The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-01

specific power that all educated
people do not possess and unless one
does possess that power he will not
be successful as a teacher.
There Is a vast difference between
teaching school and keeping school,
and 1t is to these beginners we wish
to give few dont's.
Don't lay down long code of rules.
Just one-"Do right" will carry you
thru to success.
Don't promise child If he does
that again you will punish 1t. If a
child really deserves punishment, after
due deliberatfOn, give 1t al lit deserves.
Don't give too long lessons to little
tots and expect them to have perfect
lessons. Remember you are just from
nigh school or normal work where
after years of study you are expected
to do much more than beginners.
Don't expect healthy growth of a
child who has. to drink from a stag
nant pool" therefore go into the
school room each morning knowing
the work you have to do for that day.
Look over each pupils work for the
day before nine O'Clock in the morning
SO that YOU may present it in the best
manner possible.
Don't talk too much. A noisy teach
er will have noisy school-always.
If you want order you must be orderly
in your dress and manners.
If the young teacher will closely
follow these five don'ts we hereby
guarantee success.
The columns of the Home and
School department will be open to
queries from young teachers who
earnestly desire to gain information.
or course, the young teacher, who
knows it all, does not need(?) infor-
nation.
The Home and School department
will be run in Saturdays issue of the
Daily Evening. Times and in each
weekly issue. If you cannot afford
daily send in $1.00 for the weekly issue
for one year or fifty cents for three
months.
Every teacher should take an up
to date newspaper.
When the wreck occurred on the
Great Northern where several lives
were lost by drowning in the lake we
sent a copy of The Evening Times to
a sister of young man who lost his
life in that wreck and this was the
first news she received of the accident.
The Evening Times gives the latest
news. You should have it. 1t gives
many selections from recent poets,
all of which will be found useful in
your school work. If you wish club
rates for the sake Of using a news
paper in school work for current
events and timely topics write for
special club rates. Very favorable
terms will be made to teachers.
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desks that there is contested condi-
returned marked. unable to fill"
One manufacturer informs us he
could sell right now more desks than
year and he has made as high as
100000 school desks in a single year.
School officers should order their
desks as early as possible.
There are many changes In prin-
cipalship of schools throughout the
state this year. We shall be pleased
to receive notice of any changes TAX
ing place now or later in the season.
Supt. P. s. Berg, who has taught
so long at Larimore, and who has been
a prominent state institute conductor
for several years and one of the fore
most educators in the state, will SUI
pervlse the Dickinson schools this
year.
President Merrifield left Bemidji
July 10th for a trip to Isle Royal.
Miss Lucy SlOcum, former very
successful teacher in Pembina county,
is now selling school supplies for Geo.
w. Colborn Supply Co., in the western
part of the state, and meeting with
abundant success. She is good
hustler.