Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1853-01-27

thS TOoHl ueat anu ClcHnt MI ShhOuIh was
cOnten. tc let il go dirty. With Miss Locke
the children studied hard most Of the time
with Mr.. Sanborn they whispered hard all
the time.--ln looking upon the exercises as
conducted by Miss Locke. at our examination,
we were favorably impressed with the stiffness
which prevailed; in listening 10 the discordant
hubbub, Of Mr.. Sanborn's young disciples we
thought Of what an old poet has said:
"The earth and plannets in their course,
Move along with silent force;
The smallest chap that walks the footstool,
Makes more racket by jug full"
"Miss Lockc's children made rapid progress
up the hill of science. Mr. Sanburn's slid
down the same hill. In word, as Cisero
hath it, Miss Locke kept good school; Mr..
Sanborn kept no school at all. II is possible,
that Mr.. Sanborn if he would revise and cor
rect his notions of discipline, might yet become
successful instructor. We hope, however
that the experience of the past winter. may
satisfy this District, without further trial, that
the masculine gender is not the ony gender
belonging to nouns, and that when they geta
good female teacher il is for their interest to
keep her."
ave cannot stop to expatiate upon the per-
nicious effects in the arrangement of classes,
in the disturbance of recitation, in the actual
loss of mental dicipline TO the irregular schol-
ars themselves and in the disgust which they
acquire for school and all its exercises as
consequence of falling behind their more pune
tual classmates. The influence is evil and
only evil and that continually. We have no
doubt that it could be 10 great extent re-
nodded by parents. if they choose to feel
proper interest in the subject. If one half
the efforts were used in getting children into
our schools, which is used in getting voters to
the polls, few would be left to stroll through
the woods, or to loaf at corners Of our streets
to smoke and swear in bar-rooms, or to drink
and gamble in billiard saloons and tpling
dens 1t is true saying of the Latin Poet
"facilis decensus Avern" which being inter-
prcted, signilieth, the distance 10 perditon
from grogshop is short and all the way down
| bill The surest method of securing the
young from vice is TO keep them employed; ;
The employment most appropriate to them is
the pursuit of knowledge under the eye of a
thorough and efficient Instructor"
1--WE have examined during the year six in
dividuals, who proposed TO instruct in this
town. of whom we recommended five and re-
Ijected one. 1t must not be supposed, how.
ever, for moment, that every person who
can pass the strictest examination is fit to
manage a school 1t takes peculiar man to
be just the right sort of Teacher. lie is an
article compounded of various ingredients
such as you cannot ordinarily buy a. the a
pothecary's. As TO his intellectual qualiIica-
tions, his mind should be a fountain and not a
reservoir. His knowledge should gush up Of
itself and not have to be drawn up by wind
lass. He should be a man of engenuity and
tact, of various resources and expedients, and
not helpless creature of custom. rloding on,
day after day in the same old path like horse
in bark-mill He should be fresh in his feel
Iings and sympathies, and not petriiod post
of Medusa-his heart should be young in all
its pulsations, though his head may be as
bald as Elishas. Endued with courage
and resolution that knows no defeat,h he should,
like Dickens Raven, never say die He
should be Il man of the world as well as man
of books-familiar with human nature not
less than with Mtchell's Geography. He
should be a scholar of some breadth as well
as depth. knowing something more than the
. mere routine of daily study; and not man
whose half dozen thoughts rattle in bis vacant
; head like shrunken kernals in a bean pod
His mental store house should be filled with
the fruits of various and extensive reading, sc
that he need not be compelled to draw his il
, lustrations for the Recitaton-room from the
"Tales of his Grand father or from the treas
ures of last years almanac. In addition tt
this intellectual furnishing, he shonld be
I man of integrity, of moral recttude and puri
ty of character, imbued with the spirit of trutl
and wisdom. If, besides all this, the light o
, a Christian faith should raediate his scientf
and literary requirements, it would serve #
> give them brighter lustre; eveu MS "a LAM
set in an aabaster vase brings out in bolde
, relief and clearer expression the beautiful fig
u ures which may be sculptured upon it,
> "Lct the Common School Teacher posses
qualifications like these, and he can do much
:, =, perhaps more than any single individual 70
the renovation of human society. But
D. cannot do everything alone. and should no! b
;, condemned forother peoples, sins. He need
e the active cooperation of the parent and tn
e community. If, as is sometimes said, he take
&c the child as the sculptor takes the marbl
!, from the quarry. there is yet one importar
u difference; when the sculptor leaves bis wol
'e for rest or relaxation, the half statuar
q remains as he ief, it. But the pupil is neve
y found as he was left. The selfdeveopin
r. power of the subtitle element of life cannot b
II calculated by any rules of art Excresenc,
T. may burst forth from him in some evil hou
os which cannot be Clipped off with hammer an
u chisel. And then, too, other hands beside
D. the Teachers have been busy upon him
giving form to his plastic nature, Silent
and unobserved mysterious influences in Il
= street and by the fire-side, at MONDAY ar
~ ~ beneath the quiet stars. have been at wor
The character, which promised to reveal,
~ the beauty and symetry of its proportions {
u Appoll Belvidere has been touched by Il
w. Spoiler and has become Caliban OF mi
'e shaped ugliness.
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