THETORCH o f REASON, SILVERTON, -OREGON, APRIL 12, 1900.
ing the evils of inherited weak-
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nesses, is added the overcoming of
the evil effects of the had environ-
m ent previous to our tak.ng charge
and of those bad factors of th e e n v i-
ronm ent which are interm ixed with
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those orout
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inose great suns, planets and satel-
lites th at
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speech and nigh, IInt0
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eth knowledge ”
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Teachers, do we wish to trn lv
educate? Do we wish to drive from
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wner, we consider the weaknesses of union and despair, and replace it
ourselves, th a t our work is not as witn happy rig h t-ID in - , h e s . r Z t h
product,ve of good as we expected of union and the unselfish hope of
to m ake rt when we first started out a more perfect world ? We mus
,n this good work of teaching. You then be broad; we m ust know th a t
who have tau g h t well rem em ber boys and girls, even those who
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eXpeCted lo have “ srow n ta ll,” are w hat they
do. Aou all know how com pletely have been made by th eir inheri-
nonplussed you were again and tance and by th eir ¡cachings; th a t
again, and how, after try in g so all peoples are w hat they m ust be;
hard you alm ost gave up when th a t punishm ent for the sake of
you saw how little could be done in punishm ent is as much of a crim e
such a long, long time.
B ut a as th a t for which the punishm ent
steady dropping wears away was given; th a t all wrong comes
stones,” and teaching, teaching, from ignorance and th a t science,
teaching by and by stam ps into the knowledge and tru th will save the
true teacher’s brain the true p rin world.
ciples of teaching, and he or she
M any teachers m ake the m istake
then goes at the work like any one of th in k in g th a t th eir work is to
who has m astered a trade. But im p art a large fund of inform ation
‘keeping school” which some are to their pupils, but the “ stuffing
pleased to call “ teaching” will never process is behind the tim es and
by itself give one the ab ility to m odern educators know th a t the
teach.
principal work of a real teacher is
We m ust have lively interest in to m ake conditions such th a t his
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w u u iu u u s sucn
the work; we m ust thoroughly in -| pupils will become truth-seekers
«•stigate as to the true principles of | and happily educate them selves,
and the best m ethods, and above j Self-education is the only educa-
all we m ust have a disposition to tion there is, and he who endeavors
imurove, ab ility to change from 1 to educate iu any o th er way than
poor to better ways and an honest to study, plan and th in k how best
desire (w hich is read by all child- to get the stu d en t into th e right
ren) to help them to higher and bet “ m ental
' ’ condition
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to help him self
ter things.
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m ake a m iserable ia
failure.
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But w hat is the general plau or horse may be led to w ater but vou
what is the outline of a true teacher’s can ’t m ake him d rin k ” - and a etu-
work to he? W hat, we repeat, are dent may be com pelled’to hold his
« d r y in g to d o ? \\ e are, or should book in his hand but in order to
be. trying
trvincr to
rn help
htalrv the
tkz. stu d en t se
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be,
learn he m ust become th irsty for
cure the glorious power of knowing knowledge; it is therefore as dan
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ruth about the world in which |gerous to give our young people
e lives, the glorious emotion of I overdoses of m ental work as it is to
oving the tru th and the glorious give them too little
will to advocate an d teach the tru th I Nicely planned lessons given to
hat the world m ay be better for pupils who do not care to lean,
hts havtng lived.
glve Innch pO(lrer resu|ts tb an ,f
is can only be done by a given to pupils who have found
rough train in g of all the facul- out th a t the real fountain o f im-
t le, r<”*d Vlewof ,b in 8s m,,rta l youth is the great pteasure
which comes from a study of the
there is in knowing the real tru th s
whole universe. In fact a teacher
of things. Such pupils become real
n w t have a cosm opolitan mind in students
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scholars anQ
and [ne,r
th eir e(J.
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he broadest sense and m ust assist ucation does not stop with the close
>he student to secure through his of th eir school days. They become
'■»Oris a cosm opolitan m ind great readers; they are not over-
' ? traVel broaden8 come by th eir em otions; an d , after j
m t , but to know about things th eir youthful period of fiction, they
8 “ set as we travel broadens, de- joyously enter th e beautiful fields
minrt ’
a,,<1 COmpIe‘e’ the o f Science, and Iheir m enial pro-
no. He who is carried by force cesses blossom out into beauti-
circum stances into a foreign ful flowers th a t are loved and en-
fr.n n Y 8
-. f‘aPPy’ eVen j f a “ ay j " yed hy the bi8 h<»‘ “ '’d best; their
m int ° me’ '•
haS been ,bere
life *8 “ ""ccess; they never grow
to see it,an y tlme8; B e is delighted old; they are cosm opolitan in m in d ,.
flow»,. a r ' vers’ lhe m ountains, tl.e and can say with the A uthor-H ero
«ewers and everytb.ng, even the of the R evolution: “ The world i s '
E e’ though they be his enemies, my co u n try l”
“r their habit», th eir custom s,
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