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! BURLINGTON:
@wun SDA I: ::::;:::::::::::::::JANUARY IL, 1919.
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Repsrs Il Superintendent Of Public Inssruc,ien.
We conclude this week our abstract Of this inn
portant document. We make but few extracts, as
lr Benton's style 10 heavy. verbose and wanting N
precision, and the defects in the School System,
70 the consideration Of which the report is mainly
are Ne suppose, obvated in the new School
. Law. Mr. Benton recommends uniformity in the
uss Of school books, the study Of Astronomy in
coansxioa with Mattison,s AstronomicatMaps, and
provision for the education Of the colored popula-
tien Or Iowa.
organise law and medical departments In relation
the s73 physicians in our State, it is said that on
ly - Of them have evidence Of their qualification,
bend Mr. Benton expresses belief that similar state
of things exists in the legal profession. We hope
for the credit Of our State, that il be proven that
1.-The Superintendent has borne false witness to these
statements. n not, thank him for his candor and
\ boldnsss In making them. We hope that earnest
eofts will be put forth to elevate these professions.
Instead Of organizing literary department to the
University, we should prefer to have the State ape
portion The University Funds to the Literary Insti
tutisus in our state, established by private muni
cence, according to their number OF collegiate stu
dents, unless indeed, which would be preferabeth
Literary Department Of the University can be so or
ganixed, o has happily been done in Michigan, that
an thssffiends OF Education throughout the State
vim - willing to give up their private enterprises,
and unite their efforts in sustaining the State Insti
tutor.
Mr. Benton recommends that al school officers
should Be rad for their services and that their pay
should - fixed BY law; and that the school laws
should be published in bound volume. He repre-
SCENTS We pay Of Fund Commissioners, and the ex-
psnses Of alottng and appraising the lsh sections
siness Of the school fund is liable to arrangement
from its being in 50 many hands. He therefore adj
rises the creation Of the office Of State School Fund
Commissioner, with compensation of $4,000 per an
mum. He thinks that with this amount, that officer
could semploy competent clerk, and examine, al
lot, sppraise and sell the school lands in person. and
also loan the school moneys" To US this seems .
most impracticable proposition. The assignment Of
The management Of the school Fund to some other
d0icer, say to the Auditor of State. we regard as
highly important, but We do not regard it as practi
cable wise to dispense with the County Fund Conn
mfssioners. We think, however, that in ell cases
moderate compensatiens should be allowed them.
We hope hereafter, that the Superintendent will
devote his whole attention to the subject Of Educa
ton proper. It would be well for him to visit some
Of The best schools in our country, say those Of N
York, Philadelphia and Massachusetts,. The State
Of Ohio employed an agent several years since,
Prof. Stowe Of Cncinnat to visit the best schools
in Europe, and report upon their condition. He
shoul then deliver lectures throughout the State,
aking it his great object to awaken appropriate
Interest in Education among the people, and doing
al in biz power to kpeI up. We should be glad to
have him adopt some plan like that successfully
carried out By Mr. wyman in st Louis, under the
direction Of the School Committee Of that city, to
Introduce some Of the best teachers in the country
among rs. He should call frequent meetings OF
teachers, and hold Institutes for them In other por
tons Of our country the most enthusiastic interest
10 FELT in the subject sf Education. Inrinsically
10 beyond al question paramount to every other
subject which comes under the perview Of civil
government in our country. It's influence is organ
&c. i moulds and shapes every other interest. We
hope that the Superintendent will appreciate the
great and solemn trusts committed to him. The
fieads OF Education in Iowa are looking to him for
litAdlane earnest performance Of his high respon-
sibilities. In his next report, we hope he will be
able TO exhibit more nourishing condition OF our
ocAools.
Ne would call the attention OF our readers in Bur-
hngtsa and other large towns to another extract from
she Report In relation to their wants. We hope
they viii oct upon it's suggestions.
~ln each o. them we should have at least from
enc 70 three good school houses. BY this do not
mean school house In the ordinary acceptation
Of ~ term, but apssmsnest edice, constructed on
sAs Msse Improved plan, with different apartments,
% that the pupils In the primary and academic de-
partments may be separated and classified. The &C.
ademic department should be subdivided into male
and and female. In this way we would soon sue.
na1s seiasviss, which 10 certainly Of vital mpor-
lance. Thus many Of our most worthy citizens,
who are not able to incur the expense Of sending
their daughters TO other States to be instructed,
would have it in their power to bestow upon them
liberal education. The erection OF school houses OF
Mis- kind will cost from 81 500 to $4,000 EACH This
y considered st hrst enormous expense to incur
1or such object, and the conclusion is that much
cheaper class Of buildings will do for the present.
But Il should be borne in mind that il is
work, when once completed, the expense is not to
Be incurred again. The influence exerted upon the
minds 81 pupils provided with such edifce would
be almost incalculable. Men are prone to conform
themselves TO the objects which surround them and
this rule is less applicable to YOUTH than to
sons Of mstAre years. IT, for example, man, whose
moral and intellectual culture has been properly at
tended to, becomes the daily patron of brothe he
win soen retrograde, and become assimilated in
feelings and habits to the appearance. Of things around
him. On the same principle, youth, when thrown
together promiscuously in an uncomfortable, badly
arranged school house, will become familiar with
the daily scene OF confusion, and will gradually CON
form 20 it, and the old school house becomes an apo
ogy with both teacher and pupils for the absence Of
discipline. On the other hand when the rery hin,
n which they study, present hourly to their view
the great law Of nsdfnsss and order, they viii fee
Themselves morally obligated to make their conduc
correspond. Each school Of this class should bs
under the direction Of competent teacher as prin
cipa, with assistants whose qualifications anG com
psnsation should correspond with the duties Of tt
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