The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1855-09-19
CADIz, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 1855.


which only lcng years ofaetiVe sacrifice and
toll can counteract.
Standing on this eminence, holding IN
our hands treasures which belong most sa-
credly, not To ourselves, but to Others we
have no alternative but to labor with the |
strength and abilityswhich God has gwen
us to sustain at the highest point Of dignity
and honor, security and confidence. the free
public school system Of our State. We want
this professional school, then, to give us
professional skill, varied attainments,
strength and solidity Of character to meet
in worthy manner the trusts reposed in
us. We want it for the conansen storehouse
in which shall be gathered all the wisdom
of our own and other lands on the all abb
sorbing subject of educatingour race. We
want an institution around which our COM
mon affections may cluster, one that shall
give completeness and finish to our chosen
profession. We want professional school
for the uniformity it viii give to the meth
DDS of instruction adopted for any and ey-
cry portion of the State; and this is a matter
Of such serious Importance that little space
must be devoted TO its discussion. 1t must
have occurred to every tea cher, and proba-
bly, to every thoughtful parent, that there is
an immense annual loss to pupilsin the con-
stantly changing modes Of discipline and in
struction in all the schools of the country
1t will be quite safe to say that there is not
system Of schools in any town or city OF
the State SO complete in its arrangements
and modes OF instruction, that new teach
er can be substituted for an old one, with.
out very serious loss to the school. Indeed
the more complete the arrangements, the
greater loss in the change. The new teach
er has new motives to address to the pupils
to incite them to study or duty, and this
breaking up Of one class Of motives and sub
stitution of another, will probably fritter a
way the more valuable advantages Of an in
tellectual character, for term, to say moth
ling of other and more serious losses.
Again, the new teacher, even after som
terms of previous experience, when com
! mencing in well arranged system, ha
perhaps the merest elements in Theory and
: Practice of teaching yet to learn, and some
/ time must elapse before skill can be acquir
ed in the application of these FIRST princi
, pies in human culture; and by the time th
! time the services Of the teacher begin to b
of especial value in one school or one sys
\ tenn Of school or one system OF schools,
). new field Of labor is sought, or the profes
e sion, perhaps, abandoned, And if all thi
is true in the city where the most talent, th
!. most money, the most vigience are expei
ded upon the schools, what shall be said
i the country districts where change of teacl
D ers quarterly is the rule, continuance ts
r. terms the exception?
ID Will not one or more professional schoo
IL Of high order, tend to remedy, if they ca
y not entirely extinguish these evils?
s. teachers must change can we not save IL
b. system from constant fiuctuation? Can n
or all the good methods Of instruction in O
a. State be collected and embodied, and tht
he diffused. widely and universally diffused?
to 1t is believed that something valuat
to our schools might be gained ip this wa
an OBJECTIONS 10 THE ESTABLISHMENT or
ae NORMAL SCHOOL BT AN ASSOCIATION OF TEAC
liz ERs.--First, the project is novel. 9th
ge professions have for long time thought
Ia necessary and expedient to provide pla
X for the best possibleeducation OF the inco
" ling members Of their profession, but it is !
y known that teachers have anywia@e, he
it, Itofore, seriously undertaken to provide
IN means of securing creditable and libe
M professional education for themselves a
ILL their successors. Something amusing iii
y, instructive, might probably be said in re]
he TO This objection, but, having no moments
ent devote to amusement at present, this
he lection must be dismissed from conside
Ter ltion with the suggestion that those y
ib- dread novelties and innovations will
Dn- quite likely to be sayed from annoyance
the emigrating to ckins or Japan.
tof Second Normal School, literally org
an- lied and properly sustained, will cost m
owe ey. Very likely it will. otherinstituti
The Iif they have any character or any value I
al- money. And yet other institutions are 3
se'' tanned in our State, in ayoluntary man
ace. at an immense annual expense, for the ?
lrti- pose Of extending the empire Of reason /
that diffusing knowledge among men. T
cial why may wenot hope that an institut
lon. having for its object the best possible /
ONE cation Of thoseto whom the great inter
atty Of flearning and morality are intrastcd,
to Be established and sustained?
Some encouragement has already |
The given that this can be done. II viii b,
hold membered chat previous to our last an
en- meeting an offer Of great iiberality
the made By MI. Cyrus McNeeiy, Of Hopet
light Harrison Co. o., to the Association, for
but purpose Of establishing at4leastone Nur
less School. Buildings, land and apparatu
hou., tla value, of ten thousand dollars and