Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
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There may be good order without
good teaching, but not good teaching
without good order.
Francis Adams. England: Our public
elementary schools of England have
always been regarded as charitable.
S1pt. A. P. Marble, Phi. D., Worces-
5er, Mass: | think no system of schools
ought to be without the study of music.
1t is suspicious for a child to recite
in the language of the book. 1t is
easier for some children to learn words
than ideas.
The time was when the authorities
thought that any one could teach COM
position writing; now they question
whether any n car.
DR.. Thomas Arnold: 1t is a most
touching thing to me to receive a new
pupil, when | think of the great in
tiuenees there may be, for good or for
evil.
The latest reform, and it is a good
one, is the doing away with the calling
of the roll. 1t takes a teacher but q
half minute to make a note of those alb
sent.
State Supt. H. a. Russell, Florida:
Give me my state full of singing
schools, and I will have a state full of
singing homes, and they are happy,
pure homes.
Rev. NJ. j. Savage, Boston: Excite
ment, enthusiasm, zeaI,-these are only
force, neither good nor bad, any more
than steam is good or bad, or wind is
good or bad.
The atlanta Constitution: The best
endowed university in the South, the
Vanderbilt, got its money from a
Northern man. The endowment fund
of Emory is $95, 900, of which SO, 900
came from a Northern man.
Supervisor Louisa Parsons Hopkins:
Corporal punishment is monstrouslv
unphilosophical. and has no relations
methods. 1t is out of joint with the
times.
State Supt. n. A. Luce, Maine:
Whenever the district system prevails,
frequent changes in teachers,-which
are always wasteful of time and effort
of both teachers and pupils-are the
rule; under the town system they are
the exception.
State Superintendent Rice, South
Carolina: | am heartily in favor of
music instruction, and | hope that we
shall see music taught in every school
and to every child in the state. To
say nothing of its good effects upon the
physical system, it civilizes and refines
every school and community where
proper training is given.
State Supt. Joseph Esterbrook, Mich
igan; After the foundations of true
manhood have been laid by the proper
disciplinary exercises of the public
schools, then and not till then let the
professional, technical, and industrial
schools open their doors and offer to
all who desire it, the instruction re-
quired for the special business of life.
Supt. E. n. Jones, Saratoga Springs,
n. I: Drawing affords a training for
the hand and for the eye which cannot
be obtained from anything else. On
the practical side, it lies at the very
basis of all training in the manual arts
and industries for both men and
women No person can lay claim to
skill in these pursuits who does not
know how to draw.
Philadelphia Record: School educa-
ton is the complement of home educa-
tion.-not its substitute. Should it
ever become the latter, our state will
be like that of China. The universal
dreary dead-level of a prescribed and
unalterable method will stife all indi-
viduality. 1t is to the change and
variety, the progress of the actual life,
that we must look to canse education
to progress.