Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1856-07-01
For the Telegraph.
Our schools. yf

MR.. EDIToR:--The oDJeoi ofthe article
over my signature, which you had the good.
ness to spread before your readers on the
Sd inst. was no, 10 dispafaee, but 10 aid in
developing better system of ,esching and
training in our schools. Good schools can.
not suffer by Investigation, and jus. Grill.
cism; but both will aid in furnishing weap.
ons Of defence 10 the friends OF thorough ed.
ucalion. TO say that our teachers are gen:
orally efficient, would be detrimental 10 the
cause OF learning, by preventing vigilance
on. the par Of parents. Eternal vigilance
is tho price Of learning. The work OF prop
agaiiDg mind, which does mo-. perjshitke
material objecls; bu, lives on-isa great yo-
cation, which ough. not TO be placed in un.
skllful hands 10 be. treated rudely. We
need teachers, who have a knowledge Of
The nature aud powers Of the humaa mind.
both from study and experience. We want
those, who know what child is cepabls Of
doing. and how 10 direct and develop its
powers. How are we TO have such teach
ersl By having Teachers Institutes ami
BY Boards Of Examiners requiring more
thoroughly qualified teachers. IL Examin-
ers would demand thorough qualifications,
the supply ot .ho oughI1 qualified Teach.
err would soon meet the demand. Granting
csnih hcaies 10 badly qualified canddaes, has
q re,rograde,endency. by preventing Gurh-
or improyemen,-fpr generally they do moi
sludy any more alIer receiving their credeu.
,ials. We need teachers who are capable
of 'eaching mostly by analysis, which cor
ss,s in separating a. compound in is origi-
nal parS Distributing type (models] alIer
they have been set up, letter after letter, 10
an example Of analysizing words 3ul this
Is not all that belongs to'euching OrIhogra..
ply by anaIysisl A word must be reduced
TO simple one, If compound word BY
stripping i, Of its pre.fixes and suf-fixes, and
by exploding the letters and giving TO each
le''sr its proper sound. This is teaching
onhoeraphy from the root. as oil branches
should be taught. and not begin Vt the top Of
Tree to cul il down. Books are being so
simplfed as TO render mos. studies compar.
lively easy-for instance, fifty years ago.
Geography was sIudied wi.hou, on atlas.
now, Bem's Chars Of Chronology profess,
10 be to History wha. The qtlas'is to Geog.
raphy. knowledge should be simplified
ard brough. down tohhe cOmprehen sion Of
the youthful minG--for example in forming
the possessive case; if The noun does no.
end in 8, the should ncusr be Joined TO the
wOrd, bu, should stand plainly yssepara,e from
ii by the aposWophe, thus: Bem his Chars.
The Office Of the aposwophe is TO show that
something has been le(i ou,. Th0s stands
for a whole word. and should, therefore,
never be joined 10 the noun. .le0a sr &
On THE RleHT USE OF CAPITAL LETTERS
AND THE USE OF ABBREyIATioNs,- ,-All alