The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-01-17
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.
CONDUCTED by w. j. NC KONE.

tONDlCTED B1 w. j. NC hONE.
SUPERINTENDENTS AND PRINCIPALS AS
SoCIATIoN.
To be held at Byron, February /, 1890,
j. w. Simmons, President, w. j. McKone,
Secretary.
PROGRAMME.
Influence of the teacher outside of school
room, f. B. Smith Laingsburg, +. Nj. Hop
kins, Durand, ID. G. Cooper, OwossO. What
is the best plan to pursue with pupils who
come but few months i'm the year, ID. j.
keyes, Vernon, +. w. French, Byron III. j.
MEuen, Perry. What shall we do with Oul
teachers as to professional or literary
work for themselves? j. w. Simmons,
OwossO, Jas. n. M'Bride, Owosso. Litera-
ture, Newspapers, Home Reading, School
Libraries, ii. III. Frost, Owosso, Hudson
Sheldon, Bancroft, w. j. M'KOne, Morrice.
NOTES FROM DIST. NO. 4, FRACTIONAL
ANTRIM, II. o. AUSTIN, TEACHER.
Enrolment SO, average attendance for
December 30.6. We think this good.
There is long established prejudice
against opening i'm the middle of the week.
We closed for vacation on Tuesday Dec. "a
and opened Thursday, JAM with all present
Not impossible to begin with a full school
even in the middle of the week.
In response to the Editors request to re-
port our method of dealing with tardiness,
we quote last weeks experience, expecting
to photograph the building and schoo! it was
accordingly announced that the photograph
er would be there some pleasant morning of
the week to do the work. 1t is unnecessary
to say that tardy and absent marks were for
that week few and far between.
The Michigan and u. S. maps, daily pro-
gramme and panoramic battle scene (Shioh)
all from our County Secretary, together with
other show cards, placques and pictures
play no inconsiderable part in making the
school room pleasant place. The maps fill
a place which has been too often vacant in
district schools. The map of Michigan
needs to he firmly pasted on rollers and
cloth on the back or it will not last long.
The back part of the room is not the place
for maps. If the front walls are occupied
by blackbOards, hang the maps from cord
passing over a knob higher up so they can
be raised when the blackboard is in use and
lowered for cl ass use.
COUNTY NOTES.
Secretary Mcbride was visiting schools in
the south part of the County last week with
headquarters at Morrice.
Mr.. VIM. Olney succeeds Mr.. Fred VIM
pie at Shaftsburg. Mr.. w. we understand
will attend the o. /. u.
When you read this probably the North
western Association will be sitting in solemn
conclave at Burton. The meeting is Satur-
day Jan. Is. Full report next week.
Byron adds more seating to accommodate
increased attendance. Good for Byron and
French.
Jay Dougherty still sways the sceptre in
Vernon township regardless of some diff
culties.
We are in receipt of the results of exam
nations in Dist. No. 1, Shawassee-town,
Milton st. Clair, teacher, but regret that
they are too long to publish. Among other
Things we notice a class of ten in history
and three in bookkeeping.
Misses Nellie Buyea and Lizzie Dyer be-
gan work at Byron with this term. Their
predecessors went the way of all school
ma'ams.
Bancroft. correspondent in the Perry Sun
says good word for Friend Sheldon for
eign pupils and all such things.
IL. r. Pattngil lectures for Perry High
school course Jan. II, Subject, prose and
Poetry of war;"
What do you think of TUE TIMES column
for the last three or four weeks? Let us
know and do your share.
The teacher in the rural school may not
do the same work done i'm the graded school,
but she can do work equally as good.
f. w. Pearce writes from Garland that he
has an enrolment of 3S, average attendance
35, and is enjoying his work.
OwossO High school enrolls 1870. We
found this in the Moderator.
The Chesaning Argus says that j. w.
Manning, who some time ago was taken to
the Pontiac asylum has so far recovered that
he was able to spend Christmas with his
family.
Ovid has added $75 worth of apparatus
and S25 worth of books and school equip
ments this year.
SOME THINGS IN SCHOOL.
Two of the most important things i'm a
school are the teacher and the pupils, and in
my opinion the success of the school de-
pends more largely upon the former than
upon the latter. IL cannot be denied that a
good teacher makes good school, while
just as surely poor teacher makes poor
school.
The responsibility resting upon the teacher
cannot he over estimated, nor the nobility
of her work comprehended. The training
of those childish minds for all the grand
possibilities of the future, is the most i'm
portant trust reposed i'm her. That she
faithfully perform her duty requires much
energy, frmness of purpose and patient
toll. Plans must be made and methods de-
vised whereby the best results in each par
ticular may be obtained. No one who does
not enjoy the work can successfully occupy
the position of teacher. BY enjoying the work
l mean, have a liking for it, preference
for that profession over every other.
Rightly considered, the school room is the
home of the teacher and her pupils during
the school session, and here are instilled
into the pupils minds, principles which will
remain with them through life. But even
the teacher who enjoys her work often
finds her position a trying one, and an al