The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1897-09-30

ton, and how difficult you know 1t be at
all times to administer it Alright. If we
would carry out with success a rational
system of discipline, we must be pre-.
pared with consider BILE mental exertion,
for one child there must be study, for
another ingenuity, for some patience, for
some self control. You will daily be
called upon to analyze motives of juven
lie conduct. Your faith will often be
taxed to maintain the requisite perse.
verence in course which seems to pro
duce little or no effect. Not only will
you have to analyze the motives OF your
children, but you will have to analyze
your own motive. You must cultivate
to good purpose that most complex of
subjects, human nature and it's laws as
exhibited in the children, in yourself
and in the world. In brief, you will
have to carry on your own higher edu.
cation at the same time that you are try.
ing to impart education to your children
"The important thing in education is
not so much that every child should be
taught, as that every child should be
given the wish to learn. Children are
by nature eager for information, they are
always putting questions, in fact We may
to a great extent trust to their instincts,
and in that case will do much to educate
themselves. Too often, however, the
requirement of knowledge is placed be
fore them in form 30 irksome and ia
tiguing that all desire for information is
choked, or even crushed out In that
our schools become places for the discour.
agement of learning, rather producing
the opposite effect from that at which
we aim. Nothing cements more firmly
the foundation stories of an education
than firm friendship between pupil
and teacher, and this is helped by the
friendly interest of the parent toward
the teacher. Many discouraged heart
has been cheered by personal inter
view with a parent, and many serious
difficulty averted by it Parents should
not allow tale bearing do not encour.
age criticism, even if there is cause for
it. When the parents and the teacher
are in touch, then the school becomes
their common interest.
"The teacher who can seize continu.
ously the opportunity OF more and more
perfect adjustment to better and higher
conditions, to balance some immoral evil
with some purer influence, acting from
without, to make the requirement OF
knowledge a delight, possesses the secret
| of successful educator.
'Sir John Lubback classes education
among the pleasures of life, and Bacon
said that, Our studies should be neither
couch on which to rest; nor cloistel
in which to promenade alone nor as a
tower from which to look down on 9th
ers nor as fortress whence we may
resist them; nor as workshop for grain
and merchandise but as rich armory
and treasury for the glory OF the creator
and the enoblement of life
IF we do not study in this spirit anG
impart that love of learning which is
better than learning itself. All oul
learning will but leave us as weak anC
sad as Faust, of whom Goethe wrote;
'Ive now alas ! Philosophy,
Medicine and Independence too,
And to my cost Theology,
With ardent labor studied through,
And here stand, with all my lore,
Poor fool, no wiser than before"
"And in the noble words OF Epictetus
'You will do the greatest service to tn,
State, if you shall raise, not the roofs o
the houses, but the souls of the citizens
For it is better that great souls shoult
dwell in small houses, than for meal
slaves to lurk in great houses ,"