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A daily religious service in school may be, therefore, the outward act by which he, who has long lived without God,

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may return to his duty. 1. But let it be distinctly understood, that this, and this only, has been the object of this chapter, thus far: bernard andrieux The first point brought up, was the desirableness of making, at first, a favourable impression,--the bernard andrieux second, the necessity of taking general views of the condition of the school, and aiming to improve

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it in the mass, and not merely to

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rebuke or punish accidental faults,--and the third, the importance and bernard andrieux the means of gaining a general influence and ascendency over the minds of the pupils. Weaknesses and foibles met with unmerciful severity; and well-meaning intentions and kind actions did not always escape without the keen sarcasm, bernard andrieux bernard andrieux which it is so difficult for the best regulated mind to bear unmoved. Form of the letter bad. I can't bear her.

Were it not for the art of classification and system, no school could have more than bernard andrieux ten scholars, as bernard andrieux I intend hereafter to show. Injury to clothes. It is for the purpose of teaching the children of that district, bernard andrieux _reading_, _writing_, and _calculation_, and for such other purposes, bernard andrieux analogous to

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this, as the law, providing for the establishment of district schools, contemplated. Beyond this, however, no interference contrary bernard andrieux to the parent's consent, is justifiable. But children are not reached by formal exhortations; their hearts are touched and affected in other ways.

A child comes to you, for example, and says, "Will you tell me, sir, where the next lesson is?" "Were you not in the

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class at the time?" "Yes sir, but I have forgotten. It is far better to allure them, by showing them the pleasures of doing right. Giving leave to whisper or to bernard andrieux leave seats. "All those boys," said the teacher, pleasantly, "who have taken out pencils, may rise.

With these views bernard andrieux I could not, bernard andrieux when writing on the duties of a teacher of the young, refrain from bringing bernard andrieux distinctly to view, this, which has so imperious a claim.

He should understand, too, that just so far as he falls short of this full effect, there is waste.

_Sarah. During the writing

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hour, the scholars bernard andrieux would bernard andrieux practice, each at the lesson where he left off before, and at a particular time, each day, the books were brought bernard andrieux from the regular place of deposit,

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and laid before the teacher for examination. ! I do not like to do any thing like that, about it; besides, I do not know how bernard andrieux to write an indictment. "Yes sir," was bernard andrieux still the reply, but fainter than before. Also, to say that the air from the broken pane of glass on the east side of the room, is very bernard andrieux unpleasant to these who sit near. You ask them to wait that day after school and come to your desk. The composition though faulty in many respects, illustrates the point we had in view.

The fact that the teacher

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does not know every thing, cannot long be concealed,

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if he tries to conceal it; and in this, as in every other case, HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. I will give you another example, and then notice by my watch, the shortest and longest bernard andrieux time bernard bernard andrieux bernard andrieux andrieux bernard andrieux required bernard andrieux to do it. ) Bring, very fully bernard andrieux bernard andrieux and frequently, before your pupils the practical duties of religion in all their details, especially their duties at home; to their parents and to their bernard andrieux

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brothers and sisters. _ Have we?

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Well never mind, I guess we shall find them. You may hope that he is going to devote bernard andrieux bernard andrieux his life to the service of God. I shall never reproach you, and perhaps may not even know what your choice

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is. Dialogue with James. Keeping Resolutions; notes of Teacher's Lecture.

But the pupil, in such cases, understands, or at least he believes, that the teacher applies to religious truth, only to eke out his own authority, and of course, it produces no effect. But he may be, notwithstanding this, on the most intimate and familiar footing with them all.

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He was to take them up, and throw bernard andrieux them over into the pasture, across the way. Another bernard andrieux means of securing the personal attachment of boys, is to notice them,--to take an interest in their pursuits, and the qualities and powers which they value in

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appropriated to such subjects, he addresses the boys as follows:

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"In our efforts to improve the school as much as possible, there is one subject, which we must not forget. There will be very little to interest you except the subject itself, for I make all

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the instructions which I give there as plain, direct, and practical as is in my power.

_Charles. " "How many desks do you think will be found to be disorderly, when we come to make the examination?" The boys hesitate. If they

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it must be done cautiously and gradually. And secondly,

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while doing this, bernard andrieux to become as fully acquainted with his scholars as possible. [Footnote E: Originally bernard andrieux written for a periodical. THE CORRESPONDENCE.

