Ella L Kelly Teaching Notebook

them to happen. Some people never have the barrier between the two put up. People are not conscious of equivocation. Imagination helps the memory. A skillful and unscrupulous lawyer will take a witness and talk to him until the time when the trial comes off when he will give evidence just as desired. Imagination beautifies a picture, mental pictures require it. When we see a picture it makes a certain impression, Now if we hear some one describe the same picture, the first thing we want to do is to go back, and look at it again. This shows the culture which the one person has above the other. It is the same way with us in regard to visiting places or reading books. We do not recognize their beauty until some one of more culture brightens our imagination. When a child goes to school the teacher makes it a point to try and quench out all imagination and come right down to business. The children lose it for awhile and regain it in after life.

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People are wiser now than they used to obe. Give children stories where imagination is developed. Of course let them understand that they are not true but may be called fun stories. In teaching two subjects (Geography and History). imaginaiton helps. If we talk (underlined) about a country it does no good. The teacher must present it to the pupill in a series of mental pictures. All geography and history is a story. It is the string on which the beads are strung.

The first four or five years of a child's life is perceptive. It learns many things from abstract memory. Children should be taught the thing first and then the reason. Memory is active in childhood so that those things which which require abstract memory should be learned then. There is the time to learn names of things, qualities, and the multiplication table. The imagination is then active. From ten to twelve the child begins to reason.

The best way to know a thing is to do it. Work of teacher: school keeping and school teaching

School keeping is that part of the work given to organization, discipline and control. School keeping consists in explanations and questions.

Ten teachers fail in keeping where one fails in teaching. A failure to keep school is seen before a failure to teach. We keep school from what we are. The power lies in the individual

We teach school from what we know. In consideration of individuals, no method will tell how to manage a school. It must be our own work to go straight, to be quiet, to discipline oneself and to use self control. The first thing we need is self control. The way to get this is to make oneself do what one ought to do. The two paths of "ought" and "want" sometimes diverge. It should be our aim to make them run together. The path of our best happiness lies in the midst of the path of our highest duties. We should be industrious, studious and prompt; have entire control of our feelings; never get angry or [ ?]. Never rebuke or punish a pupil while irritated. It is possible to attain this control. Another thing, we should control our risibles. If we find they must laugh be a leader in it. Drive them to it. One needs to feel perfectly at home before the pupils. Be as composed as veterans.

Professor Allen thinks it can be obtained all at once and gives us his own experience which will never be forgotten. He mentions his age, size, and bashfulness. He tells us how he boarded around, did not know what to say, and finally met a self possessed member of the profession. He wrestled with himself all night and came out victorious with the resolve that "what that man can do I can." It is a wonderful thing. Pupils admire self possession. They quickly detect these things. Teachers hae the name of being conceited. That is all right while in the school room. Outside of that it is very desirable to have a little reserve. Before the school, never admit anything against yourself. In school obtain the mastery and keep it. A pupil will not admire a teacher who is forever rebuking, fretting, worrying and fussing. If the teacher tells a boy "he is the worst boy he ever saw" - he will believe it. Of course then he will be bad so that you will not tell an untruth.