The Quiet Hour

Northern Advocate, 11 January 1938, Page 2

The Quiet Hour

As with the beginning of the New Year, the commencement of a school year brings with it a host of new resolutions. Most boys and girls will have moved up into a new class, and will be very eager to start work on their new lessons, and to do their very best work in those lessons. Then there is the delight of greeting old friends, and of collecting your new books, and altogether the hrst days back at school are very jolly. But after a little while the joy of these days wears off. • Lessons don’t seem as good as they did, and certainly are not nice enough to spend time doing them at home in the evenings. So gradually ah those good resolutions of being attentive and working hard fade away.

There is only one way of learning anything, whether it is just a little school sum, or some more difficult task you have to do, and that is with patience and care. To be done well, your lessons must be worked at carefully and you must not become impatient if a sum is not right the first time you try it. More than anything else, keep to the golden rule of “not putting off until tomorrow what can oe done today.” This is an excellent little motto, and when you keep to it and do your tasks with a certain amount of liking for them, you will be surprised to find that they become very much easier.

If you find that after a few weeks of school you have forgotten your first good resolutions, and that your work doesn’t seem as exciting or as interesting as it did, then is the time to make new resolutions, and ones that you are very sure you do your best to keep.