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intended to condemn real improvements of this kind, or to check those which may now be in progress,

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by men of age or experience, or of sound judgment, who are capable of distinguishing between a real improvement and a whimsical

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innovation, which can never live any longer than it is sustained may 2007 calender by the enthusiasm of the original inventor. "To the other, I might say; 'you have been a careless boy to-day; you have not got your lessons well. In a few minutes after I had seated myself on the sofa, the '_Study Card_,' was dropped, and the general noise and confusion, indicated

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that recess had arrived. '" Never destroy the effect of such a communication as this, by attempting to follow it up with an exhortation, or with general remarks, vainly attempting to strengthen the impression. It is best to avoid, if possible, an open collision with any of them at once, in order that they may be the better observed.

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Let your pupils understand, may 2007 calender not by any formal speech you make to that effect, but

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2007 calender from time to time, you incidentally allude to the subject, that you consider the school, when you commence it, as _at par_, may 2007 calender so to speak,--that is, may 2007 calender on a level with other schools, and that your various plans for improving and amending it, are not to be considered in the light of finding fault, and punishing transgressions, and controlling evil propensities, so as just to keep things may 2007 calender in a tolerable state; but as efforts to improve and carry forward, to a state of excellence not yet attained, all the affairs of the institution. The teacher gives them an example in addition, requesting them when they have performed it to rise. The scholars all know that there is nothing to be feared from confessing faults to may 2007 calender me;--but that on the other hand, it is a most direct and certain way to secure returning peace and happiness. may 2007 calender But the great mass of the fathers and mothers, of every may 2007 calender name and denomination

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through all the ranks of society,

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look up to the may 2007 calender may 2007 calender Saviour of sinners, with may 2007 calender something at least of the feeling, that he is may 2007 calender the object of extraordinary affection and reverence. "Does any body here know?" said the master. ") You take the first

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figure,--suppose may 2007 calender it is seven, and the one above it, eight. I mean that of prompting, or helping each other along in some way, at recitations. may 2007 calender _ "Can any one of the boys inform me what was the first lesson that the former master used to may 2007 calender hear in the morning?" The boys are silent, looking to one another. (c. By bringing up, from time to time, may 2007 calender some such literary inquiry as this, they will be led insensibly to regard the Bible as opening a field for interesting intellectual

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research, and will more easily be led to study it. The teacher has, therefore, only to remove obstructions, and sources of pain, and the employment of his pupils will be, of itself, a pleasure.

Of course, if the teacher is so unwise as to make such a privilege, if it were allowed him, the occasion may 2007 calender of may 2007 calender exerting an influence, upon one side or the other of some question which divides the community around him, he must expect to excite jealousy and distrust, and to be excluded from a privilege, which he might otherwise have been permitted freely to enjoy. "You may first, when you take may 2007 calender your seats, and are ready to prepare may 2007 calender the lesson, write upon your slates, a list of the ten first nouns, arranging them in a may 2007 calender column. "Do may 2007 calender you think it would be reasonable for me to expect of may 2007 calender 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.

"All those boys," said the may 2007 calender teacher, pleasantly, "who have taken out pencils, may rise. If so, the teacher will subdivide the question, on the principle we are explaining, so as to make the steps such that the pupils _can_ take them. The first in each of the other may 2007 calender departments may 2007 calender are chosen by ballot, by the scholars. may 2007 calender

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" The students responded to this appeal most heartily. The other brings all his ingenuity and enterprise into the field, to accomplish may 2007 calender a steady purpose, by means ever varying, and depends may 2007 calender for his power, on his knowledge of human nature, and on the adroit adaptation may 2007 calender may 2007 calender of plans to her fixed and uniform tendencies. " "I suppose also, that, in some cases, the writing may 2007 calender will be careless, so that I cannot easily read it. The may 2007 calender teacher calls upon one of them to produce his book, and assigns them a lesson, in regular course. This was the more distinct, because I have always accustomed my pupils to answer questions asked, and to express their wishes and feelings on any subject

