The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-04-20

I'm glad / can teach. Some OF my
brightest moments Gas well as some
Of the bluest) have been spent In the
school room. Next to raising q
family Of independent, self relying
children, who will in the future make
US self-sufficient responsible, reliable
men and women; men and women
who will rule the home and state
and nation iudiciously,:lI say next
in order to this stands TIE training
of children in the school room. /
like to tell them about our govern
ment, that its the grandest on earth
because we can do as we please and
that the best government is where
people govern themselves. Then l
like to tell them about obedience
that obedience is the very founda-
ton stone of home, school and coun-
try and of liberty.
l just like to beatIt into the heads
(as it were) of the children that the
bog who deliberately and defiantly
disobeys his parents, is planting for
himself path of thorns and BRAN
bles. The boy Tor girD who wilfully
disobeys his teacher aud defies her
authority, is only hurting himself.
He is not hurting the teacher and
the small revenge he may exulting-
ly feel for while, is dear pay for
the lifetime injury he is doing him
self, his intellect, his conscience and
soul. The influence for evil too,
which he Yields over his school.
mates, may result inisomething ter
rible. Oh! do like to wax eloquent
on thai subject.
Then the relation between the pa
rents and teacher-the home life
and the school life affords a
subject that is just rich with
food for thought. When there
is antagonism between the parents
and teacher there is strife among
the children. Even calm indiffer-
ence on the part of parents and
teachers toward each other does not
produce the best results. OH there's
bushels in this subject, but haven't
time to bring it out.
There's so many beeutiful subjects
that l like to tell the children about
the beautiful subject OF botany,
with its species and classes and
genera, and the subject of animals
and birds. Geology that tells about
the formation of the earth's surface,
and how smart men have learned to
read the progress of the earth's cre-
alton by the stratas OF rock and the
position of mountains. ETC., and |
just know enough of these subjects
to know that it is a mere probing
into the great subjects that master
minds have spent their lives ia
studying, bringing out and proving
It's amusing to me now TO look back
and think how much | thought
knew when / finished school in the
SOS. Bless your heart | would
have felt disgraced had my pupils
caught me working out an example
at night ION the sly" for the next
days recitation. | thought people
expected young graduate to know
1t all. There, didn't mean to tell
that had sheep skin" but bless
your life It's up at my fathers in
Athens, rolled up in a picture tube
and the dirt daubbers have ceiled up
each end of same. But, dear me, | |
have never needed 1t. I've had TO |
stand examinations right on like |
other teachers who know no educa-
lion except that gotten in the free
school room.
And now, Mr.. Fudge has come to |
make our stairs aud steps and Uncle |
Snort says / must drive to town
and get five pounds of eight penny
lails, some coffee and sugar, so I'll
lave to come down from among the
Itars. l started out to tell how / |
aught class in fractions summer
'efore last, but III have to put it
fl till next week.
Wasn't that fine rain the other
light? l guess the people who got
he Will Moore Hardware Company
o take down their heaters and store
hem away wished they hadn't.