Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1872 — Valuable Suggestions. [ARTICLE]

Valuable Suggestions.

Tiite American Educational Monthly, of a recent issue contains the following interesting and valuable suggestions in regard to proper school discipline : f. No child should be allowed to attend school before the beginning of his sixth year. 3 The duration of daily attendanceincluding the time given -to recess and physical exercises—should not exceed four and a half hours for the primary schools; five and a half for other schools. 3. There should be no stui y required out of school—unless at high school—and this should not exceed one hour. 4. Recess-time should be devoted to play outside the school-room—unless during stormy weather—and as the time rightly belongs to the pupils, they should not be deprived of it except for serious offenses; and those who are not deprived of it should not be allowed to spend it in study; no child should ever be confined to the school room during an entire session. The minimum of recess-time should be fifteen minutes each session, and in primary schools there should be more than one recess in each session. - 5. Physical exercise should be used in school to prevent nervous and muscular fatigue and to, relieve monotony, but not as a muschlar training. It should be practiced by both teacher and children in every hour not broken by recess, and should be timed by nuisic. In primary by exercise, recess or singing. 6 Ventilation should be-, amply provided by other means than by. windows, though these should be used, in addition to special means, during recess and exercise time ;' V r ‘ '7. Lessons,should be scrupulously apportioned to the average capacity'of the pupils ; and in primary schools the slate should be used more and the book less ; and the instruction should be given as much as possible on tho principle of “object teaching.’’ ' 1