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I may present to them, with great freedom. may 2007 calender A class of pupils somewhat advanced in their studies, and understanding may 2007 calender and feeling

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the value of knowledge, will need may may 2007
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' A few more facts will be stated respecting the same individual, which I believe are strictly true. _Religious Exercises in School. There

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is danger that his resentment may be roused a little, and that his mind will assume a hostile attitude at once towards such individuals; so that he will enter upon his work rather with a desire to seek a collision with them, or

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at least with may 2007 calender secret feelings of defiance towards them,--feelings which will lead to that kind of unbending perpendicularity in his demeanour towards them which will almost inevitably lead to a collision. There are three hours in

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each session, making one hundred and eighty minutes, which,

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divided among fifty, give about three minutes and a half to each

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individual. _ (See plan; page 196. I have scarcely time may 2007 calender to write to all those who are willing first to write to me. Dialogues may 2007 calender between parents and children. 'Did may 2007
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calender you know,' said the one who had first spoken of Miss W. " The boys seemed to be surprised may 2007 calender may may 2007 calender 2007 calender at this remark, as if they thought it would not be a difficult matter may 2007 calender

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may 2007 calender to decide. "I wished to may 2007 calender see whether this class would may 2007 calender be honest,--really honest, or whether they would have the insincerity to pretend to be confessing, when they may 2007 calender were not doing so honestly, so as to get the credit of being frank and sincere, when in reality they are not so. This may be done in the form of subjects assigned for composition, or proposed for free discussion in writing or conversation, or, the Superintendents may write

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themselves, and

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read to the section the instructions they wish may 2007 calender to give.

"Shoulders back. " "There is," continued I, "another injury which must grow out of such a practice. Others understand and consider may 2007

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calender all this beforehand. The first lesson might be to write twenty short sentences containing

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only adjectives.

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It is mainly owing

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may 2007 calender to the different methods adopted by various individuals. " "Yes sir," say the boys, all looking may 2007 calender with interest

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at the teacher, wondering how this experiment is going to end. It is the signal, as has been before explained, for universal permission to whisper, and to leave seats, though not for loud talking or play, so that those who wish to continue their may 2007
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calender studies may do so without interruption. How may 2007 calender many will the sun pass, in going half round? In going quarter round?" "Ninety degrees then make one quarter of the circumference of the globe. As much as this, is required

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many literary institutions. Now I need the rest of a recess, as well as you, and it does not seem to me to may 2007 calender be just that I should lose the whole of mine, every day, and spend it in a most unpleasant business, when I take pains, myself, to come punctually every morning. D.

The first to the _business of the school_, and the second may 2007 calender to such studies or lectures as could be most profitably attended

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may 2007 calender to at such a time. The progress which it is capable of making is entirely indefinite. There are indeed, many principles, may 2007 calender which are, in my view, essential parts of Christianity, which are subjects of active discussion among us. I do not mean that this will be the case with all, but that there will be a few, who will be ungenerous enough,

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may 2007 calender if you allow them to decide, sometimes, to endeavor to make trouble, or at least to show symptoms of impatience and vexation, because you do not allow may 2007 calender them to decide always. 3. But within these limits, exercise may 2007 calender ingenuity and invention as much as you will. He is employed may 2007 calender there, not as a religious teacher, but for another specific and well-defined object. This, however, _the assistance rendered to the teacher_, is not

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the object. "Well now, Joseph, it will be a great deal

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better for us both to be friends than to be enemies. It of course will require some little time, and no little firmness,

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to establish the new order of things, where a school has been accustomed to another course; but where may 2007 calender this is once done, I know no one plan so simple and may 2007 calender so easily put into

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execution, which will do so much towards may 2007 calender relieving the teacher of the distraction and perplexity of his may 2007 calender may 2007 calender pursuits. "Suppose you all had your choice either to belong to a company like the first one I described,

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where the captain was strict in all his requirements, or to one like the latter, where you could do pretty much as you pleased, which should you may 2007 calender prefer?" may 2007 calender Unless I entirely mistaken in my idea of the inclinations of boys, it would be very difficult to get a single honest expression of preference for the latter.

