Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1880 — Educational Department. [ARTICLE]

Educational Department.

Edited by D. B. Novels, Ou. Superintendent. Institue at Union school house, Marion township, Saturday. One week from Saturday, special examination at the school bouse in Rensselaer. The “Certificates of Honor” will not be sent to the teachers for presentatloOo their “perfect pupils,” as some suppose. They will first have to be iesued by order of the County Board of Education, which order cannot be made until their meeting in May. They will be presented by th« County Sup’t in such manner and at such time and place as he shall hereafter designate. Teachers in making their final reports will please place a star opposite the names of those who have lost no time for the whole term.

Don’t Disappoint Them. Teacher, do you suppose your pupils would like to be disappointed at the coming fail? Ask them. -If they are wide-awake, ; bright-eyed child red, instructed by a live, public9|Hiited tgacher—one who has the welfare of his pnplils and the eleva" tionof Ins profession alhefirt—they will say yes. But doubtless the reply to a selfish, narrowminded school-fc«per would be no. The answer you will get depends largely upon your own zeal and industry. If yoji have thrown the very fire of your enthusiasm into your winter’s work, and taught your pupils that manly self-reliance and courage which overcomes obstacles however stubborn, they will be glad to make any undertaking. Sincerely, teachers, do 1 desire that all the schools be represented. It will cost yon nothing to make the display but a little effort. That is cheap, you know. The more of it we expend the stronger we are. I have given you the greatest latitude possible in the preparation of yonr work. Anything meritorious executed as school work will be received. In arranging it observe the instructions heretofore published as nearly as possible. Common foolscap paper is good enough to prepare your work on. Keep it neat and clean, and write with pen and ink. In short let us all do oaf best and then come to the County Fair this fall and suprise ourselves by seeing what a collective effort can do.