The Holt County sentinel., 1910-08-19

Intelligent and Enthusiastic Pupils
Are Essential to the Sue
cess of a School"
By K. NJ. BROOKS. SUPT.

ton as the first factor, i'm a good
school. Let us examine now the Sec
ond, 1.-The Spirit of the Pupil"
On the occasion of his annual visit
i'm April, DIR. Joseph Eliff, inspector
of high schools for the state universe
ty, addressed the high school on the
subject, 'The New Spirit i'm Educa-
tion.' He defined this as the spirit
of the Pupil" Among other things,
he said: "A better day has dawned
for the high schools, and grammar
schools as well, because boys and girls
and young women and young men have
come to realize, as never before, the
purpose for which they are going to
school, and idleness, indifference, and
misbehaviOr are disappearing from
our schools and the spirit of study,
thoughtfulness, self-respect and self
control is taking the place of mischief
and carclessness.
81 have visited Al high schools:in
this state this year and have never
seen but one pupil misbehave and try
to take advantage of his teachers and
schoolmates. / can name half dozen
schools where the dishonest, idle and
misbehaving pupil would not be toll
Grated by his fellow students a single
day. They would bring him to swift
justice and make it exceedingly un-
comfortable for him unless he chose
to behave himself and get his lessons.
Upon you, the persons, largely for
whose benefit this school exists, rests
as upon no one else. the responsibility
of continuing good school i'm Ore
gon, and of maintaining high STAN
dard OF discipline and scholarship in
this high school," DIR, Elliff then il
Illustrated and amplified this RESPONSE
bility of the pupil, and would we had
space to quo.e further from his splen-
did address. for his theme strikes an
other foundation stone of the good
school.
Let us see then what characteriZes
the good pupil. First, the faithful
pupil believes i'm education. He
knows he needs schooling. He assure
that true education will tit him for
larger success in life, render him more
useful to his fellow men, and brings
to him full measure of individual
happiness and satisfaction. Accord
ingly he appreciates the educational
opportunities, the school facilities
provided by kind and generous COM
munity. He goes to school because he
needs to 60, because he wants to 60,
because he enjoys going to school.
He gives his teachers no trouble,
causes his parents no anxiety, brings
to his classmates no shame and leaves
for himself no regrets. His grades
are satisfactory. he earns his diploma
and merits the honors conferred upon
him at commencement.
~ The good pupil is loyal to his
school. He is patient with its imper-
fectionS, pushes for its progress. takes
pride i'm its success, and cherishes it's
memory. There are three classes of
pupils with respect to this matter |
There are those whose supreme atti-
tude is fault-tinding. They take oc-
caSiOn and make occasion to criticiSe |
unfavOrably one or all of their teach |
ers: the textbooks are not of the right |
kind: there is something wrong with !
the building, the library or the labor !
atory: the discipline of the school is |
not good: their schoolmates are un- |
kind: some other town hasa much bet |
ter school, and SO these croakers go |
about with spotted glasses on their |
eyes looking for rotten places i'm the |
institution of which they are part: !
but enough said they are not usually |
regarded as good pupils.
The second class have nothing TO f,
say. They may be attending ever so
good school, but they never say any
thing about it, neither to their school,
mates, nor at home, nor to those not
All SSLoOi wiz ouSiic w dttSltu. 1HCt
may appreciate the school but nobody
knows it. The whole community may
be agitating proposition for improy-
ing the school but you cannot tell on
which side they belong. The croaker
may attack the whole system but he
escapes them unchallenged. This
class is better than the first; better
say nothing than to speak evil. But
these are not the best pupils. The
third class are loyal to the school.
They believe in education. They try
to bring in new students and to hold
those enrolled: they stand 10y their
school: they boost for the tax levy:
push clean athletics: while neither
undertaking the needs and shortcom-
ings, nor overrating the achievements
of their school they are ever found