isua-isnscatalog-1891-1892-076

Description:	INDIANA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. 75shall confer upon them, which diploma shall be considered sufficient evidence of qualification to teach in any of the schools ofthis State.Graduates who make application for diplomas under the aboveprovisions of the law, are required to produce certificates oftheir success in instruction and school management, and as tothe time taught, from county superintendents, township trustees,superintendents of graded schools of towns or cities or from corporation school trustees.By a rule of the Board of Trustees, satisfactory evidence oftwelve months successful experience in teaching, after completing the course of study, entitles the graduate to the diploma ofthe Institution.As a means of promoting still greater thoroughness on thepart of those neariug graduation from the school, the Board ofTrustees, by a recent action, requires, That all candidates forgraduation from the Normal School shall be required to hold acounty license to teach for a period of not less than two years said license having been issued within the five years next preceding the date of commencement for the given year. Or thatsuch person shall receive a grade in an examination conductedby the faculty, on the questions used in the county examination,that would entitle them to a license for not less than two years,if the examination were taken under a county superintendent.DISCIPLINE OF THE SCHOOL.The end of all school government and discipline, intelligentlyconceived and administered, is the rational self-control and self-direction of the pupil. This is to be the outcome in the pupil.The effort is made to derive all rules of government from theinherent nature and purposes of the organization itself. This isthe true basis of such rules from this alone they derive theirauthority, and not from the teachers will and utterance. Asystem of school regulations which aims only at arbitraryrestraint, without leading the pupil to order his conduct byclearly conceived principles of right doing, lacks the most essential educative qualities. The formation of oorrect habits ofthought and action—the development of worthy character—these are the true aims of school discipline. The discipline of
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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