The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1912-01-25
PARENT AND TEACHER.
Duty of One to Other and the Value
of Cooperation.

occurrence is comparable in impor-
tance with the enrolment during the
past months of the vast multitude of
pupils in our public and rural schools.
This event is of vital Importance
to our civic life, and its influence
upon the home is far reaching.
Without drum beat or bugle call
an army of youths have enlisted in the
conquest for knowledge. The signi-
ficance of this event is of sufficient i'm
portance to command the attention
and enlist the cooperation of all good
citizens. What an opportunity! What
a responsibility! And no class of peo-
pie should be more vitality concerned
than the parents. And yet, how many
fathers and mothers there are who
have apparently no concern, or worse
yet, use their efforts in the wrong di-
rection. Here is mighty agency
ready to cooperate with you for the
everlasting benefit Of your child. No
nation spends such vast amount of
money for the education of the rising
generation and the uplifting of human
ity as the United States. Supporting
educational institutions in all branches
for the betterment Of our country.
For each student enrolled in our state
normal schools, the state furnishes
several hundred dollars for the train
ing, free tuition, ETC., until they are
through the full term. Such students
receive the most careful training in the
several courses offered by the state,
special attention being paid to the
building of good, religious, moral char
acters. They are trained in the best
and latest methods as educators to go
out and give their best to multitudes
seeking knowledge.
The parents position is pivotal.
His attitude will largely make or un-
make the best efforts of the teachers.
No class of public servant receives so
little cooperation in comparison with
the value of the service rendered as
that of the public school teacher.
Theirs is a labor of love. The teach
er's remuneration is for that reason
more than the equation of financial
compensation. The home is also an in
stitution whose mission is largely a
labor of love. If we could coordinate
the unselfish love labor of parents with
the teachers labor of love, a decided
advance in efficiency would be marked
in our school systems. This would
lead the parent to uphold the teach
er's ideal of excellence in the mastery
of truth and the teachers discipline
under the provocation of the pupils
Incidence and incorrigibility. There
is some wisdom in the suggestion that
the parent should be punished for the
child's incorrigibility. 1t is certain the
sin is not altogether in the child. There
must be moral impulse in the home
prior to the moral impetus which the
public school is designed to supplement.
Our homes have great deal to do with
the perfecting of our schools. There
are social evils among the youth which
may be materially corrected by
faithful parents.
Teachers are not pugilists. The day of
corporal punishment is thing of the
past. From infancy teach the child
truth and obedience, and the school
bully will also disappear. When par
ents cooperate wisely with teachers,
the trouble in our school will be mater
tally aided by home influence. There
will be fewer photographs in
the rogue's gallery of our cities, and
less juvenile degeneracy in our midst.
The best legacy parent can leave
q child Is an education, and the least
that parent can do. And discharge
their obligations to that child is to give
it fair chance in life. And no child
h IS fair chance in the struggle Of
life, without the equipment of liberal
education. Visit your schools. Don't
be influenced by gossip. See and know
for yourself, and do your duty as par
ents to the best of your ability.
Parent.
Ludden, Jan. %, 1912.
Persons troubled with partial paraly-
sis are often very much benefited by
massaging the affected parts thoroughly
when applying Chamberlain 8 Liniment.