The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-09-19

beiOTo Deblhulub upOh my huDJcSs
FOR this week. wish 20 comment up
on a letter which l received few
days ago from n young LADY, re-
ported that she had made q success
of the "Menagerie," but had been un-
able TO keep ono Of her most inter-
esting animals longer than a few
hours alive. II was the crawfish, who
refused to live, and 1t is too bad, for
he is an interesting fellow.
Now the difficulty with Mr.. Craw-
fish probably was that he died for
lack Of air. We must remember that
he breathcs tho air in the water by
means OF gills which are enclosed
beneath his hard shell and attached
to the base OF his legs. Either a
good supply OF water must be furnish
cd, or II must be frequently changed.
II neither OF these things is con-
venient, one may put a small stone
in the jar which comes above the
surface OF the water, for unlike the
fish, tho crawfish can breathe for
some time in the DIR.
II these cautions are observed I
think that those who may have had
trouble will find that no member CT
the animal family will live in the
school moro happily than the craw-
fish.
AS to the subject at the begin
ming Of this column, l do not want
any one TO think for a moment that
! am going to give instruction 10
log men or other Transfers. / have
the teachers and them only in mind
when 1 repeat, keep on the Brakes
Most OF the schools over the coun-
try have been in session for about
two months, and II the course 0f
study has not kept them back the
chances are that nine out OF every
ten teachers are too far along in
their text books.
A few days ago ! was talking with
young man in regard to what he
had done in Geography. He said that
he had Been through the text
book three times the last school.
He thought that he was giving good
evidence that he was good in tho
subject, but he was not. He was
chiefly telling me how poor his teach
er had been. In another case one
OF our teachers was talking with n
young lady in regard to her work,
trying to convince her that she was
not able TO carry the work OF our
first year Normal. The student said
with convincing pride, 81 can solve
every problem in Rays Practical
Arithmetic" YES" replied the teach
er, "but how many problems have you
been given from outside Of tho
bookg' mot one" was the answer.
How many of your pupils. my dear
teachers. will have to answer such
question in that way, either in
words or by tho more humiliating
/ -'NehSN vi AolAiAb III lu tAdIul0dIlOI
or In the solving Of some simple but
important problem in life?
Put 1t down as a safe principle to
follow that no book and no lesson
should be taken twice. BY this /
do not mean that in no cases more
than one day should be spent upon
one lesson as given in the booK.
for such is by no means true, but
/ do mean that IL more than one day
is needed to get lesson thoroughly
II shall be divided and mastered part
at a time.
Take, for example, the lesson IN
verse which you will tecah your pu-
pills soon, as 1t is part OF the work
planned for the third month, found
on page 6S of the Fourth Reader.
To begin with there are few hours
OF work on the part OF the teacher
in getting ready to teach the lesson.
You must make yourself able TO
read tho lesson to the pupils in such
a way as to be a model for their e.
forts. The six men of Indostan, f"
must become real to them through