Allentown High School - Derrick Yearbook (Allentown, NY)

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I e developed, In their natural order, the faculties of the child’s mind. Present work with this aim in view. 13. Remember it is what you get the child to do, not what you do, that developes the child. 14. Teach words to young pupils by developing their meaning; then give the term if necessary. Prepare your plan in advance. 15. A little read several times is better than a great deal read once. 16. Haste, when it requires work to be passed over which is not thor- oughly mastered and understood makes waste. | 17. “Nothing is gained by having young children study their reading lessons; let them do this together with the teacher.” 18. Make work inductive as tar as possible. 19. “The art of questioning should be carefully studied by every teacher. Avoid questions which call for memorized answers. So frame all questions that they shall call out thought. A question should not leave a pupil on the same plane where it found him.” . 20. “Remember that the primary object of education is the cultivation of intellect, not the acquisition of knowledge.” 21. Dull pupils require the teachers’ greatest skill. Be patient with them. Distinguish between the child’s failure to understand your language and his inability to do what you require of him. 22. Remember that the reason some pupils are no older mentally at 12 than they ought to be at 10, is that their work has been too menchanical, requiring too little thought. 23. Remember that the mind grows only by exercise, that the child must exercise his own mind, that the teacher’s duty is to cause the child to be surrounded by the environment necessary for the production of this self-exercise. 24. The teacher, too, is responsible to a certain extent for the moral and physical, as well as the intellectual training of the child. The following from recognized authority may be considered with profit by every teacher: “Frobel, like Pestalozzi, holds that wherever there is development, there must be motion, activity—that development is only to be produced by exer- cise. A part, therefore—a large part—of education must consist in active, Mrs. J. Clark Dealer In General Merchandise Wells ville Steam Laundry Agency. Allentown, N. Y.

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BARTLETT HILL t General Merchants, Groceries, and Drugs, Dry Goods and ML- “ Notions, Boots and Shoes, Flour and Feed. Both Phones. • Allentown, N. Y. A:- 7 original endeavor, active, original work, which compels the child to use its own faculties. Education cannot consist in mere listening and imitation.” Herbert Spencer says: “Proper conduct in life is much better guaranteed when the good and evil consequences are rationally understood than when they are merely believed on authority. A dislike is contracted toward things which in our experience are habitually connected with disagreeable feelings.” SPECIAL RULES GOVERNING COURSE OF STUDY. All pupils will be expected to follow' a balanced course of study as re- quired by Regents regulations. Permiscuous selection of subjects by pupils cannot be allowed. First year High School work pupils must complete Bi- ology, 1st Year English and Algebra. Eighth year pupils may, at the end of first half term, try Regents examinations in Reading, Writing, Spelling and Geography, and in June will be expected to pass Arithmetic, Elementary English, Drawing, Physiology and 8th grade Hygiene before promotion to the Academic room. COMPULSORY EDUCATION LAW. Your attention is hereby directed to the recent compulsory education law relating to the attendance upon school of children between the ages of eight and sixteen years. Persons in parental relation to such children, who violate that law, will be subject to a fine not exceeding $5 for the first offense, and for each subsequent offense to a fine not exceeding $50, or to imprison- ment not exceeding 30 days, or to both such fine and imprisonment. Persons employing children between fourteen and sixteen years of age. contrary to the provisions of this law, are subject to a fine of $20 or $50. . Any district whose officers shall neglect to perform their duties with respect to this law, shall be liable to forfeit one-half the public money other- wise apportioned to said district. Therefore there remains no alternative for all the above mentioned parties but to comply with this law. Children fourteen to sixteen years of age may be employed if he can furnish a properly executed certificate. REGULARITY IN ATTENDANCE. We ask for the cheerful co-operation of parents and guardians in secur- ing promptness and regularity in attendance. The compulsory education