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I propose, however, devoting one chapter now, to presenting a number of miscellaneous cheap cedar point tickets cases, without any attempt to arrange them. Another case that more often happens, cheap cedar point tickets is, where one is actively and even intentionally bad, and is seated next to an innocent but perhaps thoughtless boy, and contrives to keep him always in difficulty. Get him to co-operate with you in any thing, and he will feel how much pleasanter it is to co-operate, than to thwart and oppose; and by judicious measures of this kind, cheap cedar point tickets almost any boy may be brought over to your side. MORAL DISCIPLINE.
The disposition to make improvements and changes may however be too great. ("Yes sir. He coldly, and with uncompromising dignity, went on the excitement in the class increased, and what is called a college rebellion, with all its disastrous consequences to the infatuated rebels, ensued. It requires as much mental effort to consider and decide sometimes whether I ought to allow a pupil to leave his seat, as it would to decide a much more important question; therefore I do not like our plan, and I have another to cheap cedar point tickets propose. Excuses which are often made for disobedience. Interesting the scholars in the good order of the school. "Do you like frank, open dealing, James?" James hesitated a moment, and then answered faintly, "Yes sir. Reports about the desks.
He made the plan perfectly clear to them, by taking a particular noun, and running it cheap cedar point tickets through the table, showing what should be written opposite to the word, in all the columns; and then dismissed them. It is far better to allure them, by showing them the pleasures of doing right. " "Proposed, that we be allowed to walk upon the common cheap cedar point tickets in the recesses. _Emily. Example; arrangement of the Epistles in the New Testament. Of course, I shall have no punishment for it; but it will very much assist you to watch yourselves, if you expect to make a report at the end of cheap cedar point tickets the forenoon. " One or two more took their seats while these things were saying. It will be incorporated, as it were, into their very minds, and they cannot afterwards be deprived of it. "But then it is _very early_," you say.
Do let's run _Charles. The rest of the class are waiting, and having nothing good to do, the temptation is almost irresistible to do something bad. On the other hand, if _instruction_ is all that is aimed at, and _recitation_, (by which I mean, as above explained, such an examination of individuals as is necessary to ascertain that they have faithfully performed the tasks assigned,) is neglected, the exercise soon becomes not much more than a lecture, to which those, and those only, will attend, who please. (7. Many a teacher hardens and stupefies the moral sense of his pupils, by the harsh and rough exposures, to which he drags out the private feelings of the heart. I wish it to be understood that it was not _my_ plan, but _theirs_, and cheap cedar point tickets that cheap cedar point tickets I am at any time willing to have the study card down once in half an hour, whenever a majority of the scholars, voting by ballot, desire it. " "Proposed that we have locks upon our desks. " James does not know what to say.
His pleasure, and the source of it. It attached a new thread to the ball, and then went up, drawing the ball with it. By this means, you soon remember where every thing belongs, and you can put away your things much cheap cedar point tickets more easily every night, than if you had every night to arrange them in a new way.
The method can, however, go into full effect, only where there are several pupils who have made considerable advances in mental cultivation. As individuals are called upon, also, to express their ideas _verbally_, they soon acquire by practice, the power of expressing their ideas with clearness and force, and communicating with ease and confidence the knowledge they possess. In such a cheap cedar point tickets case, the pupils cheap cedar point tickets might, if thought expedient, again be requested to rise, for the purpose of asking some other questions, with reference to ascertaining whether they had spoken most in the former or latter part of the forenoon. Mental Analysis. Now this is wrong. " "Besides," continues the teacher, looking pleasantly, however, while he says it, "if I knew, I think I ought not to tell you. cheap cedar point tickets
' The next began, 'It is my week to write composition, but I do not know what to say. It is not necessary that you should state a fact altogether new and unheard of, but if you tell me its color, or some of the uses to which it is applied, you will be complying with my request. If for example a teacher should say to you in your class, "As soon as you have performed a certain work you may bring it to me,"--you would in bringing it, be acting under her _direction_ and would cheap cedar point tickets consequently do right. After so much haste, she is unfitted for attending properly to the duties of the school, until a considerable time after her arrival. 3. A master of a district school was walking through the room, with a large rule in his hands, and as he came up behind two small boys, he observed that they were playing with some papers. Mental Analysis. VI. Another has some royal road to learning, and though he is trammeled and held down by what he calls the ignorance and stupidity of his Trustees or his School Committee, yet if he could fairly put his principles and methods to the test, he is certain of advancing the science of Education half a century at least, at a single leap. The nut itself, he thought, ought to hang alone on the branches, without any prickly covering,--just as apples do. Having, perhaps, never even heard a class recite before, he takes a short walk some winter morning, and suddenly finds himself instated at the desk,--his cheap cedar point tickets fifty scholars all around, looking him in the face, all waiting to be employed.
