Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-12-12
COIORfD TEACHERS
READING CIRCLE
Give Much Good Advice at Bi-MOnthly
Meeting for Be ,tering Conditions
at Local Schools.

Reading Circle met Friday evening,
Dec. 8, 1911, with Prof. WIN. Town
send presiding. The subject for dis !
.cussion was The Essential Ele- |
ments in Teaching" The subject was |
treated under six sub-heads by diff |
ferent teachers as follows: First, Be |
fair and treat all alike, was dis |
cussed by Mrs. Louella Davis. Mrs. |
Davis began by saying, that the first !
requisite that should characterize
the teacher, is that her Or she be
filled with sincere love for humanity.
She said: THE school room is the
wrong place to show partially. Chill
dren are very sensitive and quick to
think that the teacher thinks more
of some one else than themselves"
She said that some teachers have not
learned this and hence are partial
toward the children from the wealthy
families, those who are always
clean and neatly dressed, and espe-
cially those who are smart in their
books. If the teacher is not wise
and tactfuli along this line he may in
cur the ill7feeling and even the ha-
tired of many "a child. The writer has
known boys to come to manhood
still nursing that kind Of spirit to-
ward their teacher. Prof Townsend
added as reason for treating all
alike, that the word common school
does not mean that they are inferior
to other schools, but as the name in
dicates they are common to all, they
are schools at which and in which
all have equal show.
Second, Be patient and keep your
temper, by Miss Essie Talbot No
one, she said, should enter the
teachers profession without first
acquiring the art of patience If
the teacher is loud and bosterous,
the pupils will invariably be the
same. The teacher teaches by ex-
ample as we'll as by precept. Thus
by example we should teach the chill
dren to be slow to anger, to. endure,
and always TO exercise patient en-
deavor. Prof. Townsend said that
almost any one liked to play with a
swapping turtle. Thus, if the teach
er flies into a passion and snaps at
everything, the children will act up
just to see him snap
Third, Be Industrious and keep
your school busy, By Miss Katie E.
Hays.
Miss Havis classes this as the first
requisite to good order Industry
does not consist in ones doing so
much himself, but in knowing how to
plan to keep others busily engaged.
Upon this almost wholly hangs the
worth of the teacher. Truly in this,
the teacher should be an example for
according to the Holy Writ Like
people, like priest" The teacher
spirit to lag, for If he does this seems
catching and the whole school is soon
stupid and careless. 1t is very
wrong for teachers to consume their
time writing, sewing, doing fancy
work or anything else which takes
their minds and energies from their
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Fourth. Be neat and keep your
roam clean, by Mrs. jamie Barnes.
Mrs. Barnes said that children are
great imitators, and that by example |
they should here be taught to keep
their rooms clean, letting in the sum
light when possible and we'll yenti-
lated. I'VE suffer from, or because
OF violation of natures laws, so just
in that proportion will We be well |
Mrs. Barnes rendered quite an ex-
cellent paper on Hygiene Princi-
PIES
Prof. Altheimer said that the time
is not far distant when everyone will
NC HSlu lOE me COnOlJlOna
of his health based upon sanitary
conditions and hygienic teachings.
Fifth. Be gentle and keep your
= voice low, by Mrs. Katie Smith.
The teacher should always be gen.
tie in voice and action. She should
always be natural and self possessed
Grown people are made nervous by
loud or harsh tones to say nothing Of
children.
Il the teacher is loud and bolster
ouss the children will naturally be-
come the same.
The teacher should always speak
in clean, gentle tones. but should
never speak in high tones. Pupils
allow the teacher who is always
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