Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-11-17
WHAT THE HOME CAN Do FOR
THE SCHOOL
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Bible is the best and will remain the
best textbook of English that can be
fond. There is no one thing that
will educate so soundly little child
as hearing daily read the English OF
the English Bible"
The conversation in the home may
be made to be very helpful to child
in his School work.
With a large map of the world
hung on the Dining room wal, much
of the conversation at the table can
be helpful to the child studying
Geography and History. A Globe
is also useful The frequent use of
a good dictionary in the home is al
most indispensable.
When we visit the schools we see
every room crowded and we wonder
how the teachers stand the nervous
strain they are under. We can see
why they have so little time for in
dividual work, and we see the necessi-
ty of doing all we can at home to
supplement their work.
At this time all over the Nation
there is an inadequate supply OF
trained teachers. The commissioner
y
sent out an appeal to all former
normal graduates to urge high school
students to take up Normal training.
Unless more application for en-
trance where received, one of the two
State Normal must close its doors.
In some country districts in other
States grammar school graduates
were engaged to teach. These con-
ditions are alarming. We must have
good teachers, and in order to keep
the good ones we have and others of
the same class, we must cooperate
with them to secure better teaching
conditions, help them to get living
wage and give them our support in
all their difficulties.
John r. Mott in speaking to a
group of young men said if they
would give him two hours of each
day, he could make of them what
they wanted to be, but those hours
had to be certain hours. The last
hour before going to sleep and the
first after waking. The thought one
has just before retiring are heh in
the subconscious mind during sleep.
If the thoughts of the first hour
after waking are cheerful thoughts,
thoughts of a successful day and its
opportunities, the day will bring to
us what we expect. Those two hours
of our children's day are in the hands
of the parents.
Putting aside the question of ply.
sical and normal education itself
depends for it's best interests largely
upon parents. For mental activity
starts from feeling and all the higher
thoughts that come to us as the re-
suit of knowledge have their springs
deep down in our emotional life.
Mr.. Taft, the sculptor, in his lee
ture here told a story which illus
trtaes this point. A young French
lad came to this country and found
employment in the mines, He had
no opportunity to enjoy the sunlight
except on Sundays.
A night school teacher discovered
in him an embouis artist. She brot
the boy to Mr.. Taft. At that time
Mr.. Taft was doing work for the
Worlds Fair at Chicago and had
forty men helping him. He sent
word to the young French miner that
if he would come to Chicago and help
him with the work for the Fair and
use his eyes, perhaps he would learn
something of the Art. The boy
went, carried water, made plaster
paris and learned much. He became
a fine sculptor. The mother of the
boy, although an uneducated woman
was a great lover of the beautiful
and hoping some one of her boys
might become an artist had given to
each one of them the name of a
great artist. This young man was
named after Leonardo Di Vinci.
From his mother he received his in
spiration. The kind of men and
women our children will make, de-
pends largely upon the inspirations
we give them.
ITO every man there openeth
A Way and Ways and Way,
And the high soul climbs the High
Way
And the low soul gropes the Low.
And in between, on the misty flats
The rest drift to and fro.
To every man there openeth
A High Way and Low,
And every man decideth
The Way his Soul shall CO."
If their sympathies and their
minds have been rightly trained in
children when they become men and
women, our children will choose the
High Way and the pictures which we
have painted on the imaginary can
vas will be true to life,
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