Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1871 — The Sixth Annual Teachers’ Institute of Jasper county will be held at Rensselaer, commencing October 2d, 1871. [ARTICLE]

The Sixth Annual Teachers’ Institute of Jasper county will be held at Rensselaer, commencing October 2d, 1871.

1. Come to the Institute and stay with us. 2. Procure a Programme of the exercises at once by sending to your Trustee or to the Examiner and carefully study each subject before Institute week and preserve a written syllabus of your investigations. 3. Come, bringing your notes of preparation, with pencil and book ready to record new thoughts and suggestions. 4. Come, prepared with a legson, lecture, essay, declamation, recitation, reading, or other item of iuterest to communicate. 5. Come, resolved to ask, answer, teach and study. Coine and apply the best methods of tuition and management. \ (5. Como in a spirit of happy truth seeking zeal, ready \and willing to work for the mutual advantage of your fraternity, knd the cause of common schools. N. 7. Do not bring your text-mxdts, except for reference. Let your motto be—“ Learn to think, not to repeat.” The above from an excliango meets my approval.

S. P. THOMPSON,

School Eaminer.