Cowley County Teacher du lieu suivant : Winfield, Kansas • 1

The Cfi 9 teacher. NO. 1. WIN FIELD, KANSAS, OCTOBER 8, 1879. VOL.

I. EDUCATIONAL NOTES. THE SCHOOL HOUSE. If Parents who have comfortable houses ft will frequently allow their children to attend school where everything is want edge unless you can see that he is getting power. ull half of a teacher's success is gained when he can make his pupils interested, and interest comes in proportion to the knowledge and power that they have, not to what you to which they indifferently give assent when asked.

Take a history class. Teacher Lays: "What year was America discov ing to advance the interests of educa tion, to say nothing of civilization. Let us mention a few. For fifty children, there should be a house with school-room, and comfortable sittings for the children, and it will be profitable also to provide a gallery or class-room in which a monitor may aid ered, John?" John doesn't know, and 1 1 1 the pupil. ry for the efficient conduct of the school should be furnished.

1. The privy building, or closet, should be masked from view and its approaches equally so. 2. There should be little or no exposure to mud or wet weather in reaching it. 3.

There should be no unpleasant sighfor odor perceptible. 4. The apartment should be well 5. It should be kept entirely free from cuttings, pencilings, or markings, and scrupulously clean. 6.

There should be, at least, two privies attached to each mixed school, and they should so separated that neither in approaching nor occupying them, can there be either sight or sound observed, in passing, or from one to the other This cannot be effected by a mere partition; nothing can secure the object but considerable distance, or extra heavy brick or stone walls resting on the ground. It is a serious error ever to omit this Y. School Jour, A HINT TO YOUNG TEACHERS. "It's only a spring opening, ma," exclaimed a school boy, as he exhibited his torn trousers after a leap over a picket fence. "Sammy, my boy, what is longitude?" "A clothes-line." 'Trove it, sonny." "Because it stretches from pole to pole." In a certain Massachusetts normal school the word "eucharist" was given out not long ago to be spelled and defined.

More than three-fourths of the young ladies wrote, "euchreist, a person who plays euchre." English gentlemen's sons are often taught to do plain needlework, and the knowledge is found to come in very handy in after-life, especially if they emigrate. Lord Sherborne knits beautiful shirts, as fine as any that Shetland produces. Indiana. Last year nearly 7,000 applicants were refused licenses as school teachers in the State. The average per diem of the teachers in townships for 1878 was $1.89, but few are employed for more than four months.

The av consequently doesn't care, he would care if he knew, so he stands and says nothing. Teacher says: "Well, do you think it was in fourteen ninety two?" making long pauses in the number to give John a chance to come in and finish it, which he won't do for he well knows the teacher will say it all, and say it right, if he gives him time enough. Then John assents. Teacher says: "Oh, my history class is such a stupid class. I try to make it interesting.

I tell them all I can about it." But, my dear teachers, it is when your pupils can tell you about it that they are interested, when For one hundred children, there should be a house with two-class-rooms with comfortable sittings (one for an (elementary and one for an advanced division), and trustees are recommended to provide a gallery, also to employ a monitor. I For one hundred and fifty children, a house having one gallery and two good class-rooms with comfortable sittings, or a house having a gallery and two apartments, one for an elementary, and one for an advanced department, with a teacher and tv assistants. If one commodious building cannot be secured, two houses may be provided in different parts of the district, with a 4 teacher and assistant in each. I Trustees and school hoards should jpay attention to the following particu they can do things, when they exercise power, that they are happy and pleased. If you want them interested make them do all you can.

Take the little ones of the class and see the snapping of fingers and eyes, and the unbounded enthusiasm of those who can read A cat and the comparative indifference of those who can not. You never told them anything that began to set them in such a tickle as when tb ey could tell you. The pleasure of the power of doing In conducting a recitation, make it one of the first rules, or principles, not to do anything that a pupil can or ought to do himself. In the arithmetic class John's example doesn't come out right. You tell him to go over it again and find his mistake, and he looks at you in surprise; the last teacher always did that for him, while the rest of the class stood and looked on, or off, as the case something themselves is a strong motive to learning to do itfOre.

