Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1850-05-02
For The Iefersonian Republlcan.
Educatt8n.

" Is ne handsome! VIC! iouhgs Mar
riedl" .S,nplei" is he colegian!" "A Doc.
tor I" "A Lawyer" "A Student Of Divinity 7"
Born in New EnglanGt" "Wha; persuasion!"
Persuasion New England means religious be-
lief) lis he tall I" Short Stou, bul,!'
"Slenderl'' "Genteell" "Is he wonder
what his Rules II bel" So goes the world as to
Teachers at first After time: "He hasn't Dig
nifty enough Hes partial" He's too cross
Hes too easy" "He punishcs too much" "He
lets EN- do as they please" He wants 10 get
round parents and children" "He's selfish and
ambitious" Hes too independent" mo, he
isn't independent enough "IIe's too religious
He's too Indifferent to religion altogether
He's too tall, or too short" TOO handsome, or
too ugly" His manners ale TOO gross or TOO re-
fined" His dress is too much neglected, or it
is the subject Of too much care" Well, well. bu,
the Rules of the School, the Rules" | have
a book Oh School teaching, recently published in
New-York. So, Mr.. Editor, (not to be unreason-
able on this su5ecD will quote not old fashioned
Rules, but those OF modern date. This Book con-
tains very many Rules, or Regulations of what it
calls the best conducted Schools in New England.
anu ihS1 puUuSueu tapieSSIJ pt Otuel
ers in framing Rules for their own Schools.
BOYS ARE REQUIRED:
To present pen by the feather end: knife, by
its handle; book, right side upward, &c. &c.
To write all requests on their slates and wait
ill called
To show two fingers when pen is wanted.
TIC be particularly vigilant when no Teacher is
in the hall (Hem! No doubt)
To rest the body on the left arm aoit,ie spelling,
&c. with about hundred more of the same sort,
for each School.
But these "Reguiations' are not enough so in
addition there must be string Of as many PRO
hibitions.''
BOYS ARE FOBIDpEN
To Use knife, except on the conditions pre-
scribed.
To write without using card and wiper.
10 study home lessons in school
To press their knees in sitting against form;
(such bench, desk, &c. If | understand this
weighty Prohibition,0: besides many other I'M
portant Prohibitions too numerous to mention -
But think these Rules and Prohibitions too
small potatoes, as New Englanders say, to take up
more space in quoting them. So these mus, be
truly excellent Schools. But wish to present
this subject in different light.
IL is true tnai we near sometimes mere anu lheIe
solitary voice, coming up as if from the grave
Of buried years, urging that 'our Schools well
enough as they are; that they as good as IN
times gone by. and having answered then, they
need no improvement now We must no, then
go forward But is the man 10 be found who
dares to demand that our movemen, shal! be ret
rograde For backward or forward we must GO
there is such thing standing still in the
OF Education Is Dead Immobiiy, then, uttered
dole(ully forth as from beneath the iron ribs Of
death, TO be our eternal cotckacorda
Is this the motto we would read as our State
banner floats upon the breezei Or if as all would
desire, to 60 on advancing in regard to ere-
ry other interest, should that of education. assum-
ing that others could be advanced without ii,-be
left behind: II it could be separated from others,
is this the first, the last and only one that is be
disregarded Let him who would advocate such
a policy at least Stand out from the way OF living
and moving man, if he will ~, hide himself from
their sight and companonship
Next | shall endeavor to demonstrate clearly
three things:
First, that the moral and social evils existing in
society depend, TO a great extent upon wrong
system of education.
Second. onr presen; system Of Eduratio0 Is
wrong, because it is not in harmony with Nature
il does not rightly develop the ply slcal, intellect
ual and moral nature OF man.
Third, right system of education will do this
will reform and lenovate the
world. p S. W
ITO be continued