Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 130, 5 April 1912 — Page 8

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THE VitWS OF AN EX-PEDAGOGUE

THE RICHMOND PALLAIUU3I AND SUN TELEGRA3I, FRIDAY APRIL 5, 1912.

! HEARD IN RICHMOND

BY ISAAC L. TOTTEN. ' It was one of those drizzly days when the cold seems to penetrate to the very marrow of ones bones. We an ex-county pedagogue (a man) and the writer were sitting by a roaring wood fire with out dinner palls on our knees. All the forenoon we had been slopping about In the mud and Intermittent showers digging a tile ditch. - It was not any. easy Job nor a pleasant one under the conditions; we were both pretty much smeared up with black mud. In digging the ditch we had to use an old ax to chop through about a foot of frozen earth before we reached the soil that we could handle with a shovel.

fession; the wages Are no incentive for a man or woman of the Intelligence that we should have In our schools, to take up that branch of work. "I do not mean, by that statement that we do not have some teachers who are efficient; but there are a whole lot of them that are permitted to pass the examination in order to get enough teachers to fill the teaching

positions. Of course, the examinations are not a fair test of one's ability; because there are some teachers who can answer all the questions as easily as saying their A. B. C.'s; yet they haven't the least idea as to how to train a child's mind." "Then they don't all know as much about teaching as you do?" we ques-

! tioned. "We are sorry that teachers do

We experienced no difficulty in keep- j are many children who are bing neg. Ing warm while at work; because it ; lected becaU6e you haV quit the prowas a continual chop chop all the time, i fesgion We had t0 dodge a chicken

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a wagon wheel make in going from remarked you should be making rec-

your house to town? To another boy I jords for graphaphones.

. , I uon x you imns m i gave this one: Your father wants to j mucQ tommy fot connected th the run a string of tile across a forty acre 1 echool work and that the whole sysfield and he wants to start at the j tem should be placed on a more pracnortheast corner of the field and run jtical basis?" he asked. south one fourth of the distance, then I e replied that we didn't .haw ,ti

west one fourth of the distance, then south again one fourth of the distance, then west again one fourth of the distance, then from that point he wants to run the lias straight to the south west corner of the field; the field is square, how many tile will it take to run the line? "Those three pupils stood there and looked at me in blank amazement without making a mark on the blackboard. I asked them what the trouble was and why they did not go ahead

or whether it was necessary to do anything; because we had never been Inside of a school room In our life.

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tired. It was not a pleasant job from any standpoint on that day, unless it was from an appetite producing standpoint. "So you prefer this job to that of teaching a country school" we remarked to the ex-knowledge dispenser as we sat by the Are. "Do you mean sitting by the fire or doing the chop chop on the ditch?" he inquired with a somewhat amused expression as he looked at us out of the tail of his eye. "Sitting by the fire, of course," was our rejoinder; but he knew we meant the slopping about in the mud and rain on the ditch. "Oh, teaching school is all right; it isn't the worst kind of work in the world; but it don't pay enough," said he. "It takes nearly every cent that one earns while teaching to buy books, and to keep posted, let alone paying living expenses, but this ditching job pays as well as teaching and I don't have to pay out anything for books here, and I have work of this kind or other manual labor jobs that last throughout the entire year." "So you don't think that the teachers get enough pay?" we asked. "No, they do not, that is, according to, or in proportion to other kinds of work. It Is no wonder that we do not have better talent in the teaching pro-

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bone or we might have gone home minus an eye; because this ex- was noted for accuracy when it came to throwing erasers at the miscreant in the rear seat on the boys side of the room. "It wasn't only the money end of the teaching business that caused me to give it up I just simply got sick and tired of the whole business from Dractically every standpoint." He was

wound up now and would not run j fires

down until he got all of his ideas on teaching out of his system. "The parents don't seem to want to co-operate with the teacher, and the junk that is incorporated in the curri-

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ties. The policeman. Takes drunk men to jail.' "That boy probably knows when Holmes, Whittier, Longfellow and the rest of the pen pushers were incubat-

culum would make any pupil, no mat-j(j, an(j perhaps he don't, and maybe j observe and think for themselves and

ter how bright, know less when ne the dates were so jumbled up in his ' dump the date business and other su

ed much need of their thinking apparatus. "The answer to a problem don't mean much to me if it doesn't compel the pupil to use his head. The boy in that eighth grade had lived on a farm all of his life and didn't know the hight of a wagon wheel; but that boy is not an exception. At one of our institutes 1 talked on the subject of conducting a class in arithmetic and I told of my experience in handling that class, and do you know there wasn't a teacher present at the institution who could tell the hight of a wagon wheel. One teacher guessed that it was about

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leaves school than he did when he started." He always developed a grouch when he got to talking on this subject; but we didn't care how far he went ; because the kind of a day that we were having was enough to give any one a grouchy feeling.

xuc avia& i' vu . ........ . children think for themselves; all they

seem to care about is the memorizing of a bunch of dates or' the getting of an answer to a problem in arithmetic no matter whether they do any thinking when trying to solve the problem or whether they don't.

"What ought to be done is this:

Get the child to thinking for himself, afd cut out a lot of that superficial junk that means nothing whatever in

the mental training. If we want to do the most good in our school work we must come down out of the clouds a little and travel on the earth for a

while and even dig around a bit in the

earth.

"How much more of a genius is the boy who knows whether Longfellow was born on St. Patrick's Day or whether he was born the 4th of July in the year 1? than the boy who does not know the first thing about dates, but has a good idea of how to use the English language?" "Your question is mixed up a little, but we guess we catch the meaning. You must be getting rusty on your English." was our reply. "But to answer your jumbled question, we will say that the latter boy would get our money." "Of course he would, and mine too. The answers to some of the questions in the eighth grade examination recently show about how much good the kind of work the pupils get does them. "One of the questions was: 'Name the three highest county officers and tell briefly of their duties.' "A boy gave the following answer: 'The janitor. Sweeps out and tends the

head that he couldn't get the county j official question straight. It is quite ev- j ident that he didn't get the answer j straight anyway. I "I taught a school one winter that hd been taught the previous term by a young girl who was an artist, that is, a really and truly artist and no joking. I don't mean an artist in the teaching line, but one of these pencil and crayon kind. There were pictures of all kinds strung four deep clear around the room and half way back. The blackboard was covered with beautiful tiger lilies and roses, and tripods holding kettles over camp fires and most any kind of pictures that one could imagine. "The pupils were so much interested in drawing pictures that they didn't have time to get their lessons. I- suppose it was all right, but there are some things besides pictures in this world. Pictures are all right to feast the eyes; but they don't fill up other food requiring parts of the anatomy very hastily. Those pupils did something besides draw pictures when I got hold of them. The picture business is all right; but

there is something else to be learned j

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in the right kind of doses. "I told the eighth grade pupils to leave their arithmetic at their seats when the came to recite, and I had three of them go to the blackboard, and try to solve some problem that I gave them. To one girl in the class I gave the following problem: I have five average cows, and I sell the milk from these cows at the customary or present price that the milk men are paying for their milk, how much do these cows earn for me in one week? To one of the boys I said, how many revolutions will

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