The daily union., 1852-11-02
Democracy Of science, NO. 20.
Bs JOSIAH HoLBaooK.

Bg JOSIAH HoLsRooK
No established operations in human society make so
small returns for outlsys 10 tme money, and effort,
school systems. The is plain. They place the
~alerwheel the stream requiring the water TO be
oeat upon the wheel before il moyes-with the slight In
TO the teacher that when he stops beating The
wheel stops moving. The simple fact is. that school
systems DO violence to the unchangeable and glorious
laws oi our Creator. rendering penalties in form in
evitable Abortion, iruitless effort s common pen
atty OF dsobedenee the divine law in the training oi
young muscle, mind, and soul Rowdyism is another,
and al THIS time in this country and threatening
penalty IL is fixed and almost universal law OF our
Creator that strength is the result OF exercise not only
IN muscle, mind and soul, but in the vegetable
creation An oak, butfeted by the storms of hundred
winters, is a stronger, durable oak than shell.
Tered from winds, rains. and SHOWS.
sa selieyident truth that for 'trainng up children
IN the way they should co. all the faculties with which
their Creator has endowed them bountfuy and so
wisely must be brought into exercise and exercised
eonnexon with each other, directing the whole OF this
combined exercise TO the high and holy purposes OF their
creation. The harmonious exercise OF all the human
faculties, applied TO the divine purposes of human exist
ence, so plainly implied in training up children in the
way hey should 60 as not to permit doubt in the mind
oil any rational being
Ii lis equally evident that school systems prevent this
general and harmonious exercise OF muscle mind and
SOUL and that their very PARTIAL meagre exercise is not
directed at best very poorly directed the exalted pur
poses of human existence little FIVE years old girl,
being asked what she did al school, replied promptly,
correctly, and graphically, {" say and B, and sit on
bench" Those doubling the positions above taken may
explain in their way how sitting on bench
sysem train vigorously and hanonously the greatly
varied human faculties and, especially apply those faoul
ties TO the purposes Of their creation.
/ Knowing, producing. recprocang. the three great
purposes of human existence To know, TO produce,
Il n ~
man soul The qualification OF these desires is human
happiness II is hence simple truth that institutions
4 expressly designed for the formation Of character, and
preparation for future vocations should aim especially
provide for the harmonious exercise OF all the facul
ties, directing all 10 the purposes of existenceknow
ing, producing, Tecprocatng.
As words are the signs OF ideas, not ideas them
Selves and books the Instruments not the fountains OF
knowledge, book lessons do and crafty
that desire OF knowing, ardent in every young mind
As words, the signs OF ideas, acquired only by their
connexion with the ideas they represent attempts al
Learning words by repetition must also prove abo-
tive; they do prove abortve They than abor
tive; they do lasting and rreparaSe injury TO the nhe
rent character of mind-bluRt lis desire of knowing.
Producing, still more than knowing if possible. is pre-
vented by school systems. What can be produced by
muscle, however powerful and eager for action while
the principal virtue OF that muscle is 10 keep suF-
barely permitting the active young being possessing it 10
look at book-not for knowledge. but the signs of
knowledge and those signs learnt, from the absence
OF the ideas connected with them.
4 Thanks be to public sentiment, 10 sense, and
10 humanity that such nroads already made upon
this anti knowing, antiproducing system insure
an entire and radical change, by making il both knowing
and producing Black boards have very extensively taken
the place OF books changing The sitng bench" sys
ten into producing exercises, alike To the
lief the entertainment and the instruction OF the pupil
IN srhna
is not only permitted but provided for every pupil The
fret day he the school Connected with drawing
muplied objects OF nature and ART, collections OF naa
raj history in very oppor,uney. Ia places
every school and every family is provided by the hands
OF their members with specimens OF nature and art To
an which few OF pupils prepare their
own instruments OF instruction, gratifying in the highest
degree the desire both OF knowing and producing
knowing by producing.
The desire OF reciprocaing, early and strongly mani
Testing itself deeply planted in the human SOUL is both
pre- vented and crushed by school systems An anti pro-
ducing system almost OF course be nos-reeproca-
ting as il furnishes nothing to recprocale in This
principle OF eyclusveness hitherto prominent feature
in schools. with that Of anil producing rapidly yield
ing the polic aud more noble principle OF recp-
Erocaion. Indeed enlightened generous recprocation
exhibited in "woRLD's FAlR" "FAIRsr all over the
world, and in great muluudes OF nsmeless forms, is
perhaps The strongest. certainly the most dgned and ele
waited, feature OF The present age No fairs which have
been be instituted richly fraugh, with pleas
uts knowledge, production, or recprocaton "scHoL
Ans FAIRS" They now in extensive operation, and
a, no distant day must form prominent part. and
probably the SOUL, OF school systems These, when
connected through The entire county, all concentrating
al our national metropolis will enable each ef the hun
dred thousand American schools, also OF The six mil.
lions OF families, TO help and be helped by all the rest
Governor Wright states, in letter the Indiana State
Sentinel, that he shall not appoint senator u 6 the
place OF Gov Whicomb. deceased but await The action
lof the legislature