mns.
If properly written they would be read with interest and profit by
multitudes of parents, and would throw much light on family government
and instruction.

(3.) By reading them in teacher's meetings. If half a dozen teachers who
are associated in the same vicinity, would meet once a fortnight, simply
to hear each other's journals, they would be amply repaid for their time
and labor. Teacher's meetings will be interesting and useful, when those
who come forward in them, will give up the prevailing practice of
delivering orations, and come down at once to the scenes and to the
business of the school-room.

There is one topic connected with the subject of this chapter, which
deserves a few paragraphs. I refer to the rights of the Committee, or
the Trustees, or Patrons, in the control of the school. The right to
such control, when claimed at all, is usually claimed in reference to
the teacher's new plans, which renders it proper to allude to the
subject here; and it ought not to be omitted, for a great many cases
occur, in which teachers have difficulties with the trustees or
committee of their school. Sometimes these difficulties have amounted to
an open rupture; at other times, only to a slight and temporary
misunderstanding, arising from what the teacher calls an unwise and
unwarrantable interference on the part of the committee, or the
trustees, in the arrangements of the school. Difficulties of some sort
very often arise. In fact, a right understanding of this subject, is, in
most cases, absolutely essential to the harmony and co-operation of the
teacher, and the representatives of his patrons.

There are then, it must be recollected, three different parties
connected with every establishment for education; the parents of the
scholars, the teacher, and the pupils themselves. Sometimes, as for
example, in a common private school, the parents are not organized, and
whatever influence they exert, they must exert in their individual
capacity. At other times, as in a common district or town school, they
are by law organized, and the school committee chosen for this purpose,
are their legal representatives. In other instances, a board of trustees
are constituted by the appointment of the founders of the institution,
or by the legislature of a state, to whom is committed the oversight of
its concerns, and who are consequently the representatives of the
founders and patrons of the school.

There are differences betwe