St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-04-23
At School III Switzerland.

| a system Of education in practice
among tho Swiss is enlightened and far
reaching. Not only are the pupils nn-
| der strict and kindly dicipiite while
at school, but they are also Made to feel
| that the warning and protecting care of
| their tutors is over them, whenever they
| are outside the fathers house. AS soon
as the child is in the street, he has pass
ed from the circle OF bis home, and this
| moment begins ibe school authority.
Regulations, printed Gil slips and drop
ped in every house, contain, among a
score Ut others equally sensible, the fol-
lowing rule regulating The out door
manners: "Delay of any kind between
the scholars home and scboo! is not al
lowed. No wl:oopiug, yelling, throw
ing stones and SNOW baiis, teasing chill
dren, Or ridicullUg age and defOrmity
can be enduted. Grown persons shall
be met with ciylllty as they pass, thus
shall honor be reflected on the school"
Once in the class room, the pupil is
taught department, as well as his three
Rs he is told how to walk, to stand
and speak ; and a blot on his book and
a smudse on his face are regarded as
equally bad. "A book befouled is
wasted said a teacher to the author of
"The Swiss Republic" and our econ
omical habits will not suffer such loss.
Turn over any of our books in daily
use, and you will find none of them torn
or defaced by scribbling." The same
rule applies to the school building and
furniture; the desks look as il they re-
ceived daily washing and polishing;
not a spot OF ink is to be seen on their
surfaces, nor the slightest evidence of
the mischievOus boys knife, the cor
ridors and stair ways show neither spot
nor scratch the walls are free from fin
ger marks and no bits of paper litter
the floor. The children representing all
grades Of society, from patrician to
peasant, are neatly and comfortably
clad. None are dirty, ragged or shoe
less. 1t child comes to school with
his face begrimed, or bis clothes torn.n
says a teacher, he is washed and
mended and then sent home. The
mother is ashamed on finding that some
other person has had to wash her child,
and the child is so mortified that it new
er becomes necessary to repeat the ey-
pertinent, Youths Companion.
We find the above 80 full of practical
that We quote it entirely, |
Ii every teacher who reads the Educa- |
tor wonld read this clipping to his |
school it wonld, no doubt, prove a |
healthy stimulus TO good order and |
good government. Those sentences re- /
|ating to the care Of the school house |
need special notice. As people, we |
too frequently allow our thougLtless-
ness to lead us into destroying public
property. Our courthouses, postotfices,
school houses, churches, etc, are stand |
ng monuments of rebuke to our "free
md enlightened" Lead;pencil marks,
;halk marks, the marks OF knife blades.
PRINTS OF shoes and boots on places too
high and too sacred for an enlightened
mans shoes or boots to get, etc, are
ound on public buildings all over our
country. School teachers are largely to
'lame for these irregularities. Let us
each our boys and girls Il proper res
'ect for the property Of others and it
must follow that our schools will pros
er, and our nation will be grand step
ighcr 10 ljzatioD.-LOuisiaua Ed
Gator.
Boar in mind that us teacher Won
10 to strive to make your pupil fit to
AXE up any Of the duties and respon-
Utilities Of life aud learn how to bear
hem. This fitness comes not from
echnical training, nor from the rank in
bnt from character, pure,
rand, noble. Character forming should
Q placed before any other subject in
he school-room. Make your boys bet
7r boys, your girls better girls. You
re lifting them to DC men and women.
erbaps your Influence may be the one
nat shall most move their lives; see to
that you fail not TO do your duty to
le lmpressloDable ones committed to
our care.-CommoD School Education.