Brookings register. (Brookings, S.D.) 1890-1894, 1890-12-12
School.
"Oh dear! What can the matter be,
Parents won't visit the school,


,, Parents won't visit the school,"
This homely couplet expresses the
I sentiment oil every wide awake con-
| scientious teacher-from the days
when he was called "the master" and
was expected to WELD birch or beech
rod, to the present. BY the way, q
Rip Vanwinkle SCHOOL, teacher visiting
our schools today would meet with no
, greater surprise than the practice OF
1.-The law OF love-" Fear as an incen-
tive to study has been almost wholly
supplanted and for the better, by
/ love.
1t was the privilege OF "ye visitor"
to spend day recently with the ped
agogues and pupils of the Brookings
schools. Two things impressed him
at his first entrance to the building.
These were order and cleanliness-two
things very closely related to each
other and without which no school
work can be g. success. And later an.
+ other fact came to his notice. 1t is
this; the CO operation of teachers for
the general good of the school. School,
work, like that of manufacturing de.
pends today very largely, upon the
principle OF a harmonious division OF
labor. A factory would be in a sad
plight if the la6orers in any depart
ment should fail to work toward the
general aim OF the completed product.
Suppose it is q pillow factory and the
hand;e-maKers conclude that instead
OF making plow-handies they will make
fork-handles; the completed plow will
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tional institution, having different
grades, cannot do it's work unless the
teacher in each department labors
cheerfully with reference to those
above and below Our schools illus.
trate this principle in most com.
mendable way. TO make any COM
parison OF the quality of the work
done in each room would be lmpossi-
BILE, but ii there is an inefficient teacher
in that beautiful building che visitor
did not make the discovery. Each
teacher insisted upon two things-ex.
act obedience and definite understand
Ing OF every principle under discussion.
1t IL surprising to see the advanced
and critical work the primary pupils
are doing under the Pollard system OF
primary instruction, and the indus
trial features taken up in the primary
room tor amusement, recraation and
eye training and carried through to
the High School, taking on.some new
inviting and useful form in each room.
Parents you owe it to yourselves,
as much as to your children and their
teachers, to 20 and do as this one
patron has done, tardily, but with so
much satisfaction to himself. You
will find everything in apple pie order
from the janitor's broom to the
Principals last dictum, but don't
take another's word for it, 60 see for
yourself. A VISITOR
A Blue Earth County Boy Gets There.
Mr.. John + Diamond. of Brookings,
s. D., son of }. Diamond, Esq, OF
Mankato, was appointed bank ex-
aminer for the district covering North
and South Dakota and a part of
Nebraska. John Is an old Mankato
boy who, seeing the folly of the ways
OF his illustrious father in clinging to
the defurcL democratic party, started
out in the life OF republican. He
has been An active worker in the
ranks of his party for number of
years, and now that the time tor re.
ward has arrived, bis many friends
in Blue Earth county send congratu-
iations. John is bright young man
and his we'll poised mind and business
training will enable him to perform
the duties OF his new and honorable
position entirely satisfactory and
with becoming credit. - Mankato
Daily Free Press, Nov. 6, 80.
The above has reference to Hon. J.
E. Diamond of this city who received
his appointment last Saturday. The
REGISTER is pleased to note this well
deserved acknowledgment of the gen.
tleman's services to the Republican
party and joins with his many friends
throughout South Dakota in extend
ing congratulations.
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