The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-12-13

the teachers at once adopt 1t and con.
duct their schools accordingly.
A VAST DIFFERENCE.
A vast difference exists between the
country school and the Union school
and with all the superintendent
knowledge of the conduct Of the Un-
ion school his effort for the rural
schools in these cases came to naught.
A part of the trouble was with the
course OF study because the schools
could not be made to fit it and the
remainder wss.with the teachers be-
cause they did not try to maze the
best of their opportunity to systems-
tize the schools.
We believe the authors of q course of
study for the district school should be
the teachers who conduct those schools.
Why couldn't the teachers Of every
township in this county cooperate in
framing a course that they know they
can use. have their board of education
adopt it and print enough that every
home in the township could have q
copy and then work with this manual I
In one township in the county this
has been done with entire success, that
board arranging to have the teachers
meet at least once month and be-
come acquainted with each other &
work so that each knows just what the
other is doing. This could best be
done with a superintendent whose
whole duty should be to keep the
school as a unit. You may talk OF
GENERALIZATION now if you will, but
systematized district schools and town.
ship supervisors will come first.
CO." you may say, 1--WE have tried
township supervision and cannot say
that we have derived any benefit from
it," May 1 ask to what extent have
you had itf Did not your superin'
tendent do five days of heavy work il
his own school room and what could
he be expected to do aside from that
in six or seven others scattered over sc
many milesf That is not the kind oi
supervision that we are talking about
That of which we speak will cost ths
township board of education at leas
five hundred dollars year. He or sn'
must be one who knows the distric
school He must be able to direc
teachers in a .tsctful way. In fact tn
requirements of q township superin
tendent in tact and executive ability
must be equal to If not greater thar
that of the Union school. Anothel
fact which has made township super
vision less of success is that som,
teachers failing to see the benefits o
union in their work refuse to pas
under the direction of q superintend
ent and as result those schools ar
narrowed down to that teachers owl
sphere. Let us get together. fellow
teachers, and stay together and lighter
our work by putting some system int
these district schools
! Kathryn Day, of Huntsville, the
recited my Neighbor's Calf in
creditable and pleasing manner.
Il The address was given by Prof
Harlan E. Hall, of Mansfield, o.
He believes in beginning the teach
ling of science in the kindergartens an
lower grades, storing the child g min
with facts of observation. so that the
Twill be better ready for the work whe
they come to the High School 81
said that 'the knowledge of ho'
soap-stone is formed is Of more valu
to q pupil than to know that Alban
is the capital of New York" Be
lieving that we as teachers are nc
primarily making minds but men, 70
we have moulding influence whic
is given us by Providence Educatio
is fitting a child into its environment
, the luDricating fluid being In th
teachers own heart. Through th
! study of Nature lead the child up
Natures God. Mr.. Hall closed b
intensely interesting and impressiv
talk with quotation from Longfe
/ lows "Hiawsths.
Fl BERTHA DUNAWAY,
Secretar,