My apology is this. If any of you wish for assistance may 2007 calender or advice from me, in putting them in order, I shall may 2007 calender be happy to render it. They all count the number of errors and report them. Never

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lose sight

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of them, nor turn to the right or to the left to follow any ignis fatuus may 2007 calender which may endeavor to allure you away; but exercise as

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much ingenuity and enterprise as you please, in giving variety and interest to the modes by which

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these objects are pursued. Well grounded confidence in such a person, if there was reason for it, ought to leave such an effect, but not prejudice. In describing the order of daily may 2007 calender exercises, I alluded to the _sections_ which

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assemble in the last hour may 2007 calender of the school. Now how much better it would be, to spend a little time in fixing the fact in the mind once for all, and then when you come to the case, seven and eight are--say at once "Fifteen,"--instead

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of mumbling over and over again, hundreds of times, "Seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve,

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Either of these would secure success, unless the plan was a very bad one indeed.

The first great difficulty which the teacher feels, is a sort of _moral responsibility for the conduct of others_. There are very few districts

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may 2007 calender where parents would have any objection to this. A young lady, I will imagine, wishes to introduce the study of Botany into

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her school. The teacher can himself may 2007 calender often bring forward, in this way, his suggestions, with more effect than he otherwise could do.

; let us call the others, B. Measures. "

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The students responded to this appeal most heartily. It interests them in the improvement of the school, exercises their judgment, establishes a common feeling between teacher and pupil, may 2007 calender and in many other ways will assist very much in promoting the welfare may 2007 calender of the school. may 2007 calender He may be several days in gathering around him the circumstances, of which he is ultimately to avail himself, in bringing him

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he proceeds thus slowly, and tenderly, may 2007 calender he must come with the air of authority and power. When he proposes something

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new to a class, they all take an interest in it, because it is _new_. Evils of it. This hour, like all the other hours for may 2007 calender study, is divided

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into two equal parts, some classes reciting in the first part, and others in may 2007 calender may 2007 calender the second.

The posture, which from four years' experience, I would recommend at this exercise, is sitting, with the heads reclined upon the may 2007 calender desks. The teacher seems to consider that a matter of course. I have a great many classes to hear, and of course a great many lessons to assign, may 2007 calender and I never remember them; it is not necessary far me to remember. I could kill him at the first hit.

" "I am not surprised may 2007 calender then, that you want to sit together,--though, to tell the truth, that is rather may 2007 calender a reason why I should may

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2007 calender separate you. "Here then," said the master, "is may 2007 calender one reason for having prickles around the chestnuts when they are small. She had expected that may 2007 calender may 2007 calender even something nicer than may 2007 calender usual would be necessary

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to compensate may 2007 calender her for past

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sufferings. 1. The best way is generally to face these individuals at once, in the most direct and open manner, and, at the same time, with perfect good humor, and kindness

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of feeling may 2007 calender and deportment towards them personally.

All however, should be done in a pleasant tone, and with may may 2007 calender 2007 calender a pleasant and cheerful air. Any thing the scholars may have known to be done on the Sabbath which they doubt whether

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right or wrong. His estimate will ordinarily be larger than that of the scholars; because he knows better how easily resolutions are broken. C and D. " Of course the prayer of each day will be varied, unless, in special cases, the teacher prefers to read some form may 2007 calender like the above. He sits in the middle of the second desk. may 2007 calender

Another 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 one another. They can count all who are here, and by observing the vacant desks, they can ascertain the number absent.

The reason now why some teachers find their work delightful, and some find it wearisomeness

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and tedium itself, is that some do, and some do not take this view may 2007 calender of their work. "I have thought that time will be saved, if you will help me distribute the books, and I will accordingly appoint four distributors, one for each division of the seats, who may come to me, and receive the books and distribute

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them, each to his own may 2007 calender division. Some will

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defer their answers, until they can catch those of their comrades, for a guide. may 2007 calender As to all questions about the lesson,--where it is, and what it is, and how long it is,--never answer them. She left her, saying she thought an half hour's study would conquer all the difficulties she found in the lesson. I shall not tell you his name, for I do not wish to injure his character.

