Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-05
What They Saw.

Philip Darnley, LIE Roy, O.: 1t pays
to have the schoolroom stove polished
as well as the home stove.
Lillian III. Picken, Eureka, Kan. {:
The ill-spelling demon is of the kind
that goeth not out but by sorrow in
hard work, for which there is no SUBJ
stitute.
Supt. Andrew Mcmillan, Utica, N.
Y: We carefully guard against and
aim to eXpel every symptom of moral
contagion with the same vigilance
practiced when infectious diseases
creep unaware into the school.
Margaret w. Sutherland, Ohio: 1t
makes me impatient when | think how
much time is spent in the grammar
grades of some of our city schools in
parsing and analysis, and yet know
that pupils often leave these schools
without any practical knowledge of
letter-writing.
j. I. Pettee, Meriden: 1t is to be
deprecated that so few boys graduate
from the high school. If they would
buckle down to their studies they
would find better places open for them
at the end than though they left in the
midst of the course, and they would be
much better prepared to fill them.
William FL. Seaman, Howard Univer-
sity: There are in the English system
of ''weights and measures" about
fifty factors to be memOrized, and
there is but one in the metric system,
and that the same as our system of
enumeration. Necessarily fifty times
as much time is required to learn
English measures as metric.
State Supt. S. NJ. Finger. North
Carolina: Education is development
of brain power,-a development of all
the faculties of the mind along with
physical power and a knowledge of
facts. Our young people must be
taught to think, and observe for them
selves, and any process that secures
this result will educate them.
Principal Ernest G. Willard, West
erly, r. l.: The live teacher of to-day
studies even more than any of her
scholars. Very little is heard of in
adequate knowledge on the part OF
teachers. Probably ninety per cent.
of the just complaints against teach
ers in general are based upon errors of
Judgment and occasional loss of tenn
per.
Supt Edward II, Long. st. Louis: ]
entertain no doubt that in the teaching
of physiology a fairly good book is to
be preferred to any pictorial device
which can only be used in the school
room and demands eXpositional power
of a very high order, and knowledge
of the subject which few teachers now
possess to make it instructive.
j. G. Fitch: He who takes teaching
as dose is likely to find it nauseous.
Christian Union: One trouble with
a good deal of the teaching of boys is
that it fixes their minds on the reward
rather than the work.
e. Z. White, LID: There ought to
be no chasm between real teaching
and book study. in school training. but
these two means of education should
be harmOniOuslv and effectively united.
Mary E. Burt. Chicago: There is nc
use in trying to force maturity; teach.
ers who trouble children bevond all
reason. and worry over their mistakes,
are fumbling at the roots of young
plants that will grow if they are lei
alone long enough.
Supt. j. G. Edgerly, Fitchburg,
Mass: Unless ungraded schools are
maintained, number of children will
be forced into private schools. 1t must
be regarded merely as an ungraded
school established for the benefit, moi
the disgrace, of any one.
Supt. George Rowland, Chicago
The simple working with tools does
not educate, though if well done il
does give manual dexterlty. The great
! inventions of this or any other age
have not been made by the toiler with
| tools, but by the student of principles
| Supt. Francis Cogswell, Cambridge
Mass: Evening schools have become
a part of the public school system
The success of these schools depend:
up the efficiency of the teachers, the
wise classifcations of the pupils, the
suitability of the accommodations, anC
the enforcement of strict rules in re
| gard to attendance.