The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-05-04
From the Temperance Wreath.
LETTER saerg CSF'SlN FOB.

L lie rlghts OF yoRtt W nat are they! Ia this
era of popular rignts they cannot and must not be
forgotten.
They nay be summed up briefly:
First. 4 rishG 10 guarded hone education.
Second 4 right 10 a liberal school education.
1t must be admitted that facilities for proper
education are multiplying that progress is perhaps
going o. quite fast ugh-tiIat it IS 70 longer
individual, out national work; free schools i'm
proved school laws, c1d everything indicative OF a
right principle being at work, may he noticed to
show what may be expected
Tie causes of conlplaiat then are few; never
theless many home SCHOOLS might be better than
they are. and many hemes likewise. Children are
in,pressible beings and no place on earth should
be more hallowed to truth and good order than
the places where infant minds receive their ear hest
Instructions as vel a. latest lessons
such a ha-.owed spot should De tint home Of
every family Such should be its associations, its
charms duties, It's pleasures that every child
may hold that spot dearest AID best Owed
tI,iiy hoEse.
And next in Importance should be held the dis
trict school Mauv children here gain their entire
school educatior. esen from the alphabet Of our
native language; fav mach more. then, the need
OF c-.a in the organization aud management Of
such schools. The home school Is the most i'm
D0rtant OF aii and tue evils IN education in nine
eases cat Of ten resalt from he uege neglect Of
/ those who should have the management OF such
schools. But II speaking thus may also say that
this neglect grows more from ignorance than soth
Teachers aud parents generally are truly inter
ested yet despite their ?: ius and expense in coz
tiauiGs their schools great evils viii continue to
exist SO loag as disordercd school houses ard dis
ordered homes exist, and just to the extent to
which they exist.
The moss dreary aud desolate place ia many
neigh borhood in The school house No watchfu
care has been eAperded in ornamentjug it, OF the
grounds a0outit Not abloom in summer springs
up aroual it-aaY, even destitute Of fence or any
4vt st IN ail
as if it were some haunted aud abandoned place,
Yet here the children of ali the surrounding dis
trict congregate in .}c bright sualy morning, and
here they meet t2o, with g'adness in their little
hearts, Here tLey learn lessons that will be re-
membered through H., ali IN accordance with the
order Of this school, and the associations good or
evil their chara acter's moulded. "W hat youth
is eighteen. i has been said. the same sill be
in character III after lie" And how 10
expect young mea aud women to be rightly edU-
Gated while such condition Of things exist IL and
around the home school.
How little the cost how little the care n2cczsa-
~ to arrange and maintain neatuess and order
about Il most every district school in the Union.
know til there will be difficulties, vet what good
thing WAS ever accom- ,.ished without cncoan ,ering
dif1iculties2
Suppose school house to he built in a suitable
position and enclosed with proper care, shaded
with well-pruned trnes--a bit of luwn on one
side laid cut with alks and planted with flower
ing struobIry and vtrgreenS-besldes this, let
ample room be provided FIR play grounds, swings,
a1d llaythIngs duiy prepared, and let there be
substantial plank walk extended from the door,
and such o. aer things may lie Suggested for
veuience and ncatness y ithn, let the room be
arranged only with taaSuret1 and order. furnishing
a place far everything, and the difficulty of gov
erning school in such place is removed. OaIy
let children see that there is something begun il
this way, and nine out ten will assist all in their
power To preserve and improve, rather than de
of
houses is justiy attributed 10 the Uautonness Of
rude boys. Boys must be at some hing, if not
good, cvlL HEY are too nearly personiiieatrons
of perpetual notion to allow muscle to lag. or a
thought once conceived rot 10 be put into effect
But if these same boys were employed in beaati-
flying instead Of demolishing, there IS 10 reason
that not only the country sch0ol-house, but rlanv
a rural home would present the very opposite Of
wha; they 90 now. VIII any one doubt that this
change c0uld be made? None who have ever tried
the experiment, will. For wherever the opportu-
nifty Is offered, wherever things are itedup they
ought 10 be, improvement has beeu noticed. And
there IS nothing il the nature of n child that will
tame his msehevoGs spirit sooner or more eifectu-
al, than the development of his natural taste for
order AID admiration Of the beautiful, which, tho
. often hidden away under greet masses OF surera-
bIndant ru9eness and fln vet are as certainly there
IS The soul that contains them.
Parents seek for efficient teachers-taose who
are capable Of iustili.- the right priHri y'es Bat
Fltl 54ito WUl}tl UNDERTAKE the
task with full hope Of saecess, when the pa!1ce
Of which he becomes master, presents 50 'dehGht-
fiti q prospect 70. is the teacher SO IS ms
school; IS ! lal eac4u ireDieut OF tie teacher 4t
Only in remuneration, but in adequate means for
making his schoo' good 50 viii he be. Few te aca-
2rs ef real wo,th vii Be found 1adertst.ng tie
ask Of giving proper instruction in such school
hliiiiass rs ne commonly So, o3'y itia--s.l.t OF
Invalid persons vi! be t,gH:i who have not siore
spirit . SEX o5lte more pleasant and mere honor
abb emp.oEmat
I Wherever good seaoal-Aouses in pleasant situa-
tons are f7uul teachers well qraifsd are a.so
/ found, AMI thz two ua.;2.l everything goes on
well the ups receive 40 onesided cJuea.ior,. 5ut
the order a-osad hem creates develops Il j.
senses aHi ra.eless and care,essuass of zllan-
ner. is chaa- ed in.o at ity the heart is aIcated
as well rs t head. " nat pleasure must the du-
ties of the telcAsr of snch saho6I afford com
pared With hsi position with the salna students in
one of tue I'll Essan5 q: roadside domciis .llat an
fortunately take tie pl2ea Of schooI-halscs 1t
would be as saasaine to darkness taking no ac-
count of the priceless i2sans learnaa at the former
or Of the almost inevitably bad ores at the Latter
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