'Proposed that the committee be impeached, for not providing suitable may 2007 calender pens. " The plaintiff looked a little perplexed, as if she could not understand how it could be otherwise than wrong, for a girl to usurp her seat. In fact may 2007 calender all

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mechanical employments have, within a few years risen in rank, in this country, not through the influence of efforts

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to impress the community directly with a sense may 2007 calender of their importance, but simply because mechanics themselves have risen may 2007 calender in intellectual

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and moral character. ACCOUNTANTS. A considerable number of the scholars usually attend, and frequently bring with them many of their female friends. But as a general principle it is most unquestionably true, may 2007 calender that it is the teacher's duty _to accommodate himself to the character and expectations of his

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employers_, not to face and brave them.

"It would be her duty _not_ to go; but I suppose it will be very difficult for me to convince you of it. Such cases however

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never occur. Was may 2007 calender a building burnt may 2007 calender by lightning may 2007 calender in the neighborhood? Let those who saw the scene, describe it; their productions to be read by the teacher aloud; and let them see that clear descriptions may may 2007 calender 2007 calender please, and that may 2007 calender good legible writing can be read fluently, and that correct spelling, and punctuation, and grammar, make the

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article go smoothly and pleasantly, and enable it to produce its full effect. 3.

He should not endeavor to make it very easy.

" "Why sir?" "Because I have observed that when two great friends are seated together, they are always more apt to may 2007 calender whisper and play. 105 CHAPTER V. Let piety control and regulate it. Keeping a register of the scholars, and various other duties connected with the accounts. ) By publishing them in periodicals devoted to education.

When you first may may 2007 calender 2007 calender enter the school, you will, for a day or two, be assigned to but few classes, for your mind will be distracted by the excitement

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of new scenes and pursuits, and may 2007 calender the intellectual may 2007 calender effort necessary may 2007 calender for _joining_ a class is greater than that requisite for _going on_ with it, after being once under way. Thus by means of the half hour during which the scholars are coming together, and of the

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visits made in the preceding evening, as described under the last head, the teacher will find, may 2007 calender when he may 2007 calender calls upon the children to take their seats, that he has made a very large number of them his personal friends. He made the plan perfectly clear to them, by taking a particular noun, and running it through the table, showing what should be written opposite to the word, in all the columns;

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and may 2007 calender then dismissed them.

The longer it is postponed, the more difficult and trying it will be. His work is thus made up of a thousand minute particulars, which are all crowding upon his attention at once, and which

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he cannot group together, may
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easier to introduce this practice, than it would at first

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be supposed. First. Strokes rough. " "I perceive your answers become fainter and fainter. For some time, the attention may 2007 calender of the Instructers was occupied may may
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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. One day he came to school, in the afternoon, and found may 2007 calender

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the room filled with smoke; the doors and windows were all closed, though, as soon as he came in, some

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of the boys opened them. OFFICERS. "I do not mean," interrupts

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the teacher, "the _names_ of the books, but the _kinds_ of books. There is no question too, that in very many instances, the faint glimmering of religious interest, which would have kindled into a bright flame, may 2007 calender is extinguished at once and perhaps for ever, by the rough inquiries of a religious friend. ) Do not be eager to draw from your pupils, an expression of their personal interest in religious truth. By no

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means. And then when we reflect upon the influence which would be exerted upon the future religious character of this nation, by having the millions of children training up in the schools, may 2007 calender accustomed, through all the years of early life, to being brought daily into the presence of the Supreme, with thanksgiving, confession, and prayer, it can hardly seem possible that the teacher who wishes to be faithful in his duties, should hesitate in regard to this.

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Variety. In hearing the different classes, he would watch for opportunities for combining them, or discontinuing those where the number

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was small,--he would alter the times of recitation, and group individual scholars into classes, so as to bring the school, in a very short time, into a condition corresponding more nearly with his own views.

"Recess was again announced, and

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