The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-02-05

OF Gladstone. is home talent and
industry, and the only honest
strife is for the best. There are
said to be exceptions TO every
rule. and so there are TO this one;
but the dangers arising from the
employment of our home young
and women in their own schools
are such as to argue that it
should never be risked. 1t may
not only be "a detriment to the
school, but may be fatal TO the
success of the teacher. With q
home teacher in our schools the
public is ever ready and fire.
quently anxious to take n hand
in every little question that
arises over dicipline or anything
else. Every fond mother is sure
that that boy or that girl Of her
neighbours is no more capable of
teaching school than is her own
son or daughter, and that il is
favoritism that employs. The
teacher is watched for an oppor-
tunity to revive or keep alive
some neighborhood pique or
quarrel. and no matter how
spotless the character or ability
OF the young man or woman some
one is waiting TO sneer and say
Il told YOU so !" The ability of
our acquaintance is naturally
subject TO more or less discus
sion among us. and upon it we
entertain different opinions. In
stead of the school board alone
passing upon the qualification of
such teacher as in other cases, ii
is at once the subject of the
whole community and their
differences grow and are carried
into the schools, where they be-
come factions and are fraught
with all the COLLINS OF rebellion
and revolution. Again, rs / have
already estimated, schools and
the cause Of education are cosmo.
politan. There is no advantage
IN inbreeding. The practice is
determent. Change Of seeds and
grating are inspirations. The
product of the same potatoes, or
the same wheat upon the same
ground year after year is no less
deteriorating than rs the product
OF the same school turned back
into its same rooms and classes.
Water in pools grows stagnent
unless forces from without are
brought to bear upon it. So an
interchange of thought. q traffic
in ideas is healthful and should
be extended rather than circum-
scribed, The publication and
circulation Of school methods and
school sympathies should be as
wide as the state. Certain con.
tagions are good; others are bad;
but skillful incubation Of some
thing from without will save the
life OF many languishing school
Life's ideal is harmony lifes
study how TO reach it. The pub
lie school is today its most
potent agency and should be
freighted with its substance; but
carry into il the selfish prides,
contests and jealousies of the
neighborhood and you stultify
its result through the dethrone-
ment of its power,
But school boards are not al
ways SO fortunate as TO get rid
Of the incompetent before he is
employed, they frequently find
find him on their hands, under
contract, at work in their schools
There is no question as to what
should be done even in this case.
although it is serious. The sub
iect implies. it. He should be
gotten rid OF; But how?
In my opinion there can be
but one proper way-the honest
way without any falsehood. any
pickering. The interests OF the
school demand it. and in tho pro.
cess the utmost oandor should
prevail. IL is due to the teacher;
it is due TO the school, that the
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