You have improved a little, but you have not decidedly bernard andrieux and thoroughly reformed. Some time after this, a student was indicted for profane swearing; he was tried, convicted, and punished. I gave them their choice, either always bernard andrieux to ask permission when they wished to speak, or to have a certain time allowed for the purpose, during which free inter-communication bernard andrieux might be allowed to all the school;--with bernard andrieux

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bernard andrieux the understanding, however, that out of this time, no permission should ever be asked or granted. You will observe too, that by this plan of having a great many classes bernard andrieux reciting through the first three hours of the morning,

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every pupil can be employed as much or as little as her parents please. It hung the ball at a proper distance from the book, and bound it firmly in its place by bernard andrieux threads running from bernard andrieux it,

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in every direction, to the bernard andrieux parts of the book which were near, and then the animal took its place, quietly by its side. 4. There is probably no employment whatever which affords so favorable bernard andrieux an opportunity for personal improvement,--for steady intellectual and moral progress, as that of teaching.

{ C. The plan described by the following article, which was furnished by a teacher for insertion here, was originally adopted, bernard andrieux so far as I know, in a school on the Kennebec.

He has maliciously taken another boy's bernard andrieux

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place just to spoil his bernard andrieux

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work. Be definite and distinct in your plan,--decide exactly what you will do, and bernard andrieux how you will do it--when you will begin and when you will end.

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It is universal in its application. Abbott, I think I have time for some more studies. On such occasions,

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she was very careful to have some amusing book, or diverting plaything in a conspicuous part of the bernard andrieux room, and not unfrequently a piece of gingerbread was given to solace the runaway. _Teacher. On the other hand, a month's anarchy

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and

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confusion in a bernard andrieux college or an academy, would be delight to half the students, or else times have greatly changed, since

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I was within college walls. If this practice is adopted, it will have a most powerful influence upon the moral condition of the school. " The officers then passed round in regular order, each through her own division, and collected the papers. He allowed a day or two to elapse, so that the conversation bernard andrieux

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might be forgotten, and then took an opportunity, one day, after school, when all things had gone on pleasantly, and the school was about to be closed, to bring forward bernard andrieux the whole subject. A physician may bernard andrieux spend all his

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waking-hours in visiting patients, and feel little more

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than healthy fatigue.

"Is the sun ever exactly over our heads?" "Is he ever exactly bernard andrieux bernard andrieux south of us?" "When he is exactly south of us, or in other words, exactly opposite to us, in his course round the earth, he is said bernard

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andrieux to be in our meridian. |MATHEMATICS.

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_Never_, bernard andrieux bernard andrieux do I say? Perhaps there may be some exceptions. Suppose I should bernard andrieux call one of the boys, A. Any thing they think bernard andrieux can be improved in the management of the school by the Teacher. bernard andrieux The record of each day will bernard andrieux be read on the succeeding, at the hour for business. Of course there may be cases, in, fact there often will be cases, bernard andrieux where particular words will require special explanation, but they will be comparatively few, and instead of making efforts to avoid them, it will be better to let them come. " "The next?" bernard
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andrieux "John.

Does he notice a child's ringing a door bell in play? He notices when a child is

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willing bernard andrieux

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to yield to temptation, to do what she knows to be wrong, and to act, even in the slightest trifle, from a selfish disregard for the convenience of others. This is a subject upon which young persons find much difficulty. Therefore it was wrong. " "Proposed that we have locks upon our desks.

It commences at half past three bernard andrieux

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and continues about half an hour. Vain attempts at oratory, result in nine cases out of ten, in grandiloquence bernard andrieux and empty verbiage;--common thoughts expressed in pompous periods. bernard andrieux Precisely bernard andrieux at the end of the half hour, it will ring again, when new classes bernard andrieux will take bernard andrieux their bernard andrieux places. G. The boys were accustomed to take their bernard andrieux places, at the appointed hour, and each one bernard andrieux would stick up his pen in the front of his desk for the teacher to pass around and mend them.

Many teachers seem bernard andrieux to imagine, that if any thing is in itself important, and especially if

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it is an important branch of education, the question is settled of its

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being a proper object of attention in school.

"Do you bernard andrieux remember the noise to which I called your attention early this afternoon? "Yes, sir. Should you on the other hand prefer the peace and happiness of piety, and be bernard andrieux bernard andrieux willing to begin to bernard andrieux walk in its paths, you will find many both among the teachers and pupils of the Mt. And then the moral impressions will be altogether more strong and salutary, if an act of solemn religious worship bernard andrieux is made the first bernard andrieux bernard andrieux opening act

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of the school. of having waste papers bernard andrieux in the aisle opposite her desk, at 11 o'clock, on Friday, Oct.

