The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-23

Older states. The mass of Western
youth, for want of ability and business
energy, was passed unnoticed. cali
forn1a, early awoke to this condition,
made high demands of her teachers,
paid them for their efforts and estab-
llshed a system unsurpassed by any
thing In the country.
Eternal justice is the foundation upon
which all success hinges. No superln-
tendent or principal can long maintain
a good position, or advance to better
one, unless Justice and courtesy govern
his relation to his teachers. NO teacher
can score complete success with her
classes unless she be just, and court
eous as we'll in their management
Those of US who move about with the
air of the frog who said 'Croounk' y
are frequently shown by the public
upon whom we depend, how transitory
is all eminence--"his most of all whose
Kingdom is a school,"
Miss Aline Tieche of the Lincoln
school read a paper on intellectual
Education" and the following is a
synopsis:
Psychology teaches that mind does
not consist OF distinct faculties, but
| that what we choose to call so, are but
different activities of the same power.
Each one is just as essential as the
other, on which account education
! must grant to each faculty its claim OF
| proper attention.
Teaching is a mental process, not a
mechanical one. Every teaching act
and school work in general has Its
| mechanical side; as. making out re-
| ports, keeping up the daily blotter. cor
recting the hayward, applying forms
of drill to put knowledge into the mind
and fasten it there.
The teacher cannot produce in the
mind of the learner a given experience
If patriotism is to be taught by teach
| ing Barbara Fsrietchie,' the teacher
herself must be stirred by that feeling
while causing her pupils to expert
ence it.
1T is an old saying that as the
! teacher. so the school. The meaning
of this is that the pupils mind, in the
act of learning, becomes like the
| teachers mind The teacher builds her
| life into that of her pupils and it is
| absolutely necessary that her life be all
| that she expects her pupils to become"
After song by Miss Retta Briscoe
| of the Garfield school, Miss Marthell
Arnold of the Blaine school read a pa
| per on Educational Fads and Re-
forms as follows:
This is rainbow chasing age. The
attempt to attain the impossible is APP
| parent upon every hand. We see about
us upon every side the man who thinks
| he has solved the problems of per-
| petual motion or invented a flying ma
| chine, or done something which the ex-
perience of ages has proved to be I'M
attainabe.
1.-THE teacher of long experience will
| remember the time in certain cities in
| our state when nature studies reigned
| supreme. Nature was the magic wand
that turned teachers brains into an
cient groves and the childrens lam
guage lessons into polywogs, frogs,
| etc.
mo reasonable teacher. one who is a
| teacher, complains when he is urged
| to be progressive. He is anxious to
progress as far and as fast as common
sense will allow him. Therefore it is
rather irritating to have these So
| called higher critics finding fault with
| him because he will not yield at once
and adopt their superior methods. If
some of these writers of pedagogies
and psychologists who occupy high po-
| sitions in universities and colleges were
| to try to conduct a school themselves
| instead Of telling others how to do it,
| we would not hear so much from them.
What is to be the outcome of all
| this agitation? Some educators say
that there is no causetfor alarm: that