It is hard enough for any one to witness their bad conduct, with a spirit unruffled and undisturbed, cheap cedar point tickets but for their teacher, it is perhaps impossible. " "Well, cheap cedar point tickets then, you see, that although she may have done wrong to take your seat, it is not in that point of view, that you bring it into court. The teacher will thus be acting with the consent of his employers, in almost any part of our country, in endeavoring to influence his pupils to perform moral duties, not merely from worldly motives, nor from mere abstract principles of right and wrong, but _from regard to the authority of God_. Let them understand that becoming a Christian is _beginning_ a work, not _finishing_ it. Are you willing to do it?" "Yes sir;" say the boys. Let the pupil see that you are aiming to secure it, and that the pleasure which you expect that they will receive, is that of firmly and patiently encountering and overcoming difficulty; of penetrating, by steady and persevering effort, into regions, from which the idle and the inefficient are debarred; and that it is your province to lead them forward, not to carry them. You pass a boy in the street, wheeling a heavy load, in a barrow; now simply stop to look at him, with a countenance which says, "that is a heavy load; I should not think that boy could wheel it;" and how quick will your look give fresh strength and vigor to his efforts.
) By publishing them in periodicals devoted to education. It was easily settled in the morning, for they had had time to get calm, and were, after sleeping away their anger, rather ashamed of the whole affair, and very desirous to have it forgotten. "Are there any other scholars in the school who think it would be well for them to join this class?" In answer to this question probably some new scholars might perhaps rise, or some hitherto belonging to other classes, who might be of suitable age and qualifications to be transferred. _ One dollar. That the teacher may be left uninterrupted, to attend to one thing at a time. Vernon School. There is but one rule of this school.
If they bring it to you one by one, you have to answer it over and over again, whereas, when it is brought to the class, one explanation answers for all. The community are agreed, too, in the belief of _the immortality of the soul_. When the teacher should refuse to answer them. In such cases as this, it is very desirable that the answers cheap cedar point tickets should be general, so that throughout the school, there should be a spirited interest in the questions and replies. He should work, with what cheap cedar point tickets an artist calls boldness and freedom of touch. And even then I should fail of securing my object, unless you had the disposition to do your duty.
Through this wrapper, all questions are asked, all complaints entered, all proposals made. At one time, he may explain and illustrate some important truth.
It is a pure process of mathematical reasoning, made clear and easy by _simple analysis_. The composition though faulty in many respects, illustrates the point we had in view. A young man, while preparing for college, takes a school. Make as good a school, and accomplish as much for it, as you can in six hours, and let the rest go. (4. Of course the recitations in such a case must be memoriter. I am aware however, that I am approaching the limit, which, in many parts of our country, ought cheap cedar point tickets to bound the religious influence of the teacher in a public school; and on this subject, as on every other, he ought to do nothing directly or indirectly, which would be displeasing to those who have entrusted children cheap cedar point tickets to his care. _ Though coming to school a few minutes earlier or later, may not in itself be a matter of cheap cedar point tickets much consequence, yet the habit of being five minutes too late, if once formed, will, in actual life, be a source of great cheap cedar point tickets inconvenience, and sometimes of lasting injury. Topics.
