Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-12-08
State Teachers Association.

one to discuss our present deficient school law ant
thus to prerere the way for forming strong public
sentiment III favor OF a speedy and wholesome
change We understand the Association will make
a strong effort to reorganzc our entire school sys
TEN, which will be presented to our Legislature, fo
their consideration, at an early day.
After public sentiment has demanded that all o
the children of fhe State shall be educated; after
suitable laws enactcd-convenient buildings erected
and proper organization of the schools undertake
en- to carry out this popular sentiment-the next
grave question for those to consider, who would AID
in conducting the responsible business OF public IN
struction will be to ascertain as far as practicable,
how far the present most improved methods OF ed
ucation are susceptible of improvement. We feel
we'll assured that there is some important, yet dl1l-
cult labor to be performed in fashoning anew ma
nv of the forms and methods now in use in the
schools of our State And we believe, too that
confidence and courage; talent, energy, and e2-
perience, are even more requisite here than in the
preliminary work of setting forth to the people the
CDhlOuS VI SSuSldi IuDAS Hioti uSuoi'3
and pursuadng them to providing the outward ma
teral agencies for securing its benefits. If it re-
quires not only unusual selfdenial, but segacious
foresight, active practical sympathies and lofty
purpose Of soul, to awaken the public mind to such
reflections upon this subject will lead to prompt
action, itaso requires free and Independent thought
nice discrimination, untiring perseverance, and faith
full devotion to the same noble cause, successfully
to substitute real improvement for the mere " emp
ty forms that prevail in great extent in our
schools
From the remarks which are frequently made
respecting superior schools, superior systems OF
teaching ETC., ETC." it might be inferred that the
art of teaching has heen reduced to perfection.
With Il sincere respect, however, for all that has
already been gained, would respectfully intimate
that this work has but just commenced. We think
that the greatest and most important service that
could be rendered to general education, is to origi-
nate new methods, and to bring to the great work
ticed or understood Weknow of no better way
that this could be done, than by the method now
in embryo. Let Teachers and the friends of edu-
cation meet together for consultation, for inter-
change of views and opinions, for mutual benefit,
arising from varied and extensive experience, and
we have no hesitency in saying that greater "a
mount of good and usefulness will be developed;
that more liberal portion of the innocence and
purity of childhood will be interviewer into man
hood, than past generations have known.
In view, therefore, Of the success of the meas
ures Of this praisworthy undertaking; in view Of
the magnitude and extent Of the interests Of popu-
ar education in the State, and of the kind and
amount OF labor which needs to be Immediately per-
ormed; in view also, of the sluggishness and in
stability of popular legislation upon this, as upon
other important subjects; and lastly, in view ofthe
harmony Of feeling and opinion at present existing
,mong the great body of the most experienced
Teachers of the State, let this meeting be well
cation in louisiana particularly our contemporaries
Of the Press feel that he is specially commissioned
TO guard the interests, and unfold the minds Of
thousands of Children and when he shall have
shufled off his mortal coil, he will have the crafty
ing reflection Of knowing that he done all that in
lim lay for the ameoration of his race.
We cannot bring to close these few incoherent
'emarks without referring, and extending the need
If praise to the protector and geter up Of this as
ISOLATION, Mr.. J. BRYsoN BURROWS, principal Of
he Thibodaux Home Academy, who though, COM
,aratively stranger among us, is doing more for
he cause of education here, than that important
ubject has heretofore commanded. We do not
wish to infer by this, that others have been remiss
tut simply that he appears to have concentrated all
lis energies, talents and time, in endeavorng to
rouse the people to a just appreciation Of the i'm
nense benefits of education, and proper training
# the youth Of the country. That others have
,een equally assiduous in some respects, we will
lot for moment question; but still they have not
aiken such broad and comprehensive view of the
whole matter and its influences, as he has. If the
Teachers State Association meets with success, and
We trust that it may to none will it more owe its
Existence than to the energy and perseverance Of
his gentleman
SAN "STILL LIVES" IN MoBILE.-At the NUM-
.pal election held in Mobile on Monday last says
he Crescent, the Americans carried their entire
icket-Mayor, Councilmen and Alderman-by
majority Of about six hundred votes! A truly
cheering triumph, all the circumstances considered.
All honor, then, to the gallant Americans Of
Mobile. They have not proven themselves un-
worthy the name they bear; and while we congra-
ulate them on the noble example they have set,
We have the satisfaction Of believing that it will be
initiated.
Boor AND SHOE MAKERS OF LYNN.-The growth
# the boot and shoe business in Lynn, Mass, |
confined principally to the boots and shoes worn by
women and children, is an index of the growth in
he whole State in this branch Of manufacture
ranch which, including leather, did not in 1916,
xceed nineteen millions Of dollars, and in ten
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