Pocahontas Democrat (Newspaper) - February 27, 1902, Pocahontas, Iowa 27, 1902 51. Farts of Well Good Program and Interest by yance and T. County Association meeting to be held in the court house last Saturday afternoon was well attended and those present on gave gome very interesting pavi i's on various subjects thei i. meeting was order by With Mrs. Thatcher at the organ and Prof. of Fonda as the audience sung which was followed duet by the Misses the Olive Martin was appointed Owing to the length of the program and limited time Superintendent y could not give his tlie Know Only His it in full and all those in school work will find it But a few days ago a intelligent lady why does the primary be in Physics and other higher studios her work is exclusively with the first two years in Many and many a time the county has to answer the must I be examined in the higher branches when I shall not have to teach Does the primary teacher need higher Docs United States history need the perspective of These simple and trite questions involve a principle quite easy to mean narrowness of a The is a The specialist is narrow in concentrating his to one little field to the elusion of all He wants the earth for his specialty and thinks everybody else a mere spoke in his But the teacher is est of thera Meet hor where you will and what does she talk what seems to be the only thing that fills her and ' I But what must teacher know beyond what she We say ordinarily that the duty of a ' teacher is to know Iter This is but are we to suppose that the teacher must know only the subjects she or should she know the whole subject of the primary studies are but a Surely the latter is the only true The teaching of a subject cannot in the subject To know ordinary - one must know higher one and and so of Therefore from a teaching standpoint it is plain that the shoemaker must know more than teacher must know what and how she will teach it. At present the law requires the would-be to be examined in ten ci subjects which is to tell those in authority whether the applicant knows the matter and Mw to teach it. But how much more teacher Have we a require other than practice iii keeping A teacher takes a school of beginners who want know more than her If what shall the teacher know to any large gathering of in this read the literature coming from the pens of our leading educators and what do you hear over and needs better trained trained i better trained What does a better trained teacher Does it mean some who has kept school twenty Not Does it mean someone who has on some fortunate or in a training Not Does it mean some one who nag visited a normal school or Not Does it i mean a teacher who knows just how force is consumed by f Johnnie in thinking a-b Not Who It is the A person with a mind Jilled with beyond the three with every power into habits of precision A mind with a larger clearer -t tell tho great trouble with IS that we are too do not notwithstanding tho fact now and then we meet a teacher well as a county superintendent ' knows it Every teacher 1 havo lesS of a liberal has developed a freer manhood or Because in our rural are teaching the boys the common ' the tools with which to earn their and we should also be in right habits of and They been brought in contact with a more ty It been said that from The universities were hoary with age the public school systern was Harvard was tho infant or Without of lower the latter would Tye and From higher COmen of from the educated has the desire and a of universal The growth has beto from above The must be above tiie pupil lift aim Christ said just I be lifted ffk the I will draw all meit at would be an excellent text Lift the teachers up how much higher the rising more eco they are es v to show ley general 1 studies are not tnt address at the tion this StJ in teachers should be gradates mal schools or mav present be so 1 should no longer - ak Advanced step of It I ly require that 1. 1!)04. no person shall be certificated to who had not previously or pursued a scholastic course equivalent to that given in an accredited high If you are not a graduate of an accredited then I suppose that you will have to take an examination in all branches required to be taught in an accredited high Would this be This is an age of But to from ignorant the state requires the law student tu have at least a high school while the medical student in many schools of medicine is to be a college Should the stale require any less from the teacher who shapes or the immortal of our the state superintendent's suggestion should be adopted by the present we have no fears but that the teachers of Pocahontas county will be able to meet the new In many respects the county is fortunate in the class of teachers that she from the state department show Init nine granted in this county to teachers who never attended a normal school or while in some of the counties per cent of the teachers have not attended even a high Our teachers easily be made high school many lack but a terms of being normal school graduates at A few like the will always be with They become active about institute time Their efforts to improve in the nvo or weeks institute alarming to say the but just as soon as they have squeezed through and received their after trying two or they fold their little hands and say their little I lay me down to And O. how calm and peaceful is their It is with something of a throb the county superintendent is each year to blow bis horn and awaken these beauties to the spasmodic Thank fortune this class is not so larpe as it used to let us go back to the narrowness of the Grant that every teacher in the county is a graduate of the state there would still lie It affects the teacher in the rural is found among the town lodges with the and is at home with the county tells us what it is Jn is no which there is so danger of shrinking up in intellectual powers as that of 1 assign as a that teachers are too apt to imagine that they have learned all that is necessary for them to But there is another cause for narrowness among a large class of They center all their thoughts upon their They arc constantly thinking of how will manage Johnnie or Mary or this class or or perhaps they are continually studying tlie latest and All this is excellent for the schools for the time but not the best for the Good time without fail to answer tlie simplest questions on current showing that they do not even read the Teachers should learn a lesson from Ben You remember when he was made a slave he noticed that the men worked all the time on one side of the had the muscles of one side of their bodies well while tlie muscles of the other side had withered because they were not In other words the slaves had become or one Ben Hur to be from one side to the so that by working a short time on this sido and then on his developed may be fettered by tho daily routine of the but she ban some time to develop hei self This is an age atul cheap Li open before us oh all sides child is having storehouses of