The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-10-15
TERROR IN VlNTON.
The School Examiners on the
Brain Hacking Frontier.
Some Sample Questions for the
Girl Who Hopes to Teach
Spelling at the District
School.

startling propositions put forth by
the school examiners of that county.
c. B. T., is first on the list.
These are his propositions
81. What are the qualifications
of good teacher?
SO. A pupil sixteen years old
completes his work in the district
school. What should he be able to
do az the result of his school work."
Now, the presumption is evident
that the country school board and
the county examiners settle that first
question The pupil sixteen years
old, and accomplished as he is,
should run for office in Athens Co.,
or start a newspaper In Logan.
Next 2. NJ. S., comes at US on the
Hope Furnace proposition.
"s. If 1 invest all my money in
5 per cent. Furnace stock, salable
at IS per cent. my income will be
$3.50. How much must borrow to
make an investment in 6 per cent.
State stock selling at lO2, to have
that income"
Then be develops the fact that
he is horse jockey and got left In
trade. Hear him:
"7. A man sold two horses at equal
prices, gaining 25 per cent. on one,
and losing 20 per cent. on the other;
his loss by the transaction was $40.
Find the cost of each horse"
But Prof. NJ. F. s., takes the cake
and the bake oven. His question is:
"3. Show by diagram the move
ment of the ribs in abdominal res
piration."
At the Worlds Fair in Chicago
this movement" was proposed in
the streets of Cairo but the authors
ties suppressed it. 1t will be a gay
exhibit in Macarthur. Then We
have the question: "What are the
duties of the PRESIDENT" This can
only be answered by the Cow Bov. i.
He asks. "a. In sailing from Chi
cago to London. through what waters
would you pass?"
We might with the permission Of
Toney Rarleon, say that the voyager
could come down to Cleveland, then
take a canal boat to Chillicothe, Por-
tage to Gander Creek, float down
Raccoon, sail on the Ohio to the
Mississippi. to the Gulf, and then go
to Porto Rico. or the Islands of the
Sultan of Salu. Having wide sea
room the member from Chicago
could. and most possibly would sail
on many seas, if school examiner
on salary. The sense OF the ques-
ton, if any sense in it. is: "What
is the most direct water route from
Chicago to London?"
But here is where the teacher
from Hue, Stella and Eagle Mills
are held up.
"l. Describe fully the. structure
of nerve tissue. -
''2. Name at least five cranial
nerves giving their functions.
"4. Name the bones of the cra-
num- Show bv a drawing the pc
culiarity of the joints Of the cranium.
%. Give the chemical composition
of pure air. How much oxygen is
taken into the body in day?
''6. Why do the lungs fill with air?
81. How does man differ from a
collection OF living organisms? What
is coordination?.
So What is fatty degeneration?
Fibrous degeneration? What or
gans are most generally affected?"
And still they gaped
:, And still the wonder grew,
That one small head should carry all
ne knowed."
If there can possibly be presented
more absurdity to class Of appli-
cants for a certificate to teach a COM
mon school in Vinton or any other
county, we have not seen them and
hope not to hear of them. In an
early day we were teacher and ex.
amIner, and in these later years it
provokes us not a little to see the
examiners put up questions they
can't answer themselves, and annoy
and distract the best young boys and
girls of the country who aspire to
teach school, with lot of stuff no
man of ordinary sense eau answer.
We have no patience with these pre-
tended administrators Of education,
who have the incidental authority to
grant certificates to teach school,
and who havn't sense enough to set
hen, and then propose to deny
boys and girls certificates because
they can not answer the questions
which the Governor nor the President
nor themselves, for that matter, can
not answer.