CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1904-04-21
>voL. XVII.
A View Of Pull
and Public 81

cation not because IL is considered
better than other papers and addresses
Tor II Is not-but because 1t contains
suggestions that will be discussed and
considered in these columns at some
future time.)
you look sad" said the teachers
wife ~ her husband came in for sup
per.
Yes" was his rep.y. mot solitary
person came in today to tell me how to
run the school l cannot stand neg
lect.'
feel sure that not many Of cur
teachers are pining away from similar
cause.
The meetings we read about-mother
meetings, teachers meetings, club
meetings, citizens meetings, summer
Istitutes, chautauquas and the like,
THAT occur so frequently. would seem
TO indicate that the teacher is pretty
well supplied with advice and instruc-
tion.
1t is remarkable indeed how many
: 1eople feel amply qualified TO give
DHricrs and ndvice to teachers about
their work
Wherever you find two or three
gathered together discussing a school
affair, there will you find wisdom and
criticism that passeth all understand
ing.
Generous and patient as they are,
yet have heard teachers complain
that the thing that bores them most is to
hear man who has laugh. some ten or
fifteen yesrs back. trying to tell them
how a school should be conducted to-
day. So for this and the additional
reason that you lhave 80 many better
sources Of information. advic. and
inspiration, l shall have little to say on
the subject.
But Just word or two-I may be
considered little old fashioned, but /
still believe with Old Lady Means of
ard iarnin goes together" and have a
healthy regard for that teacher who
hasn't advanced 80 far in the new
methods Of instruction and discipline.
ASGt that she still knows when and
Vwhere and how to apply the CAD and,
does II when needfui occasions arise.
II / had q school made up of Emmy
Lous / think could rule IL with love
l. aud the golden rule, but with Shockeys
ncd Sonnys and Sentimental Tommys
and children like yours and mine to
deal with, there are times when
hickory switch may become a power
full assistance.
have wondered too at times, in our
hurry to get all the good new things
and IN our haste to push and crowd the
ehildren through to grades and up
through the high school in order to
prepare them for college at an early
age, II we were not liable to sacrifice
something in thoroughness in the COM
mon branches.
The three r. are as important today
rs they were back when they were con-
siderrd the only essentials, and mans
bad spelling shows up a whole lot
worse In the modern typewritten cor
respondence.
i do not know what the school jour.
mails are saying now a-days about these
things but / believe that most teachers
could bear down little harder with
profit, ON the spelling class and on the
classes In some Of the other common
branches.
Some books tell us that the aim Of
education is to develop and train the
mind rather than 10 burden the
student with facts.
This is probably true in college or
academic courses but'the grade teacher
Mguld remember this-the average
business man at forty figures interest,
percentage and mensuration; spells,
pronouncss words and forms sentences
just ns he learned them before he was
sixteen.
have no fault to find with the semi
classic high school courses of today.
yet considering the great proportion
who never get further than the district
or high school, consider that graduate
best fitted for life's work who knows
thoroughly his common and commercial
arithmetic, his spelling book, and who
can express his ideas well in writing
and In speaking.
Here is Just one practical suggestion
want to make the best possible sup
Elementary reading you can get for the |
school room is found in your local news |
papers. Get the twelve year old boy
TO reading about local people and |
things--about Quail on The Increase,
on the farms near by and Of Dan Halls
Encounter with Mountain Lion on