The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1906-09-25
Good Reasons For the Two SEES
siOns in the Public SchOO S.

siOns in the Public SchOO S.
In last Tuesdays issue, just before
going to press, we heard of a petition
being in circulation asking the School
Board to have the hours shortened at
the city school. For the moment,
thinking the hours were from 8 80 a.
m. to p. M, we agreed with the petit
TONERS and made comment to that eff
feet. Meeting Prof. G. w. Chapman
on the street Saturday we stopped him
and after an explanation from him we
readily saw we were in error and he
and the School Board were right. A
half session would be to the personal
interest of Prof. Chapman, and he be-
ing for two sessions clearly shows that
he is working for the best interest of
the pupils and the school,
The hours now are from 8 80 to II 40
a. m. and from to 3 Is p. m. Fifteen
minutes recess in the forenoon and fif-
teen minutes recess In the afternoon.
The smaller children being dismissed
| before the above hour in the afternoon.
! We think it due to Prof. Chapman to
give some of his reasons, which are in
fact unanswerable, why he favors the
two session plan, and we give them be-
low as near as possible as he gave them
to us in our conversation with him:
LIST. The school exists for the good
of the pupils and not for the conven
fence of patrons and teachers.
End. Primary pupils learn only when
they receive individual instruction. The
two sessions give more time for indi.
vidual instruction.
Bird. To develop mental power is as
important as to gain knowledge of
facts. The study period alternating
\ with the recitation period give the
pupils self-activity which cultivates
and develops his mental faculties in
stead OF making him a receptacle into
which the teacher pours her know
ledge. All recitations and no study
may give much useful knowledge, but
1T can nOt3give the power of indepen-
dent thought.
4th. A few children may study stuff =
GENTLY at home. but with the majority.
they either have not the opportunity to
DO so or will not do so. Children to
learnImust study andIto study they mus t
as rule, be cautioned.
9th. To learn how to study is of the
highest Importance and must be taught
to children. The art of study is one of
the fine arts and is not known to all of
our patrons, while the teacher is. or
ought to be, proficient in this important
art.
9th. To eat dinner, warm or cold
and go Immediately to study is very
detrimental to health. The long noon
hour gives time to eat dinner and to al
low 1T to digest to some extent before
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study.
7th. No child is able to concentrate
its mind on a recitation long at time.
however interesting that recitation
may be. The two sessions make the
recitation periods shorter, the time
between the recess shorter and rests
the Commemorative faculties by g wing
the pupils work to do at their seats.
9Th. | know of only one school hav-
ing only one session for the grades. All
that have tried it have gone back to
the two sessions.
9th. To try to do too much work in
a given time must result either in
sighted work or an injured workman.
10th. At the noon recess children
need not and should not come to school
until time to go to work in the after
noon, but for those who bring their
lunches, as well as for those who come
back early, teachers are at all times on
the playground to supervise and oversee
the playing, to teach lessons of justice
in games and kindness to those who
differ from them in play. No profane
orr obscene language is allowed and
the children on the playground taught
many of their most important lessons.