Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard., 1853-01-26


They should maintain the dignity and respectable
ty of their responsible calling; and while showing
their respect for it they will induce others to
respect it. They should have public examinations
and they and the committeeman should manage
that these public exhibitions become occasions of
neg hborL ood importance. and be attended by auden
ces Of ladies and gentlemen This will be great
point gained and committeeman, parents and uar
dains should it that there such public
cises. and that there should be them such rehear
sails and performances calculated TO interest the
public, create lively emulation among tho puPils
and to test the management and intelligence OF teach
ers. Young persons. of both sexes, without means,
should be instructed in the Importance of making the
busines of teaching a proteSSi0n
There many ingenious young men in North
Carolina who hire themselves as laboreIs for 5, 6,
and dollars per month; and their only hope OF ad-
vancement in life is to accumulate, by slow degrees
il this wdy sufficient purcease small farm.
Some get discouraged and move TO the Wesi-some,
from associations an other causes, fall into bad hab
its and become hrelings for life, without fixed
homes or interest In society," and others labor hard
and never reach the independent position which they
sat out to gain. Many of these-many OF the unfor-
tunate children OF necessity who taken up and
bound the highest bidder, might easily qualify
themselves for teachers in the Common Schools; and
while teaching others could still be learning them
selves, earning 90 and 25 dollars per month"; esab-
fishing characters of respectaby and influence, and
enabling themselves at last purchase farms which
they could manage, and still teach Common Schools.
There are also many viruous girls doomed, they
suppose, to hard and uubecoming manual labor to
gain very humble living; and great numbers Of
these actually work In the fields for and dollars
per month.
All such should know that the State of North Car
olina has made bountfu provision for them that it
has opened work house suited to their delicate ma
tuTes and in which they make five times as
much as they can earn by their hands in any oher
calling. These make the best teachers for young
scholars and new beginners; and they teach
awhile, and 90 to higher schools, ard thus by means
o. rec schools Mi nod
ladies'
In the few neighborhoods where this matter is un-
derstood ii has created entirely and more ac-
tive and healthy interest in Common School sys-
TEN and if it understood everywhere the cause
of popular education would assume ni0re promising
aspect.
l earnestly appeal. therefore, 10 all the officers of
the system-to all good teachers, and to all ;good
citizens TO give more attention than they have done
TO the operations Of our system-io see that it is
carried with spirit, and that il is made TO accom-
c0mplish all that il is capable of doing. Ia il is the
germ of immense resuts-and if faithfully executed,
will certainly be increased in means of usefulness,
and in time become of the no6Ipei iInsiilutions
the face of the earth. 1t needs but the sympathy and
the active cooperation of all and surely in view of
the glorious results to be obtained every friend of
North Carolina and every friend of humanity will
contribute the lille that is asked.
Let all who wish well 10 the cause, show that thew
in earnest; and will answer for it, the Common
Schools Of North Carolina will become the prlde the
glory and the greatness of the Stale
In conclusion, will add that | shall in time if nv
life is spared, visit all the counties of the State
will give notice 10 the County Chairmen OF nv in
tended routes, and hope 10 meet at the county
many Of the officers Of the SYSTEM teachers, and
friends of the attend.
In the mean time may be permitted 20 hope that
the agents of the system will report me as pune
ruay and fully the nature OF things will permit;
and that the friends of the will every ywhere
strengthen my hands, and chee rfnIIy co-operate in
the building up of this, the great Hope OF North
Carolina.
My address will be Greensboro. or Raleigh
e. II. WILEY,
General Superintendent of
Common Schools.
December, 1852.
P.S. new pamphlet of the Common School
Laws, with explanations, FORMS and general recon-
Inendalions, prepared by me, and examined and APP
proved by the Literary Board, has Just gone press,
and will be printed speedily possible large
edition is required and il will therefore require
time get it out; and it is ready the
Chairman of the Boards of County Snperintendents
in each county will be furnished with copies for each
member of the different Boards, for each committee
man, each member of the examining committees and
for the Clerks of the Courts.
* Editors of papers of North Carolina, friendly
to the cause OF education, respectfully solicited
TO publish the above.
THE SIMPLICITY OF GREATNESS. We have often
been led observe that The Pervading characteristic
of genuine greatness is humility. The truly great
all his wisdom there is pedantry, with all his vr-
ue there is prudery with all his wealth, there is
no boasng display. His speech is simple wise;
his life understanding pure; and his habits all
marked by plainness rather than by pretenton. The
innate nobility of the truly great mind the
pomp and preence which pass for greatness with The
vuI gar and undiscrimiRating multitude. The practic-
ed dignity of menthe studied preciseness of speech
the decorum which seldom smes-the gra vity
which never Jess-these paIpable ndices of assumed
greatness and held in contempt by the really great
man. He is always simple and natural-his lam
puage unadorned, and his manners unaffected. Not
| the Iaborer in his poverty is humbIe-no the
unuored child in his purity unconstraned. No
man is beneath his love and sympathy and he fears no
abasemeat from association with those whose social
rank is less conspicuous than his In his inter-
course with his fellows he betraysa conscious
ness of his superiority. He has reverence for vir-
tue in rags. and quick dscernment OF worth in OBJ
scurity. His veneration for manly character is
impusivey shown but he has respect for the con-
dtions of birth and ortune and oIeraton for that
mushroom greatness which grows out Of iIlnstrious
mems graves, for that which is more willing
ly recognized, springng from crowded Golfers.
In the worlds estimate of men, the pretentions of
ignorance, and the opinonative pride of little learn
ing, pass for than the ostenatious requirements
of knowledge and the effronery of conceit wins the
distinction due to shrinking merit The world re-
members that much preence is the nallible sion of
slight possession and that the elements of greatness
! in human character spring up beneath the shadows
of life, and shun the glare in which arrogance thriv
| The person who by genius, or shrewdness, or good
! fortune, has attained position above his fellow men,
and seeks constantly to impress upon observers the