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KILN CONSOLIDATED HIGH SCHOOL—1918-19.
ly growing; watch their development, learn about their requirements, their history and uses. In doing this we hope to have the work ■correlated with every other school activity; the language work, the ■drawing work, number work, etc.
Being interested as I am in the success of our school, I promise rny support, w.th the other educational workers, to build an institution that will Lake tare of our needs.
TRANSPORTATION.
KILN CONSOLIDATED HIGH SCHOOL when solid rubber wheeled buses replaced horse and mule drawn wagons for transporting students to school, during the terra 191S-I919. Photo courtesy of Jeanne Williams. “We were proud of these buses" said Mrs. Williams.
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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 school."
We have used the following method, and, must say, have been quite successful.
Show the pupil the utility of the things you teaclv—else study will seehi to them abstract, barren and hard.
One must always point out to the grown boy and girl a definite and pleasant end, to sustain thein 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 oympnthy, show them the path.
Often it is a question only of not appearing to watch the chil-
■	Iri'n, (if busying one’s self in their vicinity while on duty, i:i-


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