The Newtown bee., 1896-02-21
Town Topics. THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
MEETING FOR THE TEACHERS AT THE ACADEMY BUILDING EXCELLENT PA. PIERS AND ADDRESSES.

1 About 9 teachers with the members of the school board gathered at the Acad emy, last week Friday afternoon, at the meeting of the local teachers. Shortly after ? o'clock Chairman E. l.. Johnson | of the school board called the meeting tC order and announced that on account oi l sickness Principal NJ. E. Moves of the 1 Ridgt field high school was unable to be present and his talk would have to be omitted from the afternoons program. He introduced Carl D. StilIson of the HuntingtOwn school, who read an excel lent paper on school management. Mir Stillson opened his paper with the re- mark that it had teen said that it requir- ed as much ability to properly manage a school as it did to manage a kingdom and in his experience he had found it a very difficult problem. As some of the re qui- sites to good management he suggested that the teacher must have a deep inter est in the work to win success, must have an interest in the pu pils and show that interest in every day actions and by treat ing pupils whether rich or poor with the same consideration, must insist on prompt obedience to IeQu 9sts, and let the pupils know why rules and regulations were made and what they meant. He also sug- gested that disObedience should be met with penalty, for rules would be broken unless penalty were attached. He u1pn1d ,Nnnioh beyed as a lesson to the school. The modes of punishment suggested were the appeals to a child's reason and a proper use of the rule for he believed in King So'omon's old saying. He would sug- gest giving freedom as far as possible, allowing the children to get water or throw waste paper into the wood box without asking permission and in case they wished to leave the room by simply raising the finger so he could see it. As some things to be avoided he suggested hat teacher be not severe and unsym- athletic, not scOld and find fault, not afraid to laugh and let the pupils laugh st COmical incident, not to frown when asked for help by pupils and not to keep chOlars in during the intermission for r1ey needed the fresh air. For sugges- i0ns for teachers he advocated plenty of fcesh air in the school room, keeping pu- pils busy, learning them the value of good habits and to shun bad habits and
 ppress upon the pupils that you are '5ere to do them good. His paper was
 tened to with marked attention.
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 ss given the sutiact some thought, f"r '~ ideas were very practical and given in plain and straightforward manner, hich at the same time wss very enter aining. The school board is to be con- graduated on the success of the meeting