Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-01-23
ARaniniknanea.

was once teaching in a town N Col
orado where the the trustees were very
smart, especially one of them. He was
an ex>army officer, ard had been edu'
Gated in Boston. He claimed to have beer
taught to spell in the good old fashion
ed way; and that the sonorous ano
musical box, box-D-o-y, boy etc. etc
rang IN ones ears for years and years af'
terwards-to the exclusion of much else
I'm afraid. just think, you of later
day, what an advantage the anciente
had over you! You learn in quiet
silent way that box spells box and boy
spells boy. You learn it just as thor
oughly, and in much le-s time-but
you miss the music! See? Nothing can
compensate for that. =
L am sorry to have to acknowledge that
this gentleman. for all his early advan-
tages and present attainments, was In
clined to be vain, and never missed an
an opportunity of airing his knowledge.
va JUG OONcblOu llC W AOI
low the school examination work. and
wrote as industriously as any of the
class. The subject being trested was
simple equations.
Here was agoldeu chance, for though
the matter was not at all difficult, the
simple villagers would not know the
difference, and would concede that Col.
E-must be very learned. / was writing
the questions on the blackboard and i'll
making my equations had only TO re-
member what values l assigned to Y
and y in each first equation. This, |
suppose, he knew, but had TO work them
out To ascertain their value. After q
little time he raised his hand and voice
To cali my attention, and If course that
u the whole house,to the fact that mac
made a mIsstaiemenG IN the '3rd" 8.
think Lot" L answered, continuing nv
work down the board. After perhaps
minute said: FL think you have made
mistake with your sign" After g, Ie
more serious work on has part he admit
ted L. But he never forgave me, as
was made to feel later Oh.
And here let me say to beginners in
the great field of teaching: 1t is not
sufficient that you please the parents of
your pupil; aid that you Pease anC
proht the children themselves; your
chief business is to please. your trustees.
A term or two after this my class was
busy IN radlcals-doing very fine work
de came to me one day and said. Miss
II, thlnk you are giving your class too
much work. MANY Of them complain |
that radicals are SO hard, so hard!"
asked him what of radicals was hard; |
feeling cure that il be knew THAT he |
was talking about he would give an in
telllgent answer, by saying their reduc-
ton, addition, subtraction, multiplica>
ton or division.
He diu not venture, but answered |
L little reddening of the face: "All Of |
them" | laughed. Well l didn't teach |
any more after that term.
Mind don't. require the trustees to
know more than the teacher. though il
would be great gain over their present
condition, but simply not to assume tina
hey do, unless they dc.
L vas reading short time since that |
10 Is mistake to suppose fer an H.
slant that speech WIS < van Us 20 express
Dur thoughts by---that its purpose was
and is to conceal them. II this be true
he lesson applies TO many places and to
many people and in that "a the colonel
vas only practicing the deceit nd ego
ism Of this advanced knowledge. And
Sas luetitiable. haven't reached II
yet.
MARGARET Rowe CLIFFORD,
Mammoth. ArZona