The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1911-05-19

think OF the planY III you think IL
will be good plan | would like for
you to let me know by return mail.
Twill close for this time, hoping to
hear from you by return mail, l re-
main as ever,
Your friend---.
Dear Mrs. Todd:
l expect to ride to school next
year II l come and l will ride the
same horse that l did this year and
II pass will go into High School
next year. Do you think l will WIN?
Yours truly---.
Prof. Elmer French who teaches
near Tyrone made us pleasant call
Saturday afternoon. School teaching
seems to agree with him. He is plan
ming to attend the Sweard county Nor
NAL in July. We have had several
calls for men teachers for our schools
and we gladly welcome Mr.. French.
Mr.. Herbert Brown, clerk of Dist
No. l6, came in and showed us the
petition for a new school house for
District Is. 1t is signed by more
than one-third of the voters of the
district. We have sent for the blank
notices for the Bond election and will
send them out to the clerk, Mr..
Brown, as soon as we receive them.
We are glad to see a good school
house replace the little "Soddy" that
has answered the calls of school and
church and entertainments in the
past years. We wish we could divide
the district but valuation is not E.
nough to do so according to the new
law which requires valuation Of
100000 for a new district. We
wish the new Golden Plains School
House success and rejoice in the har-
mony and good sense displayed by all
in the district. Each seems to be
working for tie best interests of his
.neighbor as we'll as his own.
At a meeping of the Kansas teach
ers association one of the speakers
created stir by asking lot Ofques-
lions the teachers could not answer.
Some of the riddles were: What is a
Babcock test? What If a Tedder?
What is dry farming? We believe
our teachers could answer these ques-
tions.
Friday we visited several of the
grades In company with Misses Hen
line, Kelton, Odneal and Mr. Lawr'
ence' We always enjoy visiting
school, There is always something
so original in a groupe of children
either large or small-Such an imita
tion of we larger children. In near
ly every room we found boys and
girls who once called US their teacher
and as we looked back through the
vista of years we wondered and hoped
. that we had sown some seed that II
coming years they would thank III
for. The hill of knowledge is hare
to climb and we teachers should evel
be on the alert to extend the helping
> hand at the right time and help the
little feet to find firm place to stant
on in their efforts to climb higher
just telling interesting stories ant
keeping them amused Is not teaching
school, that's just keeping school. II
takes perspiration to teach school
-, One can keep cool, decidedly so, ant
keep school. 1t takes nerve anC
thought and wisdom to discover what
knowledge the child already possesses
, in numbers, In reading, In grammal
and then graft and cause to grow tina
foundation, the new knowledge, 81
that 1t will grow and blossom anC
bring forth fruit and the child will
feel the ecstatic delight of learning
something new, then when that idei
has taken firm hold, grow out o.
cause to grow another idea and so OF
: until the climbing grows easier ant
the child with joy learns that he car
go with less and less help and final!
he can reason and think out thing
for himself. Much, yes, PRACTICAL!
everything depends on the teacher
1t is said of John Hopkins that he OF
one end of log and child on TIN
other end made a University.