Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-02-21
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.
]. S. FORD, COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT.

Teachers institute at Enterprise
next Saturday and Co. Association the
Saturday following.
Id. Arnold will teach the spring
term in district No. %. Mr.. Arnold
has been very successful.
The semi-annual appOrtionment of
State school fund will be made the LIST
of March. Dickinson county will be
entitled to about $4275.
Each teacher should leave areport of
his school for his successor. Welch's
Classification Register should be pro-
cured and report left in that. Teach
ers will please speak to the school
boards in regard to the matter.
Three thousand copies of the Course
of Study for the Dickinson county high
school have been ordered, and just as
soon as printed, copies will be sent to
the teachers and district clerks of the
county. The school will begin next
September and indications at present
point to large attendance.
School boards will take notice that
the school fund commissioners have de-
cided to write no more five per cent
bonds. Bonds must bear six per cent.
We do not know why they have made
such ruling, but suppose it is because
they can readily place all the funds at
six per cent. The following circular is
issued by the State superintendent in
regard to the matter:
The school fund commissioners, for
the investment of the permanent funds
under their control, hereafter will not
write bonds bearing lower rate of ill
terest than SIX per cent. Section l,
Chapter 143, Session Laws 1888, makes
it the duty of the commissioners in
making such investments, to give the
preference to the bonds of the State of
Kansas. school-district bonds, and re-
funding bonds, when the same can be
procured most advantageOuSly to the
said funds; but they shall lot pay for
any State, schoOl-district, or refunding
bonds in any case greater sum than
the par value of the same, nor shall they
pau for any such bonds any greater sum
than the actual market price thereof at the
time Of purchasing the same" Therefor,
in compliance with the law as above
noted. the commissioners will not ic-
cept bonds bearing a lower rate Of iI.-
teresU than six per cent. except thus
already written and sent oat from tics
office on the blanks of fve-per-ceul
bonds, which will be considered with
out reference to the above rule.
The following excellent thoughts o.
the teachers duties are taken from tn"
conclusion of a paper written by Miss
Fannie Hunter and read before the 5.
Z. teachers institute:
l am not sure but that the moral
wants of our pupils are most important
of all. 1t is certainly better that men
and women should be good than that
they should be learned. Intellectual
efforts unless guided by, moral princl-
Piles are curse instead of a blessing to
the world. Our duty in this respect is
plain enough. An6 if we are deprived
of giving religious instruction in our
schools, we should teach it by christian
example. This is one of our duties,
teachers, which we should think about
And we also owe much to our fellow
workers, to our profession. Teaching
is profession. Its claims to be ranked
as such are just, and need no defense
from me. If it is a profession we owe
something toward it. Each of us
should consider it our duty to adorn 1t,
first by our scholarship aud second by
our skill i'm our work. We should know
how to apply our knowledge to attain
the best results for our pupils. 1t we
receive position, fellowship and honor
from our profession we should be VIII
ling to give something IN return.
Therefore the teacher should be man
or woman of integrity. The standing
of the profession depends upon the
standing of its members. And If the
teacher should be model man. that
he should he model for his pupils. he
should also be model man that he
may dignity his profession. We should
also elevate our work by continually
improving it. Teaching is making