Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-04-25
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
NOTES ABOUT SCHOOLS AND
THEIR MANAGEMENT.
intercollegiate Games Should BE
Abolished--Who 10 to Blame for the
Failure7-How Shall the Student Be
Taught to Govern-Brief Notes.
"Who 10 to Blame?"

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Taught to Govern-Brief Notes.
"who 10 to Blame?''
Teacher, was your school failure
In the estimation of the community last
term? II SO. "who Is to blame" Look
back over the work, see where the fail
ure is, and If found in yourself, plant
your feet more firmly and come again,
resolved to accomplish something II
nothing else than more experience.
Did you do all that was accomplished?
Did your board know a great deal
about teaching and nothing about help
ing you to some Of the abundance of
good advice?" Were your pupils spoiled
at home by having been allowed to talk
about preceding teachers and innum-
cradle other ways? # these things
are true land likely are, as well rs
many other worse), you could not have
expected successful term under such
disadvantages. A school is hard to
organize, and harder to keep up.
Just before you let some brainless
committeeman or worse, that class of
people who never recognize merit in
any one save themselves. discourage
you. l sincerely hope your eyes will fall
upon these lines. and view with me
the grandest, nOblest and most useful
profession on earth Tor under IT.. with
regard to the three parts Of which it Is
composed. We will call them Thirds.
If you start out with any anticipation
Of success, the first third will be: In
telligent pupils whose minds and habits
are not influenced by bad home sur
roundings. Second-third. A neat and
comfortable school building the walls
and surroundings of which must be
more attractive that the home they
leave, and are supposed to love. Your
house must be large enough to accom-
modate all the students, and enough
for cozily arranged museum, and il a
small school, the same room will not
only answer very well for this. but will
do for your literary or reading room.
The secondthird is not yet complete.
All the best apparatus must be found
there
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be heard throughout the community.
globes, maps. charts, seats, plenty of
textbooks. and numerous supplement
tary reading books, rulers, pint, quart
and alf-gallon measures. shelled corn,
pens, paper, sacks, combs, two mirrors,
soap, towels, foot MAPS mattings for
the aisles. or snwdust, clothes brushes,
large number of pencils, stencils,
speech books, drawing paper and ma
terial, and many other things, the
most important of which are good
stoves and plenty Of fuel, in winter
The house must have ventilation, if
summer. and especially in winter when
stoves are hot from morning till night
The second-third is not complete until
the teacher can say to his committee or
board, mo, gentlemen. I'm not needing
any more apparatus or conveniences."
The third and last one, and not by any
means above the value of either the
preceding thirds is the teacher. The
teacher is not equal to the first or the
second third unless he or she belongs
to the class Of people who do not care
W DcCoLIc TICu, anu WHO mas made
teaching, or is willing to make 1t. a life
work, because Of its nobleness and use
fitness. Christ did not please every
one, nor will teacher. because God
gave people different views Of the same
thing. The true teachers reward will
not be in dollars and cents. Again, the
teacher is unequal to a third, unless we'll
educated and possessed of good ideas
OF human nature. Good men or wom-
en- who are willing to do all in their
power to elevate and strengthen the
bodies and minds Of the precious bows
and girls, and who have the other two
thirds given them at the start, will he
no failure, although the chairman of
the board said you We're
Now, tired, discouraged teacher. add
the three thirds, and see which one of
the three is wanting, and thereby see
then, "whO Is to blame"
II you did your best, that's all an
angel should or could do, and Won
should still be achieving, still pursuing.
and although Providence cuts Won
down, your mark will live and will not
blush unseen. "-Southern Education.
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