The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-11-09

the child's education, is never to pass
Judgment until both'sides have been
heard. There should be the freest
communication and fullest sympathy
between parents and teachers and
superintendent, since the aim of all
is to do the child the most good.
Parents. make the teacher strong
in the good opinion of your child, de-
velop confidence, cooperation and
high aims in the school room.
Teachers. make the parents SUI
preme in the affection, thought and
obedience of your pupils. Lead the
children to recognize at whata cost of
pain, trouble, self-denial and expense
their appearing is looked after. Let
the child's good be the only question
and reach that at any cost. Put upon
the child any denial or task that will
train him to be noble in word, thought
and action. To this end let there be
more notes visits and consultations.
At the first lapse of interest, atten-
tion: carelessneSs in lessons or con-
duct; at the first Indifference or shirk-
ing or disObedience let parent and
teacher come to the rescue. The
teacher has the pupil less than five
hours per day, so the best results in
his education can not come until there
is proper zeal displayed at home in
regard to the interest, work and home
study OF the pupil.
HOME STUDY.
1t is not our purpose to have chill
dren in the lower grades do much
study at home. And yet the chil1's
doing some work at home these long
evenings gives the parent the best
opportunity to know what the child
is doing in school and to see to his
development. Froebet's motto, "Let
us live for our Children" inculcated
in our hearts, might make parents
and teachers gladly give more time
anu dOUOhUlOIl w UlIS llCCuo dIu OCUUCl-
ment of the children. In the higher
grades of school an increasing amount
of work is expected to be done at
home and if parents do not find chill
dren with their books at home and at
work five evenings in week they
may know such children are not doing
all they are capable of or ought to do.
Two hours and quarter for study in
school outside of class recitation is
surely far too small time for any pupil
in High school or Grammar grades to
learn his lessons. No pupil above the
fourth grade can do at school all the
study he should be able to bear. At
home he should learn to delve into
subjects and utilize his time for his
future good. The work of our young
people now is to get an education and
they should devote themselves as as
siduously to it as the business man to
his duties. One can hardly believe
that men in business, teachers or
pupils in school, can do even fair work
when their minds are absorbed with
social pleasures. If parents could
view the subject of parties and enter
tainments from the standpoint of
the school and the child's future good
there would be fewer evenings away
from home and these only on Friday
evening. 1t is so easy for many
things, deleterious to the future good
of our sons and daughters, to creep in
and make their school work poor or
cause them to be absent or tardy and
SO become Indifferent or careless in
their work.
The schools are set to do more than
teach the branches of Arithmetic.
Geography and Grammar. The ele-
ments that make up character come
from doing ones best regularly, con-