And so I say, Don't do anything in a recitation that a pupil can or ought to do for himself. Educational Weekly. POPULAR EDUCATION. might be. He looks through it; and very likely says he can't find any mis lars in the erection of school houses, iviz: I 1.

The school house should be but one story high, in rural sections, 2. A separate room should be provided for every fifty pupils enrolled in the school. By means of sliding doors, these separate rooms could be thrown i into one on special occasions. I 3. Provision should be made for one or more gallery or class-rooms in every I school according to its size as heretofore prescribed.

4. Separate entrances with outer porches to the school house, or room, for boys and girls, should invariably be provided, where the number of pupils A is over fifty. 1 5. The entrance porches should be take; then use your wits and tact and make him. It saves time to find it for erage teacher receives less than $144 per annum.

Nearly twenty-five per cent, of the experienced teachers leave the profession every year because they can make more money in other kinds of work. The average cost of the school houses of the State, including those of cities and towns is about $1,160. The school law of this State provides that "if a parent, guardian or other person visit a school and upbraid or insult a teacher in the presence of the school, the offender shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $25. There are in the State 9,545 school houses, of which 89 are built of stone, 1,724 of brick, 7,608 of frame and 124 of the primitive log. The valuation of the school property is $11,536,647.30.

Good Salaries and Good Teachers. The Tribune says no one should teach in the schools who has not enthusiasm for her work, a marked, natural capacity for it, and a thorough training. But so long as prices are resolutely kept down and constantly reduced, there is no temptation to any one to spend years in sincere and careful preparation, or the few hours out of school in the necessary study that prevents intellectual rust. Why should time and money be given to the getting ready for a work which gives only the simplest daily bread and raiment, and which, after a life of earnest devotion, leaves the worker's old to a miserable dependence, or to actual suffering for the physical needs of existence? If school boards would spend the time' which they now occupy in trying to reduce salaries in endeavoring to get better teachers, the next generation would profit incalculably. Make the severest requirements of teachers, relentlessly dismiss all who are half-competent, and when you get good ones pay them an honest wages.

external to tne sc.nooi nouse. 6. The external doors of the school house should open outwards, 7. The school-rooms must be well him? Well, the time saved is used to no good and you cannot better employ time than in teaching a pupil to help himself. So in stating and explaining an a reasonable amount of fullness and clearness.

Don't have him say, "I add this, and subtract that, and get something else," simply pointing to the numbers as he goes along, assuming that you are able to read them for yourself, and tell what they stand for, as well as he can. When he gets through you say, do you? "Yes, you added the amount gained and the price of the land and subtracted what he owed and the remainder was what he had left," to which he course. Don't use and express your knowledge of his example; require him to use his own. His assent to your statements is no proof, hardly an indication, that he has any knowledge of his own, that you The cause of popular education is now spreading all over the earth's surface, with rapid strides. Appeals come over the great waters from all lands and peoples, for American plans and systems, for American statistics, and practical results; even the oldest and most enlightened nations of the world are sending their commissioned agents, from time to time to watch the progress of our institutions, and to glean and gather.

Notwithstanding our just pride in American plans of education, our own citizens evince too little interest in the cause. It is one thing to feel an interest, and a totally different thing to slww it. The first is negative, and almost useless; the other positive, such as encourages, sustains, gives life and animation. The teacher needs this animating influence; the directors of education value the appproving smiles of an intelligent constituency; and our children are enlivened by visible sympathy. Success in public, as in private, is not forwarded by a sympathy still and inert, but rather by manifestations of it-Edward Shippen, Philadelphia, The worst thing you can put on a farm is a mortgage.

I 8. The light should be admitted to i the school and class-room behind or at I the left of the children, and either from the East or North, but in no case should Uhe children face it. 9. The window sashes should be made ito move up and down on pulleys, and the sills should be about four feet above the floor. 10.

Each school house should be pro iVided with a bell. have really taught him anything. 11. If the house be brick, care should be taken to make the walls hollow, but air-tight, otherwise the walls will be Knowledge is power not merely gives power; it is power to have, to grasp, to conceive, to think, and as a rule to tell. Knowledge is a power to do something, to say something, and while it is true that knowledge may be given but power must be educated, still don't believe that you are giving your pupil knowl I damp inside.

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