Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-09-25

tend TO cure the moral defect. Inc
moral nature muss be educated as well
as the mental or physical for a perfect
otherwise, We shall pro-
duce the educated knaye, and no per-
son can be so harmful to society and
the world as the educated person who
has no moral scruples. Children are in
iuenced for good or bad by every act OF
each person with whom they come in
contact and are wax to receive and iron
to retain every impression produced
upon the tablets of their hearts. In the
education of this moral nature the
teacher, then, has large and appro-
pirate part which can be filled by no
one else. The moral disposition is gov
erned by so many things, such as,
heredity, influence of parents, environ
ment, companionship, etc, that the
teacher often hasa hard and reverend
ing warfare against influences and ten
denotes that are immoral; still the
teacher can be comforted with the
algebraieal rule that the sum of mega
tive elements will be diminished when
positive elements are added.
1t has been said that ''the education
of the child should begin with the
grandparents. The teacher OF to-day
is TOO late in time to influence the grand
parents OF the past age but the fact that
he may be factor in the moral life OF
the future grand child throws q great
responsibility upon him.
Moral training begins with the home
and, as ''like begets like immoral
parents should not wonder at their i'm
moral children for the miracle is that
they should be otherwise. The teacher
as rule has only an indirect influence
on the home.
With the physical surroundings Of
the home life the teacher can do little,
but when the school house is reached,
then, only the beautiful orderly and
moral should be presented to the senses
in order to exert moral influence.
A poorly-made, badly-kept schoo
house, with unsightly yard, and dis
graceful outbuildings encourages de
structive tendencies and immoral ideas
Bad companionship is sometime
forced upon the child by circumstance
beyond its control, but at school it j
one of the duties of the teacher to guart
each child from the worst side Of him
self and his companions and to deyelo
the good and crush the evil tendencies
| A iudicious, sincere teacher often ca
create such pure moral tone in tn
scholars that they, Of their own accord
will shun and ostracise one whom the
find immoral. For special moral il
struction almost every lesson furnishe
some theme which the teacher can dra
out and fix in the mind Of the pupil.
No person should become teache
who has vices or immoral habits and tt
true teacher will watch every actio
and even every thought, as though
!, are the threads of which the future ia
: rio OF action is wrought.
Now we come to the intellectual sid
7 the education Of which is consider,
generally to account for the existen
: of our public school system.
We find that the faculties OF the mil
are developed in a regular order.
Z childhood the observing power is stron
est as that is the only way BY which q
child can get supply Of ideas, cru
though they may be, to convey b
meaning. In order to get this stock
: facts or ideas the child makes use Of u
: FIVE senses and we find it TO be law
" nature that the more senses there a
:" used in the acquiring OF an idea Il
: more definite and fixed is the idea
the mind. The teacher should remel
s Der this law anG convey the idea to t
: child's mind by as many avenues
possible.
A word here is fitting as to one Of 1
teachers duties. An obligation rel
= with every teacher to protect each CHI
: in the school room, as far as possib
= in the use of the senses, az, for exam
= many a child has ruined its eyesig
= through disregard Of the teacher. FL
- out whether the inattention and listle
ness OF that dull pupil may not be d
to defective hearing. In class Of fl
~ probably dozen will have more or i
y defective hearing and often the CHI
- gets punished, instead Of pitied, throu
70 ignorance Of this defect.
- As the young child learns by obse
!. ing, so object lessons should play
u prominent part and they can be ma
!. Of great benefit by the skillful teaci
in the acquisition Of ideas.
"a Very early in youth comes, az we n
OF call it, the retaining and reproduce
,e- faculty, generally called memo
To- though there is another imports
y. branch of this power known as ina
nj nation or fancy.
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