information and an abundance of the literature opened to his eager It is so much a fellow whether but can lyou take proper place in this ago you know much or inore than the average If there is time for the tho to become with the greatest most cultured through then the must the same The teacher may be in that she knows one thing she is an authority in her a for tlie to know something more than his assigned T. and the the Teacher was ably but as -as Mr. Lynch had to Following is his and well merits close regard to the 27" that C mist in length of davi Clearance 1 Sale I Winter 1 the a be so selected given that Chapter 107, Acts oi General An for teaching a public school is binding neither on the teacher nor the as it does not follow out the provisions as provided by the But while a contract between a teacher and the district may not conform with the and may therefore not bind a teacher to tench nor place any obligation on the district to permit him to do yet if does teach tho school in that particular no objection is made and the board permits him to the teacher may usually recover the salary as stipulated in the contract because by their both parties have thus in the case of vs. Independent District of reported in the it was held that a contract made between the teacher and tho individual directors of an while not assembled as though not originally was held to have and made binding by partial payment to the teacher who had performed his tlie yet on the other in that if the teacher refused to the district would not have any claim for damages for breach of or if the district liad refused to allow bim to the teacher would havo no claim for damages as there was no contract the parties until ratified by their In the Cook vs. Independent School District of North 40th page 44,' the supreme court held that where a teacher had made a mere oral contract with the school board to teach for nine months and had taught six months for them and received pay after which he was discharged without but still held himself in readiness to the it was the teacher would be entitled to wages for the unexpired term of three In all these cases the teacher in good faith under the the board accepted and in but it was held in the case of Place vs. the District Township of page 57: that no recovery can be had on the contract to school made with the lint not approved by the of the unless such has been waived and the contract ratified by the The fact that the proceeds completes the performance of the is not to constitute such ratification and authorize a It may therefore be laid down as il general proposition that a teacher's contract in order to bind the teacher to or tho board to permit him to do must in all respects conform to the requirements of the but however informal and the contract may if the teacher teaches under it and tho board does any act recognizing and accepting his services as rendered under the it is a ratification which makes the contract binding in all its terms oii both parties so that each case depends on its own peculiar facts and the circumstances give rise to the matter in to the lengthy of term for which a teacher may be employed to our supreme court has decided in the case of Burkhead vs. tho Independent District of 107tb page 29, that a- school and in regard to city superintendents of that contracts for tho of should not be and could not bo for a longer duration than one As it was said that the spirit of the statute was repugnant to tho idea that one board of directors by contract wholly to be performed in the future can divest future boards of the powers to select teachers and make contracts therefor and indirectly take from the people all the advantages to be derived from annual In regard to tho duties of it may be said that it is the teacher's duty to instruct and govern u school and thoy must conduct themselves according to a high of Tho contract is based upon that will to teach and moral character suited the will perform all the duties of them by law observe all the rules and regulations properly enacted by tlie school It may he - said as a of are Invoice season is at hand we will make Special Prices on all Winder Everything Nothing is from the most expensive to the our store and see the great reductions of be sold at half their In and Scarfs we have a few left and we will not carry them over if price will sell In Flannel Dress Goods we have an elegant line and they must sold as we do not expect to carry any Winter Bring in your Produce and Same as Goods Fhone 4, ordinary attention to duties will comply the It is provided by section 27B2. that the school board may by a majority vote discharge any for inattention to partiality or any good after a full and fair investigation made at a meeting of the board held for that at which the teacher may be to be present and make allowing him a reasonable time The teacher is also by Code section 278'J, to keep a daily register among other the name or number of the tho district and county in which it is the of each scholar and the branches taught and that a certified copy of the at close of the be filed by the in the of of the regard to the question as to the duty of sweeping the school house and building the lire which is required of a great many it is my opinion that no service can be required teacher unless it is so stipulated in the unless perhaps custom or usage might become almost a settled it would seem that no or considerate director or board of directors would require of teachers the performance of this especially when so many young women are engaged in public If a teacher can be required to form this it seems but proper and right that additional compensation be granted to them for this In to the teacher's authority to establish rules and Code 2772 gives that power to the board of that they have tho power of prescribing the course of study for tho schools of the corporation and make rules and regulations for its own and of tho and and require the performance of duty by said not in conflict with and said rules and but in the or if tne board of directors should fail to provide any rules or regulations for the proper government of the the law will presume that they have delegated such powers to the and he may establish such rules as may be reasonable and not in conflict with law or ofany rules established by the As to what is a reasonable rule it will bo to Our supremo court in the case of Burdick vs. 31st lays down this Any rule of the school not subversive of the rights of children or or in conflict with humanity and precepts of divine which tends to advance the object of the law in establishing must be considered reasonable and In regard to this it seems that like it a multitude of For at times emergencies that require prompt action on the part of the and a little common sense t I I'M 11 t I I liave the and Selected Patterns and stock all tlie best things from the manufacturers in and u.s before you Drug and but 1'.:; Ilio best ut home or Wo Ko lip to to 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