Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1856-02-19

erection Of large and connlodio,1s school edifce
at once i-is district comprises the whole vii.
lage, and therefore there can be no such thing.
strictly speaking, as a Union School: but n
building be put up and arranged ON tlat
plan, and all of the great and decided benefits
of that system can be secured. II should be
built IN 4 convenient place-bc ample enough
TO accommodate all the children in town. and he
so arranged and divided into departments that
they could all be classified according to their
age and proficiency There should Re one prin-
eiPal precep,or and as many suIordlnates n are
neeessary-the Principal to have the supervision
Of ali the departments, and to be qualified TO
teach the sciences. higher mathematics and Ian
graSes. am aware that efforts have been made
TO establish an Academy here. but think the
plan when / have proposed is far preferable
because The School Fund that we now receive
from the State, and which this wear is ;bout
Se00 would go towards its support. 1t would
be more beneficial to the students, for they could
be better classified than in an Academy. where
there would be necessarily fewer in attendance.
Besides, we want primary schools before we do
Seminaries and Colleges-Children must learn
their letters, before they study the genius and
idioms of lansuste.
In addition to 1he providing of suitable School
I Houses. competent teachers are 10 be cmployed:
not those who simply know how TO govern. nor
those who are simply learned enough. but those
who are qualified to teach and 10 govern per-
sons whom the pupils viii respect for their worth
and virtues, and who will exercise haprv in
fuence upon their dispositions and manners
+ II Is not every one who comes 10 vou with a
certificate from the beard of examiners. NOT ev-
cry one who comes well recommended. who is
htted to assume the custody and education Of
your children The moral and social character
OF the teacher is reflected u1on and affects the
character Of the pupil through life. The char
ac'er of the man is moulded in childhocd-"as "a
the twig Is bent, the tree Is inclined" is one of
the most truthful aud beautiful aphorisms of one
OF England's greatest philosophers and poets.
Ihe Instructors whom we now have need no
other eommendation, no other eulogy than the
exhibition which they have this day given Us
OF the advancement which their students lave
made under them, and of the deep interest which
they manifestly feel in their own education.
/ Text books. maps, apparatus, globes and all
other instrumentaiities must be supplied. A
mechanic can do nothing without tools. and
school books, maps, DC, are equally necessary
to the pupil. They contain the first princi,ics
which are the corner stones Of all Education
the alphahets of all the sciences Great ira-
proyemeats have been made IN school books
within the last twenty-five years The Geog-a-
phles, Arlthmetics and Gramirars Of the present
day are not the crude, unsystema,ic. complex
/ Things formerly in Use. The more simple. the
-esJer arranged and the more comprehensive
they are the better, ind great care should be
exercised in their selection, for these are fanda-
mental sciences and q thorough acquaintance
( viii tLeIn Is Of prime importance. In NV opi0-
ION too maeh attention and time are given to
studies which are practically useless. to what
. axe termed accomplishments. had much rather
see child proficient ia English Grammar than
to see him 4 snattcrer in Greek and Latin;
had much aather see him thoroughly versed in
Geography and Arithmetic tban in Painting and
Music. Such accomplishments are well enough
IN their proper places, bat they should not su-
FerseGe or interfere with studies of greater and
more immediate importance.
The present age is enliucntlr practical. and
there IS more need now cf thoroughly educated
practical minds tllan ever before in The worlds
history there Is demand for them in every
art, and science and vocation; and this demand
creates greater necessity for afTordng increased
facilities FOR the acquisition of learning. Tho
means necessary to bc used for iIstructing the
generation which Is soon to taka our place on
the thcatcr OF lIie and to assume duties and re-
sponsIbihties now incumbent upon Us, are with
IN orr reach The National and State govern
men-s under which We live have made ample
provisions for educational purposes and they
ioster all measures which are instituted and all
the means employed for the cultivation of the
youth of the land. They have no censorship
upon the books We use, no police espionage upon
the internal polity of our schools. The grants
and approximations which they have made for
school purposes Is part Of 4 wise, philanthropic
and patriotic policy which has in view the ame-
Iteration Of the condition Of mankind and the
pcrpetuity Of oar free institutions. Let US per-
form our part IN this great work, and then those
who succeed us may perhaps be better able than
we are to fulfil ali the obligations which will
rest upon them; 10 exercise broader nghtier
| and better influence in ;heir day and generation
and 70 transmit 10 their posterity guaranty of
the perpetuity of our free institutions, in the
universal intelligence and thorough education Of
the PEOPLE.
~ Teach a child there is harm in every
thing however innocent, and 50 soon as i discov-
ers the cheat, it viii see no sin in anything.
That's the reason deacons' sons seldom turn cut
well, and preachers daughters are married
through a window.
- poor man once came 20 a niser and
said: = have favor to ask SO have ;" said
The m scr Grant mine first tcreed Sf
request Is" said the miser. that you ask me for
nothing"
sx- There is a dandy in Chicacn of sr,cf1 nice