Show Miscella miscellany ns department THE DO NOTS I 1 LEARNED do not allow the class to read in turn do D 0 not interrupt the pupils reading to make corrections do not allow the raising of hands bands while the pupil is reading do not permit unimportant criticisms as eft ef t ont a put in the but notice faults in the essentials senti als in expression distinct ness pron do not ask the children to read to a period or until they make an error lest interest of thought thou glit give place to the mechanism of reading do not read a passage 7 that the pupil is to read for lie he must learn to read not from imitation but from his own ideas of the sense to bo be expressed do not say anything to make a pupil feel ill at case in the presence of his class or of his teacher are we really trying to turn out fifty thousand clothes pins of precisely the same pattern in the schools or are we trying to make of each boy and girl the best that can be made and to encourage as we can the particular ta genius of each separate child edward everette Eve rotte hales we rise by things that areneathe are neath our feet by what we have mastered of good 0 od and gain by the pride deposed and tile the passion slain and the vanquished ills that wo hourly meet holland the work finished do not fear though at his coming may le be found the stone unset yet for thy faith beyond the skies thino thine own shall be bb the longed lon C ed for prize he best who calls from labor now to rest to build no more little li t atje dot 1 I guess I 1 f t fg Knowlton FT arno R jr jf at as man 1 mother 1 I hope so little dot desm I 1 ii drew a fruit cake on my slate and dick guessed it was a oyster he knew it was something to cat anyhow he be sel the mother tenth in your class why I 1 always used to be firstin first in mine but mother my schoolmates are not nearly so stupid as yours truth little girl iu in ath after writing the names of all the animals she could think of whose coat became thicker in winter added 1 but the teacher s pants are getting gettin thinner goethe says that if you alart alar t an all oak in a flower vase either the oak must wither or the vase crack some men go for saving the vase too many nowadays now a days have that anxiety the puritans would have ibave let it crack so say 1 I if there is anything that cannot boar bear treo free thought let it crack there is a class among us so conservative serva tive that they are afraid the roof will come down if the cobwebs are swept off As douglas 7 gerald says they can never fully relish tile new moon out of respect for that venerable institution the old one |