The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-03-27
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into right habits of thinking and liv-
ing. The teachers knowledge should
lead her to have much. sympathy with
the child and it's failures and to bet
ter understand the child.
A for Attractiveness. Attractive
ness in dress and personal appear
ance. The school room should be
made attractive as we'll as the sur
roundings. But with these the dis
position OF the teacher should he SO
attractive to the child that it will
leave influences which will be of un-
told value in the life of the child.
c for Concern. Concern for the
lives of the district. The teacher
should make herself part of the
community in which she lives and
should lend her influence in the up
building of the community.
H for Health. The teacher should
be careful of her health as the teach
er who has the best of health will be
better fitted to do good work than the
one who has i'll health. Ill health
and the keeping of late hours may be
the cause of poor work on the part
of the teacher and of an Indifferent
school.
E for Eligibility. Eligibility for a
better place. The teacher who is not
doing more than just the amount re-
quired of her is not eligible for bet
ter position. The teacher who is an
influence in the community and is CIV
ing the best she has to her pupils,
who is leading her pupils to grow in
to better boys and girls and finally
into the best of citizens is the teacher
who is sought after by others and is
the teacher who is eligible for a bet
ter position.
R for Reliability. Teachers who
are punctual, who assign definite
tasks, who give credit for and en-
courage exactness, who are perfectly
honest with themselves, are silently
influencing their pupils in the same
directions and are doing for them
what the world admires in young
men and women. The world needs
men and women who are punctual
and perfectly reliable, although they
do not have so much education.
Her lecture on "The Hum-Drum Of
a Busy Day" was equally as interest
ing and as full of good thoughts.
The address of Prof. P. G. Holden,
lately of the Ames Agricultural col
lege, was very interesting as we'll as
instructive. Professor Holden is a
fluent talker and held the rapt atten-
ton of his audience during his lee
ture on "The True> Meaning of the
PRACTICAL in Education"
He told of his first school work in
the back-woods district after gradua-
ton from college and the opposition
of the people to any change in the
usual order of teaching. He signed
contract not to teach grammar dur
ing the term, but says he had the
best language lessons he ever had in
school. He aroused the interest OF
the children by asking them questions
about some of the animals and plants
around the homes and the school. At
the same time he aroused the opposi-
ton of some of the patrons by teach
ing some of the things not in the
textbooks, but finally overcome their
opposition by getting them interested
in the corn, weeds and other farm sub
jects until he had the whole commun-
ity interested in the school and the
boys and girls interested in the farm
life and how to make conditions bet
ter. The farm lessons were used for
composition lessons and in this way
the children mad something to tell
that was of practical value to them
He showed the teachers how they
might interest the pupils in tying
some of the simple knots used by ev-
cry farmer. How to test the corn by
taking piece OF cloth about ~
inches wide and 80 inches long and d.
viding it into ten squares and then
to take six grains from each ear and
to place in each square and in this
way test enough to plant one acre of
ground. How to keep the water in
the ground and prevent evaporation
by keeping the ground, for three
inches deep, in powdered 'condi-
ton.
He suggested that we have some
troublesome weeds in Iowa that need
ed much care as they are doing much