The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-10-08
HAND GIVES ADVICE
TO State EDUCATORS
URGES THAT WORK NOT
LAG THIS YEAR.
TEACHERS DUTY
At Beginning of Session, He Urges
That All Teachers Do the Best
Work of Which Capable.

III the teachers in Anderson County
VIII read this letter and ponder over
its contents" said j. B. FELTON,, coup-
ty superintendent Of education, they
Will DE greatly benefited and will be
able to discharge their duties more
faithfully"
The letter 10 which Mr.. FELTON, re-
fers was written by William H. Hand,
Of Columbia, in his capacity of State
Inspector of High Schools, and says:
Dear Fellow Worker: The high
schools throughout the State are
about to enter upon their years work.
l hope for you the best of which you
are capable, the unstinted support of
your patrons, the responsive efforts of
your pupils and the warm cooperation
| or your teachers, / would not pre-
| sume to give advice but / beg the
privilege OF Offering you encourage
ment and support In what YOU under
take. Here are few things 1t might
be well to keep in mind.
Before any successful teaching
Can De done the teacher must get a
personal hold upon his pupils and his
patrons. Wholesome companionship
between teacher and pupil and re-
spected friendship between teacher
| and patron foreshadow success. Strive
to know your pupils in their daily life.
in their sports and In their day.
| dreams. You need to study, but You
must not be hermit
| Give vnnT nuniIo rlapfx,
and see that they do it, hut do not
overload them. A few subjects mas
tered are better than many subjects
SKINNED over. Five subjects are
| enough for any high school class. The
best schools are coming to regard
four major subjects enough. Skim
ming over work is demoralizing. Some
OF the subjects which seem to lend
themselves especially to skimming arc
history, literature. physical geography
! and even Latin. Some teachers will
run through a book of the Gallo war
| In half the time 1t takes other teach
ers but the latter will gst twice as
much out Of the book Tarrs physical
geography has in It ample work for
ten months with daily recitations, yet
few teachers are unable to find
enough in 1t for more than three reci-
tations week for nine months. Do
not work for units. Twelve units In a
| three year conIso sEs enough.
Preserve a rational balance be-
| tween the humanities and the
sciences. Five or six recitations q day
In the languages and but one or two In
/ the sciences do not suggest q we'll
planned course. Manuel training Is as
necessary to a good education. as mere
academic training. This work .is grad.
ually growing in this State.
There are a few things every high
school pupil ought to be able to do:
TO spell d0centIy the words making
his vocabulary, to write a legibIe
| hand. to read with some expression
to speak and write everyday English
creditably to make simple arithmetAcaI
! calculations neatly and accurately
and to have some knowledge of the
history and geography OF his own
counry. Unttir pupil can do these
things 1t seems unwise to put him to
other tasks. n
"The school studies are impol .ant,
but there are more important things
than these. Character, building comes
first. Manly and womanly virtues
come ahead OF academic studies.
Good citizens are needed more than
L 0aod :