The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1895-04-27
4 NEW VENTURE,

we nave 0tte1l SAID III THIS column
that the progressive teacher reads. 1t
is not enough that he read the parish
and daily papers, but he should read
educational journals, for in no other
way can he keep step with the re-
%markab!e progress being made in his
profession. One may have been a fine
teacher a quarter of IL century ago and
Yet be a very poor q now. The inn
provement in educational methods,
devices. and management has been
greater than II who is no posted on
the subject would imagine.
Show us a teacher who reads no ed
ucational books or papers, and we will
show you a teacher who to say the
least. is not doing his hest, and Lou
isiana has a right to see to it that they
who are intlusted with the holding
and forming of the characters and
lives of her future citizens, should not
only be expert workmen, but should
do the very best work Of which they
are capable. Unless a teacher keeps
himself up to date and unless he keeps
himself in touch with the teaching pro-
f%ession. we care not of how many col
leges he may be a graduate. he is a
back number aud should be laid on
the shelf, and ever there lie is useless
except as a souvenir Of auld lang syne.
And in saying this We do not except
Normal graduates . than any
others.
What would you think of a lawyer
who is unfamiliar with the acts of the
last General Assembly 7 Would you
trust such a lawyer with an impor-
tant case, even though he had grad
uated il three or four of the finest
law schools III the United States?
No; we think not, vet you would
ask tie people to trust you to guide
into right paths of thinking the little
ones whose plastic natures yon are to
be the instruments of molding into a
noble manhood or a pure and refined
womanhood. And yet you have made
no effort perhaps to make yourself
familiar with the nature OF the being
on which you are to work. But all
this is by the way (; we believe the
great majority of the teachers would
have long since been subscribers 10 an
educational journal, had the subject
been seriously proposed to them, and
had there been a paper specially
adapted to the Louisiana teacher.
Educational papers must necessarily
bo sectional i'll some particulars as
conditions are not the same in e
State.
Few educational papers of the North
and East deal with the problems
which the Louisiana teacher is con
tronted with, simply because condi-
tons are different.
We have long needed a Louisiana
school journal, and we have at last
got it. The Louisiana Educational
Publishing Co. has recently been or
ganized under the auspices of the
State Teachers Association FOE the
purpose of publishing an educational
paper especially devoted to the inter-
est of the public schools of Louisiana.
The paper is known as the Louisiana
School Rerier. 1t is published at
Monroe, La, and is edited by Henry
T.. Chambers, the author of Hansell;s
United States histories.
Every teacher in Louisiana should
subscribe for this paper. Among the
contributors TO the April number, we
mute the following: H. E. Chambers,
Prof Jas. H. billiard of Tulane Uni
verslty, Col. Thos. D. Boyd Of the
State Normal School, and Prof. Alcee
Foltier of Tulane.
This Is a new venture. but we are
sure that the teachers IF OniS;,p, Mil
AID 1t and that It will be a mighty fac
tor tnf good in %elevating the standard
OF education la Louisiana.