State publicly that you will bernard andrieux not appoint any to office, who are not good scholars, bernard andrieux always punctual, and always prepared; and when any boy, who holds an office, is going behind hand bernard andrieux in his studies, say to him kindly, "You have not time to get your lessons, and I am afraid it is owing to the time you spend in helping me. These Superintendents, it is true, during bernard bernard andrieux andrieux most of school hours are also Teachers. The subjects which may be advantageously brought forward in such a way, are of course very numerous.

He begins at the head of the line, and putting one word to each boy, goes regularly down, each

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successive pupil calculating the chances whether a word, which he can accidentally spell, will or will not

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come to him. "Mr. Unless what

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is said be addressed particularly bernard andrieux to herself, her eyes are directed towards bernard andrieux another part of the room; it may be her thoughts are employed bernard andrieux bernard andrieux about something not at all connected with the bernard andrieux school. "I witnessed, a short time since, a meeting between two friends, who had had but little intercourse before, for a long while. "You will get tired, I have no doubt. Then they may classify adverbs on the principle of their meaning, or according to their termination. In ordinary cases, business comes at bernard
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andrieux first by slow degrees, and the beginner is introduced to the labors and responsibilities of his employment, in a very gradual manner. "John Williams and Samuel Smith, come here to me," exclaims the master, bernard andrieux in a harsh, impatient tone, in the midst of the exercises of the afternoon. I know we are lost, for when we went after the flowers we only turned

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once, and coming back, we have turned three bernard andrieux times. " The class looked surprised. bernard andrieux Whenever, then, the study card goes up, and you hear the sound of its little bell, immediately and instantaneously stop, whatever you are saying.

There is no other way by which they can be safely introduced or even introduced at all. I am met, however, at the outset, in

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my effort to show why it is that teaching is ever a pleasant work, by the want of a name for a certain

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faculty or capacity

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of the human mind, through which most of the enjoyment of teaching finds its avenue. It sometimes springs up, spontaneously, and where it is not guided aright by the teacher, sometimes produces very bad effects bernard andrieux upon the minds of the pupils, in rival institutions. "Now I should like to have you try again, and I will, at the same time, bernard andrieux say another line, to

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see if I can put you out. " (Here there bernard andrieux is a bernard andrieux sort of involuntary movement all along the line, by which,

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it is very sensibly straightened. Though the description is not to be considered so much an accurate account of what occurred in a particular case, as an illustration of the _general spirit and manner_ in which such cases are disposed of. The boxes will be open during the bernard andrieux next recess.

Lay before them, and enforce, by all the means in your power, the principles of christian duty, but do not converse with them for the purpose of gratifying your curiosity in regard to their piety, or your spiritual

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pride by counting up the numbers of those who have been led to piety by your influence. There are dangers, however. Require each pupil to remember for himself, and if he was absent when the lesson bernard
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andrieux bernard andrieux was assigned, let him ask his class mate in a recess. " "May I speak to one of the class, to ask about it?" "You cannot speak, you know, till the Study Card is down; you may,

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then. My pupils would make resolutions enough; they understood bernard andrieux bernard andrieux their duty well enough. It will show that the teacher is upon his guard; and there are very few, so hardened in deception, that they would not wish that bernard andrieux they had been really sincere, rather than rest under such an imputation. The result

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was, that they discovered the guilty individuals, ascertained the amount of mischief done by each, and sent to the selectmen a message,

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by which they agreed to pay a sum equal to three bernard andrieux times the value of the injury sustained. This information

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you think it does depend upon

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that?" "Yes sir. It is so obvious and unquestionable, as to be entirely beyond the necessity of proof, for it is plain that nothing but such a bond of union, can

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keep the peace, among the millions of distinct intelligences with which the creation is filled. There are indeed, many principles, which are, in my view, essential bernard andrieux parts of Christianity, which are subjects of active discussion among us.

