Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1880 — Educational Department. [ARTICLE]

Educational Department.

Edited by D. B. Nowels, Co. Superintendent. I believe there is no profession in which there is so much danger of a shriveling up in intellect and powers as that of teaching. I assign as a cause the fact that teachers are too apt to imagine that they have learned/all that there is to know.

There was a meagre attendance at the County Teachers’ Association last Saturday. Those who were present, however, were the prominent teachers of ’die county- Miss Bolles, Principal of the Remington schools, and Mr. D. M. Nelson, of Carpenter township, were present. Several excellent papere were read, some of . which will be published. This association is materializing and is destined to be a power in the advancement ts the teachers interests. It will do more than all things else to harmonize their efforts and concentrate their energies. In a short time all the live, industrious, public spirited, in a word, the true teachers will become members, active and earnest of this helpful organization.