The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-03-01
TEACHERS PRIMARY WORK.
Inc Need Of Emphasizing the Work"--A
Paper Read Before the Association.
BY MISS LILLE LOWE.

/ S t'6At " liC iiiHOCcHCs right
nxed by those in authority and paid for by
every good citizen Of our county. Every
one who claims for himself the title Of
Good Citizen has given his assent and
approval of this right of those who are
tar too week to know but a simple mean
ing OF this word, and who may and often
nave it snatched from them without a
murmur, and by no effort of those who
deem It within their power thus to act. 1t
= q sin to cheat one able to take his
part, but it IS coward and rascal who
leheats the helpless and unsuspeeting.
II One half of the pupils who enter
our schools go only through the first
grade. After the first grade is passed
they enter school perhaps at the opening
ol the term, stay in school for few weeks
or months and are needed at home.
Often it is the middle or near the close of
the term before they enter school and
thatto drop out before the close of the
term. So it is their education is carried
on session after session by bits of months
until the child grows older, realizing that
ne has been robbed of his birthright and
leaves the school-room to earn his daily
bread and go through the world hardly
knowing that he has ever entered it.
| Ill. Since such member of the
Children who enter our public schools 90
only through the first grade and SO few Of
this number go through school, then the
foundation should be broad and strong.
AS the strength of any structure depends
on the foundation, SO the strength of life
depends on the foundation. In layinp
this foundation SO important for strength
lltis the right and highest duty of every
parent to see that their children who are
given to them by God as sacred trust,
are provi.e with the ablest teachers
within their bounds. Teachers that have
given time, thought and means to pre-
paration for their high office. Who
would trust an individual to build ma.
terlal temple, that had never stud led
archltechral art, but parents will trust
the building of the character of their child
to teachers who have never given the di.
vine educational art one hour of honest
study We who have had entrusted TO
Ius the sacred work of laying this founda-
ton may see the rains descend and the
floods come and the winds blow and many
60 down to destruction because their
houses were not founded upon rocks. So
us well for US who have this work in
charge to use every effort and means in
lifting ourselves for the best work or not
to take up this building where the most
skilled workmen are needed.
| ". Again the impressions made in
childhood are the most vivid and lasting
my fellow teachers, are the imp ressions
that you are making daily on that young
mind the ones that ought to be most
lasting? Are they worthy to go through
life with the boys and girlsl Whether
they be or not, they are being left on the
minds of each child there to remain either
for his strength or ruin. Ought we not
often to take retrospective view of
days impressions, a weeks, a months
and a sessions? If "a child lives in an
Indian Wigwam, visits the snow hut of
the Eskimo and travels over the burning
sands with the Arabs he will be a lifelong
friend of humanity.
1t Is no small thing to become in early
youth acquainted with Longfello W /,
Icnnyson, Dickens and to learn from
Stevenson the thrilling stories of child
hood. Where is the child that does not
read with delight Whittier's Barefoot
Boy, and other of his poems? So it is
they learn to know and love our best
writers. The choice gems from the poets,
committed to memory Should furnish food
ana thought and crowd out the impure.
Give your class some pure thoughts
from these writers, or others and send
them out on the playground with the
gems fresh in minds and this will occupy
L >~'ssS usASAS yOA AAi6ilk AlS1N lARQlC =
words these will be heard. The boys
who are cruel to dumb animals, the men
who are heartless ane unfeeling did not
learn the language and secrets Of the birds
and beasts. They did not, IN the pri-
mary school, learn to love nature in all her
forms and recognize friend and brother
In each Of Gods creatures
This has been called the child's age
because parents and educators have come
to realize the rights Of the child.
School life is more attractive and the
child is made to hunger and thirst after
knowledge, for "Wisdom's ways are ways
Of pleasantness and all her paths are
peace"
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