In fact, I do not expect you will succeed, the first day, very well. As you will perceive by recalling to mind the daily order of exercises, the classes meet and recite during the first three hours of the school, and the sections assemble on the fourth and last. ORDER OF DAILY EXERCISES.

bernard andrieux You know it would be very unwise for me, after assigning a lesson in the class, to spend my time in telling the individuals over again here. Time wasted by too minute an attention to individuals. As soon as the first bustle of opening and shutting the desks was over, bernard bernard andrieux andrieux he looked around the room, and saw some ruling lines across their slates, others wiping them all over on both sides, with sponges, others scribbling, or writing, or making figures. It was almost universally the practice

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to whisper

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more or less about subjects entirely

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foreign to the

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business of the school. They

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met about once a week to transact such business

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as appointing officers, making and repealing regulations, and inquiring bernard andrieux into the state of the Lyceum. I never make any effort to urge any one to attend the Saturday meeting, nor do I, except in a few rare and peculiar cases, ever address any one personally, unless

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andrieux she desires to be so bernard andrieux addressed. The period necessary to effect the revolution will be longer or shorter, according to the circumstances of the school, and the dexterity of the teacher; and, after all, the teacher must not hope _entirely_ to exclude it. There is indeed a point where firm resistance bernard andrieux to unreasonable demands becomes a duty.

Two

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individuals bernard andrieux might be appointed bernard andrieux at the beginning of the week, who should feel it their business to observe particularly the course of things from day to day, with reference to the report. If present at the devotional exercises,

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she

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finds it bernard andrieux difficult to command her attention, even when desirous of so doing, and her deportment at this

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hour, is accordingly marked with an unbecoming listlessness and abstraction. Of course, religious truth, at such a time,

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can make no good

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impression. ' After a time, the recess closed, and order was again bernard andrieux bernard andrieux restored. It bernard andrieux is your business to know what sort of beings boys are, and to make your calculations accordingly.

| +-------+----------+------------+--+--+-------------+--+--+-----------+ | | EVENING | LANGUAGES. In a word, if the teacher is really bernard andrieux honest and bernard andrieux sincere in his wish to lead his pupils to the worship of God, he will find no serious difficulty in preventing the abuses

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and avoiding the dangers which some might fear, and in accomplishing vast good, both in promoting the prosperity of the school, and in the formation bernard andrieux

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of the highest bernard andrieux and best traits a individual character. The Principal accordingly went into the class, and something bernard andrieux bernard andrieux like the following dialogue ensued. Dialogue with James.

Either of these circumstances is abundantly sufficient to account bernard andrieux for its success. There is another view of the

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subject, which ought to be taken.

" "We may start the desks from their places," said one.

In endeavoring

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to correct the faults of your pupils, do not, as many teachers

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do, seize only upon _those particular cases_

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of transgression, which may happen to come under your notice. They would be far more valuable than any general speculations, however well conceived or expressed. Hours of study and recess. Weaknesses and foibles met with unmerciful severity; and well-meaning intentions and kind bernard andrieux actions did not always escape without the keen sarcasm, which it is so difficult for the best regulated mind to bear unmoved. " The boys looked rather anxiously at one another, but continued silent. All would watch, too, with interest, the progress bernard andrieux and the result of the experiment; and if, a few days after, bernard andrieux the teacher should accidentally, in recess, see a disorderly desk, a pleasant remark, made with a smile, to the bystanders, bernard andrieux bernard andrieux "I suspect my prediction will turn bernard andrieux out the correct one," would have far more effect,

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than the most severe bernard andrieux reproaches, or the tingling of a rap over the knuckles with a rattan. The above bernard
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the reader a clear idea of the exercise, bernard andrieux and to show what is the nature of the moral effect it is calculated to produce. He thinks that bernard bernard andrieux andrieux God is present, and loves him, and takes care of him, and he is obedient and grateful in return. bernard andrieux They are such as the bernard andrieux following.

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But still, the ultimate power is theirs. Parents have the bernard andrieux ultimate right to decide how their children shall be educated. Besides giving the scholars the necessary intellectual instruction, there are, as I have already remarked, a great many other points which must receive attention, in order

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to promote their progress, and to bernard andrieux secure

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the regular operation and general welfare of the school. Ways of making known bernard andrieux new plans. " "I don't know what you will do, then: I am sorry you don't remember.

Now if a fault prevails in school, one teacher will scold and fret himself about it, day after day, until his scholars are tired both of school and of him: and yet he will do nothing effectual to remove it. The object of a school is not to take children bernard bernard andrieux andrieux out of the parental hands, substituting the watch and guardianship of a stranger, for the natural care of father and mother.