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KILN CONSOLIDATED HIGH SCHOOL—1918-19.
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BY MRS. SESSIA. DOBY,
1st Assistant High School.
The great problem that the teacher in the High School Department of a Consolidated School has to solve, is “How to keep grown girls and boys in sc’ ool.”
We have used the following method, and, must say, have been quite successful.
Show the pupil the utility of the things you teach—else study will seem to them abstract, barren and hard.
One must always point out to the grown boy and girl a definite and pleasant end, to sustain them in their work, never attempting to compel study by hard and unreasoning authority.
Never assume, except in extremity, an air of command; it hardens. You will close their hearts and sear their conscience, without education will be fruitless.
Make them love you; let them be at ease with you, and not afraid to let you see their faults. To reassure them, be indulgent to those who wear no disguise before you. Appear neither astonished nor irritated by their evil propensities, on the contrary, give them .sympathy, show them the path.
Often it is a question only of not appearing to watch the children, of busying one’s self in their vicinity while or. duty, in-
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*piring them with trust, replying clearly, intelligently, to their questions, taking advantage of their natural disposition to acquire, correcting them patiently when, they make mistakes or do wrong.
This, we m;ust never lose sight of, all true education and instruction should, therefore, at every moment, in every demand and regulation, be double-sided—giving and taking, firm and yielding.
But between the two, teacher and pupil, between request and obedience, there should invisibly rule a third something to which both teacher and pupil are equally subject. This third something is the RIGHT, the BEST. No education can reach its highest development until those having it in charge, regard it from that standpoint.
Last, but not least, impress the growing boy and girl with the idea of self support. Give them a helping hand to find employment on Saturday, so they may have spending money of their own; they will thus be taught self-reliance, be better satisfied to remain in High School. With these principles deep rooted they wiil be willing to try College, even if they have to earn their board.