| Show thinks few rules best if it were not for the government gover u of the pupils in the school room and on the play CD ground how delightfully pleasant would be the vocation of teaching do only to hear and explain the les sons ills and to see the young 0 minds ex expanding daily taking in truths and lessons which will tit them for lifes duties and cares thereby enriching and obling enabling en f future k generations enc rations but alas there is more than this here is a room full full thirty or forty children no two aliko alike they come from different homes and unlike environment viron ment some are accustomed to home bome training 0 and discipline others have had none some are obedient and studious and others do not know what obedience en comeans means so accustomed are they to having 0 their own way others are petted and b humored u mored and allowed to do just a as they please without any lo io whatever bat ever and hure here is the teacher and all these stran strange ZD e eager little faces lookin looking rl into hers and ex expecting P acting k what were she not accustomed to handling t the he young 01 and able to read their thoughts and hearts slew sh e would shrink from her difficult task but no she quietly and firmly goes to work all the time she is arranging C n and hearing classes she is studying C faces so that she sha may know how to reach their hearts for without gaining their affection she can do nothing 0 when the echo of the last lingering ng footsteps have died away on oil the still air and she closes her school door do you think her task is done no she is studying jamie her bayword boy or john who is so disobedient or mary who is so idle and thus she is wondering 0 and pondering erin how sho she can stimulate and arouse their ambitions so chef ina may y become mure studious and obedient I 1 have found from tho capori once of many years teaching that it is best to have but few rules but that these must implicitly be obeyed that you can not use nse the same punishment for every child but by studying each one individually you yon can r readily dily se set 0 what will be best adapt adapted e to each and which will prove most successful cess ceis ful that method which will arouse pride ambition and love of study with a desire for self government overn ment will produce the best results but all are not amenity to this course some children are naturally lawless and ungovernable they have mind enough betlack self control and concentration these are the difficult ones to teach the pro bin beems s of th the sel ool for fo r the knowledge of what they may bo be 6 conic come iu in the liture future f tile the teacher must spend much energy thought yes and prayer upon them wo we often find these powers latent therefore wo we see tho the necessity of laying a good foundation that each child may properly understand what con statutes utes pure true womanhood iod auld anu and act datiz citizenship M mrs rs t ann annie i e G granger ranger |