Not, by any means, that he will adopt and continue these methods as a matter of course,--but only that a knowledge of cheap cedar point tickets them will render him very important aid in marking out his own course. As much business as is possible, should be committed to them. cheap cedar point tickets In some, especially in very small schools, the teacher allows the pupils to act according to their own discretion. He studies the materials with which he cheap cedar point tickets is to work, and lets their true character develope itself. A great number of very trifling incidents were mentioned, such as could not have produced any difficulty in the class, and consequently could cheap cedar point tickets not have been the real instances of disorder alluded to. Of course, if those founders forbid it altogether, they cheap cedar point tickets have a right to do so, and the teacher must submit.
You can easily see hew much pleasanter it is for me to have the school controlled by such an influence, cheap cedar point tickets than if it were necessary for we to hire you to diligence in duty, by prizes or rewards, or to deter you from neglect or from transgression, by reproaches, and threatenings, and punishments. "I will mention the kinds of communications you can make, and perhaps what I say will suggest something to you. He began to teach when he was twenty years of age, and now he is cheap cedar point tickets forty. He set up, in the pasture, a narrow board, for a target, or as boys would call it, a mark,--and then, collecting all the boys of the neighborhood, he proposed to them an amusement, which boys are always ready for,--firing at a mark. I think we had better take your own statements. (2. But the truth is, that in almost all such cases as this, the secret cheap cedar point tickets of the success is, not that the teacher has discovered a _better_ method than the ordinary ones, cheap cedar point tickets but that he has discovered a _new_ one. "Yes sir. " The boys laughed.
If, however, exactness and precision in all the operations of a class and of the school, are introduced and enforced, in the proper manner, i. It is true, and the fact interested me very much when I witnessed it, but I do not know that it will interest you now, merely to hear it repeated. I answer in a similar way,--very briefly and concisely however,--for the number of notes of this kind which I receive, is very large, and the time which I can devote to such a correspondence necessarily limited. I do not know the authors of the others. Tardiness; plan for punishing it. We were standing near a table, with our hats on,--and our position, and the exact appearance of the group is indelibly fixed on my memory,--when a small and youthful looking man, entered the room, and walked up towards us.
' This would be trying to excite emulation. "Do you think it would be reasonable for me to expect of every member of the class, that she should always be able to recite all her lessons, without ever missing a single question?" "No sir," answered all. It will be perceived cheap cedar point tickets that three methods of examining classes have now been named, and these will afford the teacher the means of introducing a very great variety, in his mode of conducting his recitations, while he still carries his class forward steadily cheap cedar point tickets in their prescribed course. And perhaps you will even find, that, by their new position, you have brought one or the other into circumstances of peculiar temptation. The work, in such a case, might be done in recesses, and out of school hours, and though, at first, the teacher will find, that it is as much trouble to accomplish business in this way, as it would be to attend to it directly himself,--yet after a very little experience, he will find that his pupils will acquire dexterity and readiness, and will be able cheap cedar point tickets to render him very material assistance in the accomplishment of his plans. When engaged in hearing a recitation, his mind is distracted with his schemes and plans; and instead of devoting his attention fully to the work he may have in hand, his thoughts are wandering continually to new schemes and fancied improvements, which agitate and perplex him, and which elude his efforts to give them cheap cedar point tickets a distinct and definite form. By bringing up, from time to time, some such literary inquiry as this, they will be led insensibly to regard the Bible as opening cheap cedar point tickets a field for interesting intellectual research, and will more easily be led to study it. I know of no part of the field of a teacher's labors, which may be more facilitated, by a little ingenuity, than this. cheap cedar point tickets 'Proposed that the girls who cheap cedar point tickets exhibited so much taste and ingenuity in the arrangement of the festoons of evergreen, and tumblers of flowers around the Teacher's desk, be now requested to remove the faded roses and drooping violets. M.
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