Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-07-10
WHAT EDUCATORS SAY.

We want scientific training, not
scientific telling.
Neglected school grounds are a pro-
'essional disgrace.
Flooding accuracy is preferable to
secondhand enthusiasm.
The teacher who thinks keenly is
liable to inspire thought.
Loyalty to general principles in
teaching is rare virtue.
Judge pupil less by what he knows
than by what he thinks.
Clearness of thought and expression
are always at premium.
if there Is place or time for scold.
ing 1t is not in the schoolroom.
Don't forget to use the newspaper Is
an occasional reading exercise.
The spirit of modern methods should
flush your work in every branch.
In elementary work in geography,
nothing can take the place OF nature.
Next to pure air, the prime necessity
in a schoolroom is a sunny philosophy.
We are as responsible for the physical
condition Of mankind as for its spirit
ual.
Our teachers must walk in the lig-
OF the past and in the hope of In
future.
Stimulate the observation of phe~s
mena, especially IN the high schoo'
classes.
A teacher must have his powers IN
der command if others are to have the
full benefit Of them.
The child that sees point quickly
when you suggest it, may be far from
doing his own thinking.
There should be every safeguard to
prevent fayoritism on the part of those
who certificate teachers.
Have the courage to be Independent
in any specific method, when YOU are
confident You are right.
The boy is hero worshiper Treat
him TO an abundance OF biography and
history OF stimulating nature.
Teaching facts is Only an incident of
teaching. The chief object is to teach
the children to be men and women.
To receive proper training and dis
cipline from the study OF the sciences,
the pupil must become an investigator.
The dull pupil with his faulty recita-
ton, effort for effort, is equally merit
orious with his more gifted classmate.
Adult life is one uuceasing eXamina-
ton; youth, the formative aud prepa-
ratiye period; death, the commencement
day.
Ease and grace of bearing are as inn
portant to the success in the life of
pupil as some things taught from
books.
The teacher cannot supplant nature.
lie can only aid her BY making the
conditions for healthy life as favorable
as possible.
The ordinary school committee ser.
vice in a rural town is too often limited
to prudential affairs, and it is poor
service at that.
There is a weakness in the pupil and
possibly in the teacher, when the for
mer talks about what he likes and does
not like in school work.
The principles Of thinking, which are
to common life what axioms are to ma.
thematics should be well taught and
thoroughly appreciated.
A half hours exercise in the open
air will renew, to remarkable degree,
the reteutiye power of the brain and
the capacity for study, when the brain
is weary with continuous work.
1t is not often that good results are
obtained from keeping pupils after
school. There are teachers who can
make il serviceable for discipline and
inspiration, but they are rare.
He who can express his thoughts
readily, correctly, and felicilously, and
who has thoughts worthy of expression,
occupies a much-to-be-lesired vantage
ground ia the warfare Of life.
The zeal and untiring labors of the
best teachers, not only in their school.
rooms and immediate neighborhood,
bit 10 al educational meetings, justly
deserve highest eommeudation.
Latin and Greek are not dead. They
are the trunk from which branches
have grown. The trouble with the
study OF the dead" languages is that il
deals only with the bark Of this trunk.
Give the pupils sympathy give theiI
helpers sympathy, and lend hand tc
every possible opportunity Of making
them the men and women GU whom
others, in their turn, may be able &c
depend hereafter.
The moral character of an apphcan'
Oeacher) IS generally known or iH.
ferred. but maturity Of body and mind,
scholarship aud progressive training
are ndt duly considered by the commit.
tee OF rural town.
Manual training gives mental gym.
uastics of a kind uuattaiuable from
books it gives a dull boy his missing
stepping it gives bright boy
the chance 20 question and establish ms
authority; it teaches hand skill.
Our schools cannot protect the for
eSts, but they can raise upa generation
which will not leave our hiilsides and
mountains treeless; generation which
will frown upon and rebuke the wan