The Student, Volume 2, Issue 5, February 1890

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Vol. II.
February, 1890.
No. 5.
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A Monthly Paper, Published by the Students of the Mankato
Normal School-
Managing Editor,      -    -    D.  R.  STOCKLEY.
ASSOCIATE   EDITORS.
Editorial Department,       -       -      Miss Julia Hyland
Literary Department,   - -       \
Local Department,   -
Exchange Department,
Business Department,
teaching,   even though they may  yet  need
much training in the three R's.
The Normal schools have nothing to fear
from criticism.    From   their earliest history
in Minnesota they have been   favored   with
intense opposition.    It has kept  them   and
j Miss Hattie Nobie.'  their  management singularly free  from  de-
1 Frank Dean. i
j Miss Grace Clark,  parture   from   the purpose  for   which   thev
j Miss Maud Hays. J
1 Clayton Kennedy,  were endowed.
Burt Weld
Miss Anna Porter.
John K. McBroom.
They   ask only  that faithless  ones  shall
come and see.    Their faculties and student's
are optimistic aed look   forward to the time
MattS6* at thG Mankat° Postofflce as Second-class  when there will come to our teachers a truly
professional  life, a life  of worthy   purpose,
TERMS:—75 cents per year.   Single copy, 10 cents.
Advertising rates made known on application, to the
Managing Editor.
^rUTOHIilTy.
We are informed   with much bluster that
noble aspiration and ample fruition.
The point we wish to make regarding the
the Normal schools as at present conducted,        .. , e        ,.       .
r ' | matter and manner   of  reading done in our
are not, but ought  to   be,   "strictly   profes-', , ,   .,   . ■•  ,    ,
& ' i horary is that it lacks system.
sional schools." TT  , ,- ,. , ,
unless reading on   lines marked out by a
The same authority   a   little   further  on,'        ,      c    A a  •. j     ,,
\ _ teacher tor definite ends,   there seems to be
affirms  that our vocation is and will  be for1,- .,      ,- ,, ,
;little disposition   on the part of our pupils
some time to come a professionless one.    It;,. ,     tT       ,.      .   4,        ,      ,
r . to   read   other   than in that   desultory   way
is sometimes hard to   figure  in   the  double     ....
which  does not cultivate a   taste tor   good
role of being consistent and at the same time  ,.
. . j literature.    We want to say as emphatically
a critic
I as good taste will permit  that reading in an
We teach as we have  been   taught  to  a,   .   , .    ,
I aimless way is the direct  foe of real ednca-
great extent.
Improvements in methods  of teaching is
slow and cumulative and  along  the line of
tion.
We say further, after due reflection, that
it is part of the evidence of scholarship and
culture to know what and how much as
well as when to read.
generations of patient, enthusiastic and  experienced   workers   who have   each  added
their mite of accomplishment to a   business
that  will wait some years yet  before  being       The pupils of any school, so   far  as get-
rightly classed a profession. j ting on is concerned, quite   naturally divide
Till then it will be safe ground   for   Nor  1 themselves into three classes,
mal schools to build upon, in receiving  un-       The first and, happily, the most numerous
to themselves that body of young men and j of these are the ones who on entering school
women whose inclinations and ability incline j fall into form and seem   to   find   their  way
them   to   attempt  the  serious  business  of along by native instinct.