructive. The able
manner in which the column has been
conducted reflects credit ON its former
editor. We do not expect to be able to
run it as successfully as it has been, but
will do the best we can with the help of
others. With three educational journals
Pierce county ought not to be behind
the times.
Miss Anne horning of Trenton IS
meeting with success as a teacher in Dist.
No. 9, Hartland
c. j. Brewer and w. c. Owen are each
running lively educational column full
of instructive matter.
We are in receipt of two copies Of the
December number of the Rock Elm In
stitute, published at Rock Elm, Wis. 1t
is a carefully edited monthly and no live
| teacher ought to be without it.
1t is one of the privileges of every
teacher to prove how far we have ID
vanced beyond Shakespeare day IN
school matters by showing how false to
| life are his lines-"And then the school
boy, with his satchel and shining morn
ing face, creeping like a snail unwillingly
to school"
Try to work yourself and your school
up to a white heat of interest and enthus-
iasm. If you can bring yourself to feel
that you would like to put in about ten
hours a day with your school for the re-
mainder of your life, then you are ac-
eomplishing something; but beware un-
der such circumstances of doing too much
of your pupils work for them. Our teach
ers lack life, vigor, enthusia SIN. AS is
the teacher, so is the school. Rock Elm
Institute.
A LANGUAGE LEssoN.-Set the pupils to
writing a description of one of the pic
lures in reading book or geography.
Let two or three different pictures be as
signed in the class, and when one reads
a D description let the pupils in the other
sections find out to which picture 1t re-
lates. Have another from the same sec
ton read and let them supply what has
! been omitted. For the next reader let
the others find out what mistakes he has
made, if any. Then allow the pupils to
decide which of the descriptions is the
best. By this device great interest may
be awakened and eager efforts to be ac-
curate and complete in the descriptions
will be made Wisconsin Journal Of Edtl-
cation.
The live teacher who provides hiu or
herself with the proper tools for teaching,
commands $40 to $50 more per month
than those who DO not.
This is the Language of Prof. S. S. Parr,
of the De Paw, Indiana, Normal, and is
true because so much more work can be
done, and so much better work can be
done with these proper tools for teach
! ing.
An eight-inch globe, set of maps,
good black board, and reading charts are
absolutely ESSENTIAL for the success of any
school or any teacher. The pupils need
the help more than any one else.
Teachers should press this requirement
of the school room upon their directors,
and also the equally pressing need of
reference books.
To educate an American citizen we
must give him the power, the ability, TO
draw from he vast store of knowledge that
is garnered in our dictionaries and cyclic
pedias. To use these proftably he must
be taught their use and value IN the
school room.-Co, tnty School Council.