Show I I Education C Is ff Measured i By DY a By y Results Remits It Brings Educator Dr R It t G 0 Boone the editor of Education Education tion published In tn New York spoke yes es at the university before the senior normal class The he doctor said that there are three great fully equipped normal norma schools In the United States of these one Is west o of the Mississippi The one said the doctor In which we are now But if this normal school is great It is not because of or the superior equipments or faculty but because of pf the superior prod product product product which it Jt turns out What you are arem my m young oUng friends and what you ou shall do will determine the greatness of the normal school There are re three fundamental qualities which make for the preparation of the good teacher First of ot these is the habit of thinking straight of If acknowledging that a thing is true not because ll ti desire it to be true but because It is so A com corn common cornmon mon defect in teachers Is that they do donot o not know how to think logically critical ly and analytically and impersonally They always have opinions Beliefs Hons judgments and convictions but are not always gifted with the power to think in an unbiased manner It is 18 therefore good that they the should have some course In mathematics or in the laboratory as part of ot their training Teachers must have opinions but must ever be ready read to throw them thom aside when something better Is shown They must have haye N method m thod but method will be a bar to their progress if they cannot give It up Any downright conviction is a bar to thinking squarely and acting honestly in the light of ot new n w knowledge knowl ge Must Be Alert The second qualification for the teach teacher er is the habit of being b wideawake to things the quality of mental alertness the desire to enjoy to Interpret and to explain We Ve might forgive the eastern teacher who know about tion but not the western teacher who wh fails Tails to learn of it Jt when presented preE to his notice This interest in things should give She to the teacher a hunger to explain so that not lot anything any thins happens which Is of In a certain school In the east one teacher turns out twice as many eighth grade rade graduates to togo togo togo go on Into the high school as any other eighth grade teacher in that city cit Her boys and girls may ma not have hae known more things than the students of other teachers but they were distinguished in this they wanted d to know When a child ehUd actually desires to do a thing thin it can be done In very little time Ume When 11 en the th Internal urgency of or the childs interests takes the place plat e the external urgency of the teacher all the work of the schools which we now non do in ten months could be done in I three It is what the child wants to do dG that counts for forRO so much Effort and Product The third necessary quality In the teacher is tho the ability to know how to converge these two habits upon up the th work of the school room To do this make every days work in the school a B result of or careful serious thoughtful t and pur purposeful purposeful criticism Dont do anything to today today today day merely mere because be ause you ou did it so yes yesterday yesterday What need Is la there for tor example of teaching writing to a child before he has need to t express ss himself in writing or of ot teaching spelling seiling s before he needs to use the dictionary When a man Is about to build a bridge he knows in advance what the finished product is to be He knows what it is that he is about to do dob but b t when we undertake to teach do we know what our finished product is to be and what It Is 15 that we are trying to do doThe d doThe The agriculturist knows why he be plows deep or shallow why he uses this fer ter fertilizer or that but do we know why we teach arithmetic grammar geography Is IsIt IsIt Isit It for the sake of or proficiency in these branches Not at all None of or these things is really esSE e n ial to the finished product which we are trying tr to turn out that is simply strong resourceful reso useful citizens General Grant declared that the th best educated man lie he had ever met mot was i LI Ll Hung Chang Chan who knew nothing of most of ot the things which we teach In schools One of It the best educated men I ever saw could not write nor work lems on paper but he could do things and antI was wise strong and capable He Could dould think straight and had wide Interests and skill In accomplishing results He lie was educated but not in the th way wa of he the schools He was not ignorant nt Josh Billings used to say sa that It Is bet better better better ter hot to know so many things than titan to know so many man that aint so Shakespeare Is Ia said to have used approximately words Nearly Near all of or us can understand well enough at least two words worth out of three In his h s pages but how many can we use usenet not net not not 2000 and some use no more than 1000 words Education is a centrifugal not nota a cent process What goes out Is what signifies les that which goes out of the mouth a aman aman aman man or him Mm Education is test tested t tested st sted ed by what a man does what he gives what he shares what he loses and not by what he gets The mere accumulation of or words and experiences in the childs life is not necessarily education Not till he has turned his knowledge about used expressed and applied it Is II It really anything to him Education Is of no real value except as tc It lt works work out in some form of efficiency |