Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-04-10

LII NHdl SCuool subject are you mOS'
interested?
To be late but few minutes is better
than to be absent half day.
Have you succeeded in winning one
child to love one good book this year.
Watch the trend of public sentiment
in school, and help it in right cur
rents.
Honesty is as virtuous in school as
| in life. Impress this fact upon the
children.
Pay premium upon every genuine
thought, whether the answer is the
best or not.
Enthusiasm in school work is worth
much to pupil, but dependence upon
enthusiasm is a serious defect.
The increase in the number of students
and scholastic ardor at Yale is attract
ing attention in literary circles.
A mean act must be treated so as to
make the doer hate it, hate himself for
doing it. Great tact is needed.
Do not worship at the shrine of any
man who has the conceit that he must
furnish new theory for the doing OF
everything under the sun.-Jouraaal of
Education.
School visitation is required by law
of the state superintendent in Ala
bama, California, Delaware, Massachu-
sets, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada,
New York, Rhode Island, South Caro-
lima, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia,
and Wisconsin.
G. T. Meredith, Ventura, CAL: More
training school work should be given
| in the normal schools.
Joshua H. Davis, Somerville, Mass.
The primary condition of learner is
satisfaction in learning.
Edward Rowland Hill Education is
what the mind of the teacher can do
for the mind of the chill.
Rabbi Henry Berhowitz, Kansas City.
The public school is the grandest gift
the New World has given humanity.
Central School Journal: An irritable
demand in stentorian tones that good
order must prevail, will usually in
crease the disorder.
Prof J. P. Cook, Harvard University:
How very little is the share of new
truth which even the greatest genius
has added to the previous stock.
G. landlord Henderson, Philadel,
| phia: One can scarcely overestimate
| the Importance of establishing so per-
| vasive an institution as the school, up
on right basis.
Supt G. A. Daniels, Maiden, Mass:
Education without health is of compare
lively little use to its possessor. The
| health of our children should be our
| first consideration.
DR.. H. Hensoldt, Columbia College:
Nothing is more mischievous than a
hobby on the part of a teacher who is
charged with the responsibility of adj
ministerirg an education.
Prof. Flazer, Franklin Institute: The
law of growth requires first, the train
| ing of the senses, then the perfection
of speech, and later the practice in alb
straction and mental processes
Supt. OH. Daniels, Brookline, Mass.
Individual pupils, in the early years
| of their course, should be promoted
whenever they have the strength and
maturity for the advanced grades.
F. Trendley. Ohio: The love of
poetry, should be cultivated at an early
age. Much of Longfellow's, Whit
tiers, and some of Tennyson's poetry
is entirely within the range of pupils.
Edward Rowland Hill: All the ed
ucational machinery, = past present,
and to come,-can make nothing of
dull and dishonest teacher but stupe-
| flying poison to every child within his
reach.
Supt. G. l. Aldrich, Quincy, Mass:
In order that school committee may
be highly effective it must be somewhat
in advance of public or popular opin-
ion, and it must dare to assume re-
sponsibility.
Eben Tourjee, Boston, Mass: No
people in the world can so i'll afford to
dispense with vocal training as Ameri-
cans one-tifth of whose entire mortali-
ty is attributable to diseases of the
throat and lungs.
Some of the schools in Germany are
introducing baths, and each child is to
become thoroughly acquainted with
soap and water once in three weeks.
Other European countries are follow
ing her example.
Boston Herald: 1t is not so much the
college that makes the man, as it is the
drill and thoroughness by which, in
IN one position or the other, the inter-
est and strong qualities of young man
are matured and developed
Caroline P. Dalton, Salem, Mass. ::
Perhaps our influence is molding some
heart into accord with all things pure
and good, which later may break forth
in the immortal strains of a Whittier
or Longfellow. Who can tellp
Supt. VIM. Cornell: Full River,
Mass: Moral and intellectual culture
should go hand in hand,-the former
enriching the heart with all that is no.
BILE and pure; the latter, the mind, with
the richest treasures of knowledge.
wisdom, and truth
James A. Russell Lowell: As the
special distinction of man is speech. it
should seem that there can be no high
er achievement of civilized men than
the power of molding words into such
fair and noble forms as shall people
the human mind forever with images
that refine, console, and inspire.
D. G. Gilman, Iowa: I have been told
| by a professor of mechanics in one of
the foremost technical schools of the
country, that his worst pupils are those
who come from manual training
schools, where certain uses and process
had been taught, to the neglect OF
school culture, mental and physical.
Supt: George R. Dwelley, Water