The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-11-06

This article, which was run in last
Saturdays issue of The Forum, Is run
again today on the request of several
of the teachers who are attending the
North Dakota Educational association
convention.
She must know more, do more, be
more, and endure more than any 9TH
er bread winner. She must know ev-
erything in heaven above, the earth
beneath n the waters under the
earth. She receives no special credit
for knowing them, but woe be to her
If she knows them not.
She must teach the three RS as
In the olden times, but mark the ad-
dition.
h must teach physiology with all
the skill Of a physician, but without
his opportunity for hiding his mis-
takes.
She must teach civics with all the
learning Of a lawyer, but without his
library.
She must teach virtue and godli-
ness with all the zeal Of q minister,
but without his Bible or his sectarian
bias.
Under the title Of Nature Lessons
n must teach the elements of all
the science known to men, and often.
too, without a. text book.
She must teach music, drawing,
penmanship and physical culture
with the ability of a specialist, but
must give the supervisor all the cred
1t for success attained.
She must give direct instruction
In morals n manner or the schools
Will go to the demnition bow-wows.
She must teach the effect Of alco-
hol n narcotics with all the enthu-
siasm Of the original investigator, the
laboratory methods of the expert
chemist, and the blind devotion of the
religious zealot, or the women of the
w. G. 7. U. will have compton fits.
She must teach business forms,
business usages, short cuts, and COM
mercial law with all the knowledge
of a bookkeeper and a corporation at
torney combined. or the schools are
impractical.
She must teach spelling as of old.
but must make her own book, having
the pupils copy it Zach day as she
goes along with no knowledge of
what has preceded or what is to fol-
low, to the end that all Of her hours
out of school may be fully employed, !
and that she may have no time for
recreation or frivolous amusementS.
She must do a continuous perform |
ance in the line of new and untried
theories which she well knows are i'm
practical and worthless to keep things |
stirred up for fear someone may be |
called al old fogy.
She must spend from eight to ten
hours a day in the unwholesome at
mosphere of q. poorly ventilated
schoolroom, n one to two hours
more in selecting material and copy
ing 1t on the board, to be again cop
led by the children; thus exhausting
her vitality and running the. eyesight
OF her pupils to please the fool fancy
of some sap-headed superintendent
VINO thinks he Is carrying out an Or
iginaI scheme.
h must put old heads on young
shoulders, give maturity of judgment
to infant minds, cover the ground out
lined in the course of study, regard
less of the g or capacity OF the chill
dren and have them pass their exam
nations without worriment to them,
annoyance to the parents, Or concern
to the officials, or she will never rank
A in the inspectors books. T.
She must try and continue to try
silly experiments Of young and callow
principals who are learning the GUS
mess empirically, and with whom she
dare not differ.
She must be present at innumera-
BILE teachers meetings.; called often
pan or purpose, without lead
ership or direction, without beginning
or end, and have no visible earthly
object except to consume time and ]
a meeting" - (
She must be wisely conservative
and thoroughly up-to-date. She ]
must buy books, subscribe for maya
zines, attend summer schools, keep
up her pedagogical studies, select the
wheat from the chaff in educational {
discussions, adapt university theories I
common school conditions and ap~ I
ply psychological principles to the S
details Of every day work. a