| Show dl u 1 davis county school items r V LEO J MUIR editor MISS LYLE WIMMER associate editor MISS MAGGIE LAYTON associate editor superintendents observations arborday arbor day was generally observed by the schools A great many of the trees plant planted ed on school grounds hero here to fore have died of de neglect school boards should see to t it that all trees planted on school property be kept alive and growing the commercial club of farm agton in planted two evergreen trees on the school lot we are pleased to note the in wrest this club is taking in the schools we invite the attention of the other two similar organizations in the county to the school environments in their respect respective ivo jurisdictions help your school and you boost your town the interest in exhibit work in some of the schools is at a low ebb while in others it is at f full till flow if you been saving za work start now all to large a number of the teachers sent in their criticism of the course of study at this writing we vo have offered offered to pupils a prize for the most acceptable design 0 for the outside cover of the commencement program contributed articles dear editors I 1 have been much interested in the aduca dional department of tho the clipper and my only reason for not adding my mi might ht before is my ill inability to express my thoughts in good Ency english lish as I 1 would like to then the thou thought 0 ht comes to me why cant this department help to educate those who cannot attend school cowand now and did not have the opportunity when they were at the school age n we know the en english lish ian language aage is shamefully abused by older people particularly through not knowin oving ra how to use it properly you could help us wonderfully editors if you would criticise criticism critic ise our little articles and point out the he grammatical errors you find in n t them hem would this bo be askill asking 0 too 00 oo much perhaps it would but I 1 am sure it would be appreciated oh that the children and the young youn men inea and women of today aoud oud appreciate the advantages of if education they have it I 1 they kne knew v as we do the inconvenience that tho the lack back of an lion cioll imposes they would put lit for li ip gecler realer efforts than they io do now to improve the chances chanced that are given them what joy it must bring to the hearts of the teachers to know they are able to impart knowledge to the children under their care are that they will be of untold value to them in after years know knowledge knowledg led 0 o that will help to make their lives fuller and more complete I 1 feel that no one save the parents themselves has so great an influence over the child as the teacher the parent their work must be seasoned with a spirit of love if they would be successful how Ilow much a word or even a look will do to raise or crush the spirit of a child we often have examples of this among our children one may come com e home with a happy smile on his fa face ce and tell oi of some words of praise his teacher has given him while another will tell with an entirely different expression on his face how the teacher has told him how low stupid he is and that there is no chance of his being promoted e etc tc no doubt the child could have been more studious and could have taken more interest in his studies but what little ambition he did have was crushed out by those few words would that we were svere all as quick to praise as to censure I 1 once heard a teacher say 1 I wish I 1 had some other way of earning my living beside bothering n with these children I 1 hate children any way and on every hand could be heard the same words expressed about the teacher c love clove begets love and the teacher who loves his work is sure to be loved in return his words may be hard and discouraging 0 in 0 a at t times but let this thought in k give give you courage 0 as it does the parents in after years your labors will be ap precia ted and tho the children will rise up and call you blessed could the editors give the names of some soine good books for boys books that would influence them in a moral mora 1 I social and religious way hope bisci discipline p line As A moral factor all thoughtful ul people look with solicitude on the institutions of an educational character in order to discover what means it if any there be can remain for education tho the school proposes at first this object to teach the pupil a knowledg knowledge e of man and nature in short to initiate him into the realm of truth certainly truth is divine in so far as a s real truth is taught c in the school etisa it is a p positive Os 1 t i ve auxiliary to higher morals order is the first law even of heaven He iven the government of human beings in a community is a training trai nil for them in the forms of social life the school must strictly enforce a code of laws the so called discipline of the school is itself a training in habits essential to life in a social whole and hence is itself moral training one may distinguish moral duties or habits which ought to be taught 0 to youth into two classes a mechanical virtues in which the youth exercises a small amount of moral choice and obeys a rule prescribed for him in this lowest species of moral discipline the you youth th learns self denial and self control and not much besides b social or moral duties those which 0 govern the relation of man to man in this forra form of moral discipline the yo youth ith learn to obey principle bakir than the immediate will of nother mother in the se school hool we note first tho the moral effect of the requirement of implicit obedience a require ment necessary within the school for its successful administration the discipline in obedience in its strict form such as it is found in the schoolroom has four applications which rema remain in i valid under all conditions of society a obedience towards parents b towards employers overseers and supervisors as regards re ards tho the details of work c towards toi var ds tho the government in its legally constituted authority d towards the divine will avill however revealed in each of these four forms there is and always remains a sphere of I 1 greater or less extent within which implicit obedience is on ones es duty obedience as a habit to what is by an authority is obviously a training that fits oue one for citizenship and religion the pillars on which school education rest are behavior bolia vior and scholarship deportment of behavior comes first tho the first re of tho the school is order each pupil must bo be taught to conform his behavior to the general standard and repress all that interferes with the function of tho the school the pupil is taught caught punctual ity re regularity flarity and silence he must be at school in time punctuality does not end with ge getting tt in g to school but while in school it is is of equal importance regularity is punctuality reduced er to a system conformity to the requirements of time in a particular instance is punctuality pun emual made general it becomes regularity combination Con Cou in school rests on these two virtues they are the most elementary of the moral code oaly by obedience to these abstract external laws of time and place may we achieve a social combination complete enough to supply our physical wants and necessities silence is the third of these mechanical auti duties i e s it is the soil in which thou thought 0 bt 0 grows rows the pupil is therefore taught C habits of silence to restrain his natural impulse to prate and chatter he is tau taught ca ht to hold back the mind from utterance of the immediate impulse this silence in the r schoolroom chool is necessary in order that there may be no distraction of the attention of others from their work and it is a direct discipline in the art of combining D the diffused and feeble efforts effort s of the pupil himself these mechanical duties constitute an elementary training in morals without which it itis is tex exceedingly cee difficult tu to build any superstructure of moral character whatever moral education t therefore he defor must begin in merely mechanical obedience and de delope 10 gradually out of this stage 0 towards that of individual responsibility D F smith |
