River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-03-07

Miss Winn has closed her term in Dist.
No. 2, Oak Grove.
B. Thompson of Waverly is teaching
in Dist No. 3, Martell.
Miss Julia Young will teach in the
white" district, Salem.
Thomas Mealey closed his school in
Dist. No. l, Union, Feb. 81.
The Stockholm school has been closed
on account of scarlet fever.
Miss Mary Hawn WIN teach the spring
term of school in FL Paso village.
Fred. Persons will close his school in
the town of Rock Elm, March z.
Miss Eliza O'ConnelI has been engaged
to teach in Dist. No. 5, Maiden Rock
Miss Kaye of Maiden Rock has been
teaching in Red Wing for short time.
Miss Willie Willard has been engaged
to teach the school in Dist. No. 10, Rock
Elm.
F. J. Denham will close his school in
the Forest Home" district, Hartland,
March l5
Miss Stella Denham closed her term of
school at Warrentown, Maiden Rock,
March /.
w. r. Foley closed his school in the
upper Lost Creek district, No. 4, Ell Paso,
March l.
The teachers association at Trimbelle
Feb. % was very interesting and profta-
bic meeting.
Miss Ida Weldon will teach the spring
term at Cady. This will make her third
term there.
Miss Alice Spalding will close her term
of school in it Dist. No. l, Hartland,
March Is.
Mr.. Wright has completed his term of
school in Dist. No. 3, near Stockholm,
Pepin county.
Miss Brown recently closed her winter
term of school in the lower Lost Creek
district, Ell Paso. She has been re-hired
for the spring term.
Kind words produce their own image
in mems souls, and beautiful image it
is. They soothe and quiet and comfort
the hearer. They shame him out of his
sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have
not yet begun to use kind words in such
abundance as they ought to be used
Pascal.
This is an age of progressive ideas in
education; normal schools, county and
state institutes, teachers meetings and
educational journals, all combine to pre-
sent better methods and to lead teachers
to a higher standard of excellence in
school-room work. The progressive
teacher catches the thought of the times,
and enters with enthusiasm into the spirit
of improy ement that pervades educa-
tionsl circles, and applies the experience
Of the successful workers to his or her
own sphere of duty. The result is sue
cess
A conundrum to be answered: How
can teacher, with all these aids at hand,
plod on in the old, beaten, unnatural
steps of former times-"as they used to
do when l was at school"-seeing and
hearing so much that naturally would
inspire one to higher aims and the use Of
better methods? We give two answers
and ask for more.
/. Such teachers are satisfied with
themselves. They have ability, as I'M
doubtedly they have, such as it is; but
they prefer to use It in the rough rather
than employ the more polished methods
Of others who have more ability than
they. A teacher must not be self
sufficient but willing to learn from others,
and to apply the lessons, or soon he viii
be an old fogy.
2. Other such teachers do not desire
to improve. They lack ambition. They
| are content TO be drones in hive Of busy
bees. Either they don't expect to teach
long, or they don't care to exert them
selves to apply new principle, and So
poor childrenl stunted in mental growth,
dwarfed in the power of thought, because
the teacher has no desire or ambition 10
learn and practice the methods that
would more truly educate the growing
mind. Teachers must have burning
desire to make their own those treasures
| which are gathered from the store-house