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JOURNAL OF EDUCATION

DEVOTED TO EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS THROUGHOUT THE SOUTHWESTERN STATES. Entered at the Postoffice at Nashville, Tennessee, as second-class mail matter.

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Dependent widows and parents now dependent whose sons died from effects of army service ily and successfully prosecuted, address are included. If you wish your claim speed

JAMES TANNER,

Late Commissioner of Pensions,,
Washington, D. C.

Southern Teacher,

A practical monthly journal always full of choice Educational food for earnest teachers Established in April 1877. H. D. Huffaker (Supt. of Schools) Editor and Business Manager. $1 a year with prenium. Teachers Monthly report Cards to Parents printed on heavy card-boards 50 cents per 100. The Journal and Southern Teachor both one year for $1.25.

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NEW BOOKS PUBLISHED IN 1891

Differential and Integral Calculus, by Prof. George A. Osborne.

Greek Prose Composition, by Prof. F. E. Woodruff.
A Commercial Geography, by John N. Tilden.
Rudimentary Ethics, by Dr. Geo. M. Steele.
Algebra Tablets, by Prof. Frederick Anderegg.
Health Lessons for Beginners, by Supt. O. M. Brands.
Outlines of Rhetoric, by Prof. J. H. Gilmore.
Scott's Marmion, by Mary Harriott Norris.

Macaulay's Earl of Chatham, by W. W. Curtis, A. M.

Johnson's History of Rasselas, by Dr. Fred. N. Scott.
Six Place Log Tables, by Prof. Webster Wells.
Number System of Algebra, by Dr. H. B Fine,
English Versification,, by Rev. James C. Parsons.
First Lessons in Language, by Southworth and Goddard.
Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, by Prof. E. Miller.

College Prose Composition (Part II.), by Walter Miller, A. M.

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Southwestern Journal of Education.

VOLUME X.

NASHVILLE, TENN., APRIL, 1892.

No. 2.

said that she was impressed with the fact that in each school

Southwestern Journal of Education. she had seen, the children and the teacher seemed to be on

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the best of terms with each other. There was a cheerful compliance on the part of the children will all requests from the teacher. She thought this was due largely, if not entirely, to the manner and voice of the teacher fn speaking to the children.

We know from observation that a conversational tone of voice is more effectual in securing attention and order in a school-room than one that is loud or shrill or grating. But, going back to our subject, we believe that the majority of children in the schools go about their tasks cheerfully. And this is due to the teacher's influence more than to the children's natural love for study. The ambitious teacher will present her work in such an attractive way to the pupils that they will take great delight in doing the various things which are required of them.

METHODS IN PENMANSHIP.

PROF. D. C. MURPHY, PENNSYLVANIA.

THE most shameful thing that has recently been done by a board of education, so far as we know, was the employment of detectives to spy upon St. Louis teachers to ascertain as to their moral habits. A teacher should be, and usually is, above suspicion.

THE School interests of Texas are somewhat agitated over the proposition to adopt a uniform series of text books for the State. Gov. Hogg in his message to the Legislature now in session recommends the passage of a bill to establish a universal series, but it is opposed by many of the best school men in the State.

We are in receipt of the Annual Report of the Board of School Committee and Superintendent of the Salem, Mass., Schools. For this we are indebted to Dr. Wm. A. Mowry. A very attractive cover is by no means its most interesting feature. It contains much that is valuable and interesting.

THAT is a most proper and noble thing that Mr. Leslie Stephen proposes in the London Times. It is that English men of letters head a movement for the erection of a monument to James Russell Lowell. A monument to Longfellow stands in Westminster Abbey, and Mr. Stephen urges that Lowell has even more claim on the affection of Englishmen.

ARE CHILDREN HAPPY IN SCHOOL?

The above question was suggested after talking with a teacher who had been visiting at several of the public schools of this city.

In speaking of the different buildings she had visited she

PART II.

As a general thing the time allotted to writing in a school will indicate the importance attached to the subject. When we consider how little time is generally given to the subject in our schools we are surprised that any real progress is made. One hour and a half a week is a fair average. If the schools are open or in session twenty-four weeks, that would give thirty six hours, or six days of six hours each, in the whole year in which to learn penmanship. How can we expect anything to be done in this branch of common school studies in so short a time? Writing does not come intuitively nor by hap-hazzard and desultory efforts; it requires as much time, study and practice as any other branch among the common school studies. Writing is the index to the whole method of instruction, since it is the constant medium in so many studies and examinations. The question arises, how shall we interest the little folks in writing and what are the best methods of instructing them in this branch? Child ren like to talk, and next to talking comes this wonderful sign language-writing. Little folks must write often to learn to write, as they talk often to learn to talk, and read often to learn to read. How ready we are to prompt them when they use wrong expressions in talking, or mispronounce words in reading, so that they will not fall into bad habits. They need the same guidance on the teacher's part when they write; their position at the desk must be watched; they must be guarded against wrong pen-holding just as they are taught to guard against incorrect expressions when talking. They must be taught to be accurate in making written signs just as in using spoken ones, Written language should follow

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