Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1856-12-09

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9 vjrginipskow ever. has, ia.the la4t ten
yeaps Undergone great change in r"s-
5Tpect to her school-tcaehers and school
teaching, The timewas in this .,old
Dominion. when notwithstanding was
locked upon as servile and humihatinS
oecupa,ion-as pursuit that suited ad-
Imirably the plodding and groveling
mind Of a Yankee-but not at all suited
to the high.toned, hish-bred. chivalric
Virgipian Even few years ago, when
Virginia was Allied with indifferent Yam
kee school-teaehers, you could, scarcely
find school master who occupied an in
fldential position in society. Now
through and by means of, the University
Of Virginia, the Military Institute at Lex
ington. and other Virginia Colleges, the
Professions of school teaching has become
one of the most important, lucrative and
respectable Of pursuits. The first young
men il the State in point Of talents, edu-
cation and Responsibility. have turned
their attention TO the subjectof teaching,
and many of them have chosen the pro-
fesson AS their pursit for life, and are de-
voting all the energies Of their nature to
the erection OF first class academies
The principle adopted at the Institute and
the University of educating every year 4
certain number of young Virginians free
Of tuition costs, aud requiring them. as
compensation therefor, to teach school
within the State Of Virginia for couple
Of years, has done and is doing much to
pHpularizc school: teaching, and make
Virginia people regard school. teachers as
fit members Of a well-bred society, In
deed. it was in this way that the young
men Of Virginia first had their attention
turned to the subject Of teaching.
The I University and the Institute have,
within the last ten years, sent out every
year number Of graduates, as TEACHERS.
And thcs! young Firsinians are 50 Ear
superior in manners. morals, and educa-
! ton 10 the Yankee teachers We formerly
hal. that Yankee teachers have been
compelled to give way and make room for
|. Virginia teachers. And$ this happy
change has been going on SO rapidly that
atthe present time inEsslern va. il is al
mostimpossible for oneto get employment
asa school-teacher. unless he was born,
raised and educated in Virginia: And
this truly Virginian and Southern feeling
prevails nearly to the same extent in the
Valley OF Virginia. And We. hope the
day is not distant when it will prevail
over every portion Of the .entire. Com
monwcalth, and that no person m,ll be
employed to- teach and ms. ruct Virginia
youth, unless ''hc be of tho Alano: born"
unless he be by birth and by ea~"atiom
thoroughly identified with The great iu-
terests of Virginia and of the South.
The plastic, plant minds of Virginia
youth should not be placed under tie in
huence and control Of Northern teachers,
who Are Numerically opposed to tbe
dearest interests Of the South. Button
the contrary the youthful mind Of Hir-
ginia should have instilled intoit Virgin
ia thought, Virginia feeling, Virginia
sentiment, Virginia prciudites and yir-
ginia politics. Andhcre we will add
that the influence exerted in Trans A le-
ghany Virginia BY Yankee teachers is
entirely too great, and that it behooves
every trueTirginian to correct this evil.
No education is better than bad educa.
ton i; no morals are better than bad NOR
ais, and as theeducation and morals i'm
parted to Virginia youth by Yankee
teachers who find their way into Trans
Allegheny, arc not exactly in accordance
with Virginia standard Of education
and morals, We are decidedly Of the opin-
ion that Northern schoel-masters should
be dispensed with in Trsns-.Alleghany ;
and that persons having charge and con-
troll of schools and academies should al
ways select Virginians for school-teach-
ers. And furthermore we contend that
'our free school teachers shoul d be vir-
ginians out and out, ''a'as q ~ cute =
and that taxes raised for a school fund
should not be used in having the children
of the county instructed in principles di-
rectly in antagonism to the principles Of
the tax payers tbemselves-that teachers
for our free schools should be selected,
who do truly and really represent the
feeling and sentiment Of the great body
Of taxpayers. .1... at-s-.,s.0 (
DR.. English'S Works. '..' 49,, w.,