The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-12-01
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The work OF the students OF the Fra
ger Fitting School has been Of the best
during the present term. Many of the
boys having shown marked Improve
ment In their methods OF study and
consequently much better results have
been attained.
From an opening enrolment Of
nearly sixty last year, the school
opened this year 18th less than forty,
but owing to the corresponding small
tclasses the personal affection given
the individual student has been In
Icreased. resulting in great benefit to
those who now attend the classes.
Hardness has been greatly lessened
and attendance Is more regular. The
patrons OF the gchool are realizing
more and more that not day must be
lost if their boy Is to receive the
proper instruction.
| When a boy is allowed to niisb o day
he rarely prepares the next days les
son, thinking the excuse, az didn't
know where the lesson was" perfectly
adequate and feeling much grieyed
and ulistfeated If kept In for his fall
nre to get his iesssons.
/ Many OF the parents have, an we say,
{realized this and yet there are some
/ who still seem to think just one day,
Zone little day, can not matter. To these
1--we would address the following lines:
"A boy in bis school work Is not only
getting an education, he Is forming
habits and buiiding character. First,
I've would take up the effects OF ab-
sence on his education. While going
to school the boy is forging o chain,
/ each day q link. It is the chain npon
which his destiny must hang. There
fore have It strong. 4.
or what good are good strong, SOL
idly welded links IL one link, Just one
link, In their midst Is made of weak
iron but poorly welded, lacking tho
flux OF q teachers care. The chain 81
only as strong as its weakest link.
What matter though the weak link be
galvanized over by "crammingn for
the examination and escape the scril-
tiny OF the teacher, Will not come
strain surely open the defective link.
/ There will be. the weak link always
ready To part 1T the moment OF extra
| strain, the very time of all when &C
jsIauld hold firm and fast. W
i Then comes the effect on habit. The
boy beginning to ee shipshod in his
methods. he tries to find more ex-
1cuses for absence from school. He
i finds the next days, lesson harder es
| he missed the principles taughtrin the
i lesson missed lie seeks Il, dodge the
heavier burden by another absence.
imasihg Ills load all the heavier. He
i gets discouraged In the work ana his
4 parent thinks the teacher ia sfiot ex-
| planning the lessons to the boy It is
4 fair to the rest OF the class to stot,
and consume their time .expiaining
what they alrsaias- Itno@ ta Aoy s.sa
would asso have known had he been 60
Ischoot every day? Some parents seem
ITO lose sight of the fact that there are
3other boys In The teachers care whose
right are to be safeguarded, to Hleaye
the ninety and nine for one lost sheep?
is religious method not educational.
4 Moreover absence cultiPateS d tend
aenSy 10 play h0okey,p The boy who
i Is often allowed to stay at ffi1Uif1Taiu IN
always the one who "lays OUT as the
boys express ie. ! sJ 4sl !.
4 So accustomed are the teachers to
his absence and written excuse from
parents that his tale OF forgotten ex-
cuse gets easy efsdence and thus lax
regard for truth In cultivated. and
the boy ends the year, II he lost that
long, q failure. b
| Think OF the coi,saquenee on char.
ncter. Habits make character. 81
Il A boy who Tor triyiai excrses 10 al
lowed to remain at home when ne
should be at school will employ such
excuses for his faflure all through life.
He may be- regular at his fob for
j he'd lose &c other Wisa but III he
should work for himself he wilr pro-
crasinate and let things 90 undone
according to the habits Of hiH youth
which were fostered hy the very mar
snts who ioyed him most. : s. 8 q .s !.
We WIN not stop to, dwell on how
In the attempt to cover the weak
places, o boy hieB To-. deceive his
Teacher and so cultivate q tendeaCv
toward falsekood but, this Ii the srs
Isyithbie outcome lcf Lsiissed dsSs 81
inchOpL TIE weak place - there Aiil
the effort to hide st q boySs reRard fois
fabsolute truth 10 beslnirched.
f. +. Es5t us appeal TO ali parents 10 assist
the teachers everywhere byilnyiue tie
ib0yB &C school every day for, only fliiss
lean the better grade OF work be dorie.
Only with the full cO-operation s5f
lpareflts can the best recruits be ae-
ieoffplfshed. q 81 IS
Because your boy does not get along
id0nt blame the teacher. Thini OF TIE
ln4E.A.. llnea So. - z. 49, a, :. - -
the sklae teacher ana then ssS IL y0ls
Iase helped the teacher ali f6S can.
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