The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-04-30

give greatest care to defective
senses and correct any tendency
to careless morals.
The school necessarily must
assume in large measure the
burden Of the child's mental de-
velopment but the responsibility
of the school does not end with
teaching the child to read and
write however well this may be
done technically. His home read
inI sho'.ld be governed, to some
extent, by his contemporary work
at school. That education is in
deed Inadequate which fails to
place before he child right ideals
of culture, which does not install
in his mind love of literature
and conception of true beauty
that will enable him to choose be
tween the true and the false, and
through his intellectual growth
elevate the home and purify its
atmosphere. Parents should in
terest themselves in their child's
school life. They should encour-
age him to talk of his school work,
and impel him to his best efforts,
marking their appreciation of his
efforts by honest praise, and by
cheerfully supplying him with all
needful material The parent who
is too busy or indifferent to take
an interest in his child's progress
in schoul fails of very important
duty and counteracts his own use
fulneSs as regards his child.
Right here let me instill in the
mil Of the parent the great i'm
portance OF seeing that his child is
in school every day aud that he is
on time, too. He can not hope
that his child can make much
progress if the child is out Of
school one or more days in a week.
The parent does a great wrong tn
lother children and the teacher, ly
allowing this, for when his child
does return to school again all the
rest OF his class must be he d back
more or less while the teacher tries
to teach his child what The child
has missed and what the others
have already had. The new Ore
gon school law has done much to
correct this evil hut there is too
much latitude still allowed.
By far the greater duty Of both
home and school is the training of
the chiJd's moral nature. The
instillment of the cardinal virtue 8
of truth, purity and kindness
should have its origin in the home;
the Influences which have eur
rounded the child for the first six
years of his life are easily discern
ible upon his first entrance into
school, and it is for we teachers to
continue to encourage the good or
thwart the evil as the case may he.
1t is the duty of the parent to up.
hold the teacher in all reasonable
demands of discipline, and to re-
member that to destroy the child 8
confidence in his teacher is hut to
lay the foundation for that most
unhappy quality Of character. dis
trustfulness of motives of his fellow
men. ltis the duty of the teacher
20 place before the child proper
ideals of life and conduct and to
hold immediate conferences with
the parent whenever he notices
evil tendencies on the part of the
child unless the parent has proven
himself careless in this mattel.
In that case the teacher must do
what little can be done.
Successful cooperation of home
and school can be brought about
only by the heartfelt and sympa-
thetic acquaintance of parent and
teacher This does not imply to
my mind monthly visit to the
home of every pupil by the :eac or,
hut feeling of perfect freedom tu
consult each other at any time re-
garding the welfare of the child.
When the parent realizes that
the teacher, by earnest, honest en-
deavor, is striving to lead his child
to a true conception of life, when
the teacher real zes that his en-
deavor is appreciated and sus.
tanned at home we need have nc
fear that the great end will bt
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