Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-27

state Supr. A. ,. Draper, New 0rk:
If there is any one thing that the school
work of this country needs, it is that
no person shall be permitted to teach
who has not received some practical
training.
Mary E. Burt, Cook County Normal
School: The theory that textbook
literature is all-sufficient in the educa-
ton of children is more mischievous
than that textbooks should be entirely
dispensed with.
James MacAlister. Philadelphia. Pa. {:
No thinking mind. no intelligent in
structor, can withstand the witness
which the kindergarten bears against
Journalism and tradition, and in favor
of freedom and progress in education.
The teachers tone of voice and in
Election in the ordinary work of the
schoolroom has more influence upon
the Evolutionary style of the pupils than
the direct teaching of reading. The
schoolroom tone forms the habit rather
than the reading lesson tone.
Ohio teacher: What effect does
teaching have on you? Does it make
you selfish? Does it make you domi-
neering and dictatorial? Are you sorry
when school opens and glad when it
closes? If you feel so you had better
stop. You have likely missed your
calling.
Prof. N. S. Shaler, Harvard Univer-
sity: After each vacation the child
returns to his work with a mind dis
used to the tasks of the schoolroom.
Indulgence in the half-intellectual
existence of vacation destroys the habits
of study which it has cost so much
pains to inculcate.
Joshua II. Davis, Somerville, Mass:
Childen never conceal their joys, but
are often reticent concerning matters
that mar their happiness, and are in
clined to endure in silence much that
overshadows their lives. Hence the
liability to overestimate the pleasures
of childhood. and to forget that sor-
rows also are incident to that period.
Supt. J. NJ Berkey, Somerset County,
Pa: Let US retain the veterans in the
teaching service so long as they stand
in the front rank of progress and keep
pace with the spirit and needs of our
schools; but if they are not successful,
not willing to advance in the profession
and to increase their efficiency from
year to year, then let them step down
and out.
Boston Herald: School gardens
I. e., gardens for practical instruction
in rearing trees, vegetables, and fruits.
are being added to nearly all the public
and private schools of Austria. There
are now already 7,769 such in exist
ence in the Austrian monarchy alone,
Hungary not included. They also COM
prise botanical museums and appliances
for Bookkeeping.
Hon. Robert c. Winthrop, Boston:
Never before has there been witnessed
so prevailing an interest throughout
our whole land, liz every variety of
education, Uncommon, industrial, and
collegiate, during the last few
years. But history, discussion, and
elaborate addresses have yet accom-
plished the needful results. A dense
cloud of illiteracy overshadows large
parts of our land. We hardly dare to
anticipate the extent of illiteracy which
the census of the next year may reveal.
Supt. A. c. Goodwin, Owensboro,
KY: Looking into the desk of some of
the teachers, the most conspicuous
thing is disorder, and extending the
observation to the pupils desks, rags,
papers, apple cores, and confused piles
of books, will frequently be seen. In
other rooms we see no ink-Stained
desks, no old dirty rags, no apple
cores, no scattered pieces of paper, no
confused heaps of books ready to tum-
BILE out at the slightest jostle. Here
we find work neatly and expeditiously
done, without hesitation and without
erasure.
Supt. J. B. Monlux, Hastings, Neb.:
Not until our graded and high schools
are governed by the finest ability that
our normal schools and colleges can
furnish, and our country schools are
controlled by those who have enjoyed
special training, not less than may be
afforded by our high schools; not until
our common school, the connecting
link between the home and the state,
receives the attention demanded by it's
Importance as the foundation of our
educational system. and until that in
terest is manifested in providing teach
ers who appreciate the importance of
their work, will the state realize the
full fruition of her labor, in nobility of
character and general intelligence OF
her children.