The Yale expositor., 1902-01-24

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be of untold value To the little folks.
See that pictures OF our master build
ers OF the world look down upon your
children from nicely papered or fres.
coed walls. Regarding your children.
Is Il not your duty 20 send them 10
school regularly. 90 send them ON time.
10 furnish them with good books and
all necessary suppliesy Go step fur
Their. Encourage your children with
words OF praise and cheer-live with
them their school lives and you will be
repaid thousand fold, not only i'm
your children's benefit but 20 your own
satisfaction and peace of mind.
ltyour children come 10 you with COM
plants OF school, do not rashly condemn
the teacher. Remember that she Is "a
very ordinary mortal, perhaps an ordi-
nary country girl, or allow me 10 say, n
green city cousin green at least in
country Ways who is fresh from street
car lines and furnace heated rooms
See her plodding her half-mile or more
TO school through all kinds of weather,
lighting her own fires, sweeping and
busting her school room and making
ready for forty or more Bessies aud
Johnies whose mothers sigh for school
TO begin that peace and quietness may
reign In home for at least five or six
hours day.
DO not then rashly condemn the
teacher; neither do as often hear par
ents say, "Well, my children never come
home with complaints from school |
simply don't allow them, and il they
are whipped in school | give them a
finishing of touch
Pray do not rush TO either extremes
but when you have reason TO believe
that everything is not harmonious In
school, make a personal investigation.
\ on may find the fault on both sides.
and stranger TO say you may not find
fault ut all after you have thoroughly
examined the ease.
Visit your school. isit IL often.
School should be such IN interesting
place that you should a. roughly enjoy
your visits and bear in mind that the
school, IL IL Is doing It's best, will well
come and appreciate y,ur visits; IL not
u is doubly your duty Co be there and
aid Ia raising IL 10 a higher standard
And lastly In your relation 90 the
school by all means secure the services
OF an excellent teacher. Never before
in our history are there more trained.
happy 90 say never before was there
such a demand for those teachers. 30
do not look askauce at 50, $40 or $50 n
month more In teachers salary when
the reputation OF your school Is at
stake-when the proper training of
your boys and girls Is i'm jeopardy. and
after securing competent teacher give
her your heartiest cooperation, with.
out this the most earnest teacher must
fail 10 secure the best results, for you
know parents that I'm your own fam
lilies, how you have studied the tenn
permanent of each child. You well know
how dispositions differ. Now, the
teachers first task is 90 make an indi-
vidual study OF each child and act
with him accordingly in order TO obtain
the best results. You can easily see
what an undertaking IL Is for the teacher
and who can better aid her than the
parent. The race for success i'm life
largely depends upon getting a right
start. / believe the first five or six
years of child's school life are often
more effective In shaping his future
than we are prone 10 believe.
Perhaps some will say that providing
attractive school houses, spacious school
grounds, well stocked reading tables,
and high priced teachers is all bosh,
that IL is extravaganza multiplied, but
as such is now considered one of the
most potent factors in developing IN
telligent. noble citizens, we should bear
In mind that twenty, thirty, forty years
back. the yagabond, the pauper, the
criminal of today were i'm innocent
childhood. Even though you are quite
sure that your child can not but be
must consider further that your
neighbours child in all his innocence OF
today may not be so fortunate, and
we all realize that in some degree we
are held our brothers keeper.