Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1892-03-11
Educational Department
CONDUCTED mr.
PROF. B. ~
Principal XIX Point Schools.

PROF. II. FINK,
Principal XIX Point Schools.
Remember the teachers meeting
1t Beresford tomorrow.
The teachers meeting was not q
success. Cause, bad weather.
We read Of Prof. L. e. Follansbee
at Plankinton.
The present school term will close,
March %, and the spring term ends
June 10.
The next meeting of the Sioux
Valley Association will he held at
LeMars in June.
One Of the important questions
for the teacher to consider is,-What
knowledge is Of educational value?
Prof. E. E. Collins speaks very
we'll Of the lecture given by Prof. L.
e. Follansbee at Wrmillion,
The N. e. A. meeting Of '93 will
Of course be held near Chicago as
tile teachers will all want to go to
that city.
TIl1ne is s,great lack Of uniform.
~ high school courses. The
city Superintendent and principals
Of our state should meet and unite
on some common course.
Provision was made at the meet.
ing Of school superintendent held
recently at Brooklyn for a celebra.
ton OF the discovery Of America in
oil the schools Of the nation on the
18th day Of next October.
The plan Of marking pupils study
habits is being tried. Parents will
find the grade on the next reports.
The plan will be explained a little
more fully when the cards are sent
out at the close of the present term.
Some special exercises will he
given in each room on Arbor Day,
and probably a few trees will be
planted on the school grounds to re-
place those destroyed in removing
the school building.
1t seems that some Of our eIuca-
tors do not take kindly to the notion
OF having an educational exhibit
made at Chicago in 1893 by means
Of money collected by subscription
when other exhibitions will proba-
bly, lie made through taxation if at
all. Let us have the exhibit by
taxation if we can, by collection il
necessary, but let US have it.
Don't be discouraged if you are
not teaching all the isms and new
notions advocated. If you are
teaching the few necessary branches
according to the best methods you
may be moderately we'll satisfied
and slow to adopt some things less
essential. Some schools are spoiled
by tryingto teach nearly everything,
The common branches are most i'm
portant and always will be.
Some citizens we're interested e,
nough togoto the place appointed fol
the county association meeting as the
day was, and others expressed them
selves as disappointed ss they had
intended to go. This interest is in.
c%ouraging to the teachers, and We
hope to hold a meeting during The
spring under more favorable circum,
stances.
A new directory of the schools o.
South Dakota and North Dakota
has been published by e. O. Vailt
at Chicago. The directory occupies
seven pages and is followed by forty
pages Of advertising matter. The
price is one dollar. The plan O
charging for a book practically filled
with advertisements is quite new
When one looks at the book he car
not help wondering whether his sen.
SEES are deceiving him or whether
any man has the audacity to ut
tempt to sell such a pamphlet for til,
price printed on the title page.
Teachers, as a class, learn TO b.
Just. The whole work tends Il
make one SO. But justice demands
that certain punishments shall bein
ficted and hat the pupil who works
faithfully shall he passed alonf
more rapidly than the one who Loe'
not labor SO diligently. The pupi
sometimes mistakes justice for in
Justice. Parents, he slow to chargs
the teacher with partially. Re
member that she has many to dea'
with, and will usually try to avoid
trouble by treating all alike. That
lie teacher is only human must be
admitted therefore che is likely
to err. But If any injustice haf