The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-11-26

worn out than the others because they
; work all day and sometimes dream of
their work ali night The work of a
, teacher does not end at four o'clock; the
duties are the most exacting of all pro
LESSONS. The teacher should pay great
attention to diet and sleep. She should
study her profession, read books and
papers, buy them for their own, read
them and use the knowledge thus gained
in practical way. Mingle with the
people, especially the parents of pupils.
Teachers should be honest They must
not stay in the school room because they
must. The profession of teacher is
more important than any other at the
impressionable period of child's. James
Whitcomb Riley's saying Pray and
hustle" is a good motto for school
teachers. They should make themselves
the right kind of man or woman that their
pupils might want to be like them.
At the conclusion of these remarks a
vote of thanks was rendered Messrs. AL
bert and Barnes for their entertaining adj
dresses.
On Friday morning Miss Louise Con-
molly, of New York City, spoke on '"The
Mission of the Primary Teacher" The
first duty is.to train child to be good
citizen. Make the pupil desire to go on
to higher grades, to the high school, to
college. The kindergartens and first year
grade have the most pleasant work in the
school in some ways. The result at the
end of the year is very satisfactory, for
where the child knew nothing at the be-
ginning. at the end of the year the work
shows. A child likes organized activity,
likes to play with older children because
they organize, their plays have begin
ming middle and an end.
Also the child likes varied activity. Is
is better to have a dozen studies in the
lower grades and three in the higher than
the other way about? Give the child
broader life by giving him more to think
about Do not confne his studies entirely
to textbooks, but let him learn from the
world around him. Better to lose some
book knowledge than a knowledge of
nature and men.
The Value of the Child" was the second
theme of Miss Connolly's address. At the
beginning of the new century great value
was placed, and truly so, on the wealth of
our country. Our material possessions are
wonderful, almost past comprehension
but what value would our country be
without the inhabitants? There is no real
prosperity without people and people of
the truly great? Queen Victoria was a
woman of no great intellectual attain
ments, no great beauty, no marked power,
but as good wife and mother, a ruler
willing to give up her will for the good of
her people, generous, benevolent, kind, in
fact as type of good christian woman,
she earned the admiration of the united
people of the entire world.
Look at the death of President McKin-
ley. The cessation of all labor, even the
ordinary occupations of the people at the
moment of his funeral was the most i'm
pressive expression of the value in which
the life of good man is held by not only
this nation where he was especially loved,
but by the whole civilized world. The
value of the truly great cannot be esti
mated. Then what is the value of the
child who is to be the citizen of this coun-
try? This, also, cannot be estimated.
The child is the centre of the home life;
the child touches the chords of love in all
hearts, and love is the handspring of life
which makes possible all virtue.
County Superintendent Stees presented
a report of the Teachers Retirement
Fund, showing it to be in healthy, grow
ing condition. He thanked the teachers
for their attendance and attention. "Auld
Lang Syne" was sung and the Institute
adjourned.