PROF. E. L. ROSEBUSH
Principal of the Florence Schools and a Worker
AN ARTICLE EXTRACTED FROM THE PEABODY NEWS 1901
Contributed by Charmaine Keith (charmain@southwind.net) 26 August 1998

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PEABODY NEWS
1901

	The picture below is not of a "fine auld English gentleman."  As you might suppose, 
but of E. L. Rosebush, a fine young man of modern ideas and exceptional merit. He is a man 
of action and an earnest student. By close application and earnest study he has acquired an 
education, which with his natural abilities fit him for much higher positions than he 
occupies as principal of the Florence schools. But he believes that a place well filled is 
but his simple duty and gives his best efforts to doing good work in Florence. He is 
appreciated there and has now completed his second year in that school, with prospects of 
being called again.

	The News asked him to contribute an article for this edition. With modest apology 
for its brevity and lack of preparation he submits the following, which contains some ideas 
worth careful investigation:

	Notice the tender plant that ventures to raise its head against the cold winds of 
April. How it sways with each unkind gust; but between cold rain and truing days come 
sunshine and balmy breezes. Finally it has itself disciplined to the changes of weather. 
Weather, too, has become more kind and the tender plant is now a grown flower, strong in its 
beauty and conscious of success. Life is a struggle. The flower combated the external. The 
pupil aided by the teacher must fight the internal in order to command the external. 
Teachers, talk plainly with you pupil about the struggles that you have gone through. Many 
of your pupils are now where you once were. Early let them see that bad conduct is simply 
lack of self-discipline, and that you sympathize with them. Who are you that you may frown 
and scold and worry and say sarcastic things to your pupils for then failure to measure up 
to your exalted standard? Do you expect a pupil from ten to sixteen years of age to acquire 
what you have been collecting for thirty years? I believe in the discipline of kindness and 
fairness. Kindness is not effeminate, mistaken inactivity; it is often stern reproof of some 
times a good switching. Discipline a pupil must have. You see that he gets it.

					E. L. Rosebush,
					Florence, Kan., May 20, 1901 

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