Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-07-31

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out depth or penetration, caricature
his school always marking time' with
no onward march, ever learning rou-
tine lessons, never entering upon the
training which leads to the intellectu-
al or the efficient life; himself a take1
Of wages, never master, he shall not
know in after years the supreme JOY
of a teachers life, the gratitude and
companionship Of walked up minds"
The speaker said that if the Sense Of
Perspective we're taken into consider
alton, the generally accepted defini-
tions of feducation is, learning of facts.
He defined education as training, a
discipline, "the gathering Of power,
the learning to do efficiently and well
the thing we do not like to do.' TAX
ing education in this broad meaning a
teacher must, to do his duty, look
forward to the great possibilities of q
pupil. "With the masters conscience
quickened by this sense of perspec-
tive, with his arm controlled by the
right thought of education, what it is,
may he not at Whiles take his school
into his full confidence and speak with
great frankness after this fashion:
My Pupils-Many of the things you
are learning now with arduOus toll
you will forget by and by, Or rather
like all the rest of US you will know
and unknoW them over and over
again. Many times in the course of
your life as it is your business to know
them for the time being or not. But
who cares for the scaffolding when
the building is we'll made? You may
have forgotten most Of your algebra;
what of that if accuracy is attained,
and it is accuracy upon which the
world insists. You may have forgot
ten much of your geometry, but what
of that if you have attained the art
and habit of attention, if you have
such mastery as will enable you to
set yourself thoughtfully without lott
ering to accomplish the first humble
task the world offers to you-and it
will be humble enough, no DOUBT
that very unwelcome task, it may be,
the very thing you 60 not like to do
and to do it efficiently and we'll, to do
it without sIovenliness, to do it with
exactness."
In regard to discipline the speaker
said: "When shall we learn that not
hereafter but now and here that the
invisible "Winnowing Fan" is.stretch-
ed in ceaseless vibration over the
the threshing floor Of this world; that,
not hereafter, but now and here it is
separating with a swift insistence
those who are striving to do, and to
be. from those who are not so striving?
That it is separating those who in
humility and manliness bow the head
and stoop the neck to the salutary
yoke of discipline from those whose
only words with reference to any
kind Of obedience is, "Let as break
their bands dsunder and cast aaUdy
their cords from u.s."
In regard to needless absences from
school the speaker said "Going to
school is a business and not a con-
venience. The pupil of irregular at
tendance acts as a drag upon his class
and wrongs his conscientious and du-
tifuI neighbors. And so sometimes
parents who do not reflect upon what
absences mean are amazed and their
hearts are wrung with pain and re-
sentiment as they see the results, and
do not consider the cause and they
blame the school when the fault is all
their own.'
This lecture was prepared for the
people of Bellows Falls but is equally
to almost any other place.
Prof. Rocheleau lectured Thursday |
night upon ''The Division of Africa |
Among the Nations of Europe" In
the speaker said that Africa |
was generally thought of as the land |
Of the Pharaohs and little connected |
with the affairs of the present. Be-
ginning with the Crusades and the !
commerce which sprung up between
Northern Africa and the cities upon !
the Mediterranean, he followed Afri
can history to the time the Portuguese
became rivals of Venice and Genoa.
The great work of Henry II Of Portu
gal was touched upon and the begin
ming of voyages down the west coast
of Africa; also the voyage of Vasco
lie CANA and its tsimportant effect upon
future history both of Africa and Eu-
rope.
covered, and the thought and capital
Of Europe were turned towards the
continent discovered by Columbus,