Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1879 — A Good School Teacher. [ARTICLE]

A Good School Teacher.

For Tut Uniox. • Newton Township.—Mr. Paris, teacher es school No. 3, this town■f ship, is doing valuable work for the young minds of our district and neighborhood. He is not working for applause, but fur the good of his pupils and through them to benefit society. He is not like a young tree that is bent and twisted about by light puff's of wind, but has a mind of his own in regard to the duties of a true and faithful teacher which frivolous objections do not swerve. The end to be attained by the pupil is not only how to do a thing but to learn why it ought to be done and the benefits th at are to flow from it. When they see and understand for themsevles the general principles of a subject that knowledge is theirs and will ever remain theirs. It is not the teaeher that takes bis pupil over a great amount ofground that accomplishes most, but he that takes them thoroughly - and understandingly. The object is not to crowd young painds with the thoughts of others and meaningless words or names, but’it i« to teach them to think for themselves, and to present to them simple and practical examples to illustrate the. different facts, the words in the books not being sufficient far a clear and practical explanation to the child, By questioning his pupils ou the work passed over, their answers ebow whether they UTrdentwil'd ivoT »iw stiH-teft

in ignorance.

F. S. T.