The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1855-09-19
GENERAL pRoPos1r1cNs.

The position il assumed by your COM
mittee that the profession of teaching is an
affirmative PROFESSIONALISM the labor offs
acting upon other minds, as to bring into
active exercise and full development the
higher qualities Of cur common nature, is
positive and not negative employment.
There seem to be but two modes Ottawa
kening the intellectual and moral faculties
Of the child, and Of fixing the entire charac-
ter of the man. The first is,to allow tie in
tellect to receive such development and the
character to take such formation, as all sur
rounding circumstances, stimulants and in
Auences, may chance to give it, leaving j
ever to be acted upon by public sentiment
and in turn to react upon this same publi'
sentiment, without any pre-concerted, pre-
determined plan whatever, trusting that al
virtues spring into being spontaneously, ,ant
that vices only are the results Of culture
trusting that the mighty ocean Of public o
pinion can never be agitated but with entire
safety to every tempest tossed mariner; tha
honor, bright honor, so eliminates ane
guides all the business transactions of life
thut deception and fraud may never find
lurking place; presuming that social life ha
dangers to be avoided, nor pure and eve
enduring enjoyments to be shared; presum
,, ing that existence here has no disappoint
ments, no sorrows, no trials, no stern dutie
to be met, no temptations to be overcome
no purpose, no plan, no SUBMITS of Bliss t
be reached, no abysses Of degradation en-
misery to be summed; in brief that all tha
exists is right, that improvement, unceasin
progress, were never to be regarded as e:
y sential stimulents 10 human exertion.
The second doctrine in the profession
! teaching is, that the educator is bound
!. proceed upon the suppositlon that the chi
9 has faculties planted within it which nee
I active, positive, regular, frequent exerci:
for their proper development: that all q
ternal and chance developments Of chara
ter are to be most carefully excluded--th
dangers most imminent, and Temptation
and trials to virtue most sore, hourly bes
the pathway Of every child--that, in brie
]. this life has purpose, and that purpose
! complete and glorious preparation for al
other life: and, further. that all possible
Is gitimate means are to be employed to s
i y cure this preparation for every child--th
the wealth oft world should be laid n
der contribution, to effect this object--tf
nature herselfis to be tortured INTO o CO
cs lession of her most occult mysteries to 3
= in this grandest Of all human enterprises
y that the air pump and the crucible. the I
escope and tie microscope must each rev
its distinct world Of interst and wonder
J, aid il arousing the human intellect and
eyating the human soul. Assuming
y latter to be the true doctrine, the profess
Of teaching is claimed TO be an affirmad
- profession, and the science Of teaching,
far as the term science Is applicable to
3 3 a positive and not a negative science.
& Our next general proposition Is, that
y. profession ofteaching Is something to be
4 qaired, to be carefully, thoroughly, p
I foundly studied and wisely understood