The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1851-11-29
Nix, the Pedagogue.

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ilme was "hen the schooihas'er was abroad.
ana curious were the lessons he taught FOR
$50 "A month and boarded round, the scholars
haa 'he advantage oi all he knew and herewith
school committees ana eillzens declared them.
serves "Peliecuy shti'heu' AM even ooasted OF
the superior educational advantages their chit
dreh eiD"yeu' Inc remembrance "i such 'each.
efS' however; Hve' now only N ,he memory OF
me oldest inhaoItah's' ior STATE Normal Schools
nave competed ignorance ana iAPudeHee 10 give
way before 'ne hiatch OF Improvement Inc
P'ys'ea' Is 10 iouger paramount nut inc mental
u t''e ascthu"h" 40 oe 'eacher now II Is req
u,Ste 'hA' 'he party nave, al ieast Rno"le1ge
OF us own mother tongue ana 'hat IN ms MODE
oi linparting instruction, the mind, not tho back
and leg' OF the pupil be acted upon, and that
books, not birch, shall be the medium.
Sue, the novelist, in his Ndttrc De Eco'e, of
tie Mysteries of Paris, has given good idea Of
the French lhysIcal master; and If We had lit.
Tie oi his ability, we should delight to show up
the American specimen that beat into US what lit
Tie OF education we possess Employed at brick
making all summer, and teaching only in the win
ter, when he could not work at his regular busl'
ness, and moreover taking into account, IN addl.
ton TO ms own limited requirements, the fact
that he taught upon the pay slcal system, togeth-
er with the knowledge that most of the boys
spent most Of their time in deyisng means to an
noy HIM, as an offset to the lnnumerable hng.
gngs ne gave them and the wonder ls not that
they learned so Little, but that they improved so
much.
Contemporary with our master, was one Simon
Nixon, or as he was better known, Isl Nix" 4
capital specimen Of the class above mentioned,
and whose frs! application TO be hired it Is our
intention to record.-Wuh the frame OF a COlos'
ssi nature evidently intended him for some me.
chanical employment, and with similar views his
father designed that he should succeed hun IN
the honorable trade that had made him and his
ancestors, for several generations. so justly ceIe
orated. 10 tins end, 81 was m early lie induct-
cd INTO fa!! communication with tn. cunning
"o'Sers III tHe art ana mysteries OF the tah
i"u' W"eie ne "oo'cu WIN B'e"' o'eO'. ui"i
"v v at'al"tU t''e age oi .mthy one "neu II was
al Nv once ui''oNereu mat MS CONSTITUTION was
quNe zoo "e'S"'o lOr such iAoo'ivu' e"Poy
nIen,' IL '"e hoH,s' 'e',He"4ar VI MS oe'eacS
H"u oce" Sp,Ae"' 'hc "o'u iaIS "ou'G nave eN
Ptsscn All 'le complains unrcI ""'e, no su,'e''
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"o'h was necessary anu sSi,oo',"eeP'ns appear
n's W Gonle nearest 70 us s'l'u'lu o' "'''' was
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Hynleg: 49,.
ae Iluh ue'ne ,. 10 pe "sNeG uP1n any 'NnG IN
p"'u'u' Ho s'''u io' nc c"lou'a'eu 'e cou'I give
"'eu' s"''''sc''on upon every s",yec" l"ei,'
s"u 'ne n"sGr' you wa oe hi'u enough 10 'e',
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landish name-reckon he couldn't he much-cal.
culate he was small account, any wav.' Finding
it was dead set on the Frencbman, he was ask
ed what he knew vbout Genera Jackson There
you've got me again squire. was the reply
why, consaru it, never heard there was any
such General, and am some military myself /
go to all the musters. aud I've seen General
Snow, and General Brown, and Genernl Smith
them are all the generals that ever come round
our way, and rather guess there ain. any such
feler as you speak on. Guess you're irving to
make me out worse then be-. Desiring the com
mttce to try him on something that would be
useful to the children, the examination in history
here rested, as the lawyer would say, and an at
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