The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-11-26
A FEW SENSIBLE REMARKS.
BY =. j Richnrdson
Regarding Young
America,
Teachers, Scholars and
schools.
Poverty Flat,
Nov. 21, 1871.

Poverty Fiat,
Nov. 21, I8Y.
There is class of children whose
presence among other children or |
classes demoralizes the school and
wears out the patience and strength |
of teachers beyond all reasonable de-
gree of endurance. Many of this |
class are marked by vicious spirit
a reckless licence and a gross disre-
spect for just rights and requirments
amounting to unbearable insolence.
The time of children and teachers
should not be devoted to these, nor
should their malicious and unman
ageable examples be tolerable, for it
is our. duty to shield the other child
rem from such evil influences. We
do not ask that these be expelled
from our schools and sent upon the
streets, but we urge that some pro-
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restrain and regulate their conduct,
by placing them in some special or
ungraded school under a teacher pc
culiarly fitted for such service. The
only object in the visible discipline
OF school is to enable the scholars
to study and think to the best advan-
tage. Every useless motion or for
mula should be avoided and no pupil
should be left for an instant unocu-
piel. Obedience should be prompt
and permanent but the time of mo-
) tionless quiet in the school room and
of requiring pupils to sit erect with
? their hands folded on the desk, have
1 happily passed. The teacher must
himself be the embodiment of what
, he would have his pupils become
| His motives of action Will inspire
e lofty motives in the young souls en-
t trusted to his care, or, on the othe
n hlnd the low plans of the teacher
n intellectual and moral life will be Ger
. tain preclude to the mental deartl
4 and moral degradation of those un
: der his instructions of pupils in th
e in the realm of nature as well as t
5 lead them to appreciate and enjoy th
good In literature. A teaches shoul
be paid according to the amount h
1t knows. In new country like tll
Y the demands upon the people tha
It must be met by the way of taxatio
:, are very numerous and burdensom'
|. In some counties the rate of levy fC
lie school purposes alone is 20 mills,
is tax that would not be levied or born
ID in many of the older and MOI
I'd wealthy states. Many Of the peopl
d, have come here to make homes, al
at have brought little capital with the
ne besides their courage and energy, al
Nv the burden of taxation are vel
orievous. A small income no
from the school lands would ther
- fore be more helpful to them tn
= four times the amount ten yea
hence. The greater number who
!. not avail themselves of the oppo
ne tunity offered by the schools are t
be- the children of poor and ignora
Of parents who grow up in lgnoran
- and generation after generation "
Is, do the same unless the law fore
az them into school until one generate
10 is educated then the great difiicu
: will be overcome. If parents are
- miss in their duties to their childl
-. and not aware of the great respon
-; bility resting upon them they shol
- be made sensible and be compelled
discharge o parent duty. The w
of teaching suffers more than
ia other professions from indiiiere
'rs, and incompetency, men and won
girl seek an entrance to the ranks of e
the cational workers. not because OF
wife ural or acquired fitness, but beca
lort it is the best thing they can do
eek, that particular time intending as
4
lul- majority do to enter other fields
! it, labor soon as opportunity offers It's
for Full twenty per cent. of the en-
says enrolment of teachers i'll this cot
leave the work each year IL
49,, frequently happens that when
! terms are taught in the same y
the two terms are taught by dife
az teachers. Very frequently we
the statement that it is robbery