Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1906 — She Went Fishing. [ARTICLE]

She Went Fishing.

F. A. Cotton, state superintendent of public schools, in an address to the graduating class at Laporte, laid great stress on the 1 value of sympathy in the teacher for the likes and dislikes of the ' children. He illustrated it by an iucident in the experience of a young lady with rude boys who j had driven away several teachers i from a rural school. The worst one of the lot, the leader of the i gang, went off fishiug. on purpose ■to provke a conflict. She delayed even a reprimand for two or three days, but finally kept him after school and inquired as to the cause of his absence. To his surly rep’y, ‘ Went fishing. ’ she responded cheerily. “ How delightful. I like to fish. Can't you go on Saturday and take me with you ? ” The re salt was that the boy did the rest o' his fishiug out of school hours ; n 1 became a powerful assistant of the teacher in the school. The value of tact eauuot well be overestimated.