New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-03-08
srArE TEACHERS, Asso ATtoN.

The annual meeting OF the Louisiana State Teachers
Association commences in this city at the Iyceum
Hall, at eleven O'Clock to-day and a general request
i'd published in another column, to oil friends of edu
cation, urging their attendance.
We sincerely trust that the call will come under the
notice Of alteachers and friends Of popular educa-
ton now with us, and that it will be clothed with SUI
cent persuasveness to attract their attention and in
duce their attendance N 5s5st g$.ge55 7ss.
With all our material progress, prosperity and
advancement; with our constantly growing fields, III
creasng crops and material Roadway, we are very APT
prosperonsly and rapidly onward and placed us ii
such q commanding post ion among the nations and
powers Of the world. IT. However, o few moments at
tention is only given to the subject all Of ear wealth
our power, our glory aye, even our independence II
self, which have burst into such magnificent Hover
and foliage can be traced back to the primer spel-
ingbook and Assembly's Shorter Gateehiam, W y,
were used in the province of Massachusetts " "
Pilgrim Fathersust as readily as sne epo tr''9
which swing from the tree branches can pc W
the small black seed that was, twenty yeais "so'
| buried in the ground The earth had IN IL all the re-
,ns;tas for ntinent and that grand mandatory OF
,atnre witch blossomed into the apple there were
~ ns and sunshine and all the other ineXp-
eabIe ,necbarisnls requisite to the production Of
4 the fruit. But something more was needed than
SEED. and SOIL and the influences of heaven to
nroduee tile perfect fruit that melts and dissoves with
inicy sweetness in the mouth The upper soil must
lie Ioosened and pulverized, so that the struggling
germ can reachits head from the grave in which it
was buried, full Of sap and strength, into the pure
air; so that the roots can spread far and wide and
Fnra otaa safa% Taph. s0e that
successive struggle toward the stars whittier it aims
shall be assisted with fresh juice to support its exer
tons and othat, finally, when the spring with its
hope, and tie summer with its Astounding promise
shall have passed autumn may show the rich rewards
and ripened results Of previous life The tree would
have been bush whose topost twig hardly futtered
above the head, instead Of under whose wide
branches a city might bebuilt and there would have
been fruit, but it would have been small, gnary ant
tasteess the apples of The Dead Sea- rather thar
those glorious orbs, painted with every hue of the
heavens and as refreshing apure nectar-it woult
have been crab apple and not d pumpkn-sweet.
Except that they are flesh, and not fruit, men have
great likeness to apples They may be either crabs
or pumpkin-sweets; dwarfs or giants ;svaluable O.
valueless. The determination of their character de
ponds upon the education Of their youth or to carr.
our agricultural simile farther and also to repeat
adage of acknowledged truth, Gas the twig is ben
the trees inclined" The child is the father to thu
man1h-the germ, and may be bent any way may b.
/ made glory, pride, an ornament and an use, or
nuisance and source Of eternal regret. If proper.
| grounded and trained, taught and tended, his who'll
nature will be developed, and though it may NOT il
| one instance be so great a development as in an
other it will be approximate it will be its sphere
what that of the greatest is in it's For it is no mor
for horse rivalan elephant in stature, than for
antto equal mouse. The principles the same ant
the growth is proportionate. s.
j AsWe have cotton conventions and sugar planters
conventions political and religious conventions
Intended to foster and urge onward the interests tt
| which they appertain, it is eminently fitting w
/ should also have a teachers convention-an Assem-
blage of more actual value, if properly conducted
than all of the Others combined. For, although TIL
deliberations of the sugar and cotton conventions may
have more immediate result, so too, they will haye
more speedy ending The additional pound Or penny
they create is gone as soon as it is come But the in
crease Of the other convention never dies, never
can. 1t is, as Horace said of his works. acre peren
nius-more lasting than brassand, in fact, eternal.
| The interest of the subjects to be discussed ant
the broad field they occupy, clothe the proceedings
of the assembage to which we refer with great i'm
portance, and lead us to entertain the hope that VI
may have strong, sound, clearheaded and inteligen
men in the Convention who, having themselye
reaped those rich rewards that flow from good edit
cation anxious to inpart it to their children in
more enlarged manner, that the plans for which the
have lived may be carried onward and the world
wheels still be in constant progress Latin and Greel
painting and singing, can be very well done withou
They are sometimes advantageous, generally plea
anti but they are not indispensable. If there is spi
in a horse he will run just as fast uncuried an
perhaps little faster freer and farther than if ever
separate hair is laid in its proper bed. But let nc
the substantials be forgotten. Teach children how
read and write, and spell /; how to go through frat
tons and keep their faces clean, at al events and
any cost. Every dollar that is subtracted from tn
purpose is two dollars lost
1t is needless for us to add that we, hope the se
sions will be well attended, and that all plans an
topics will be carefully dgested before they acte
upon.
4 Some general idea of the proceedings we sha
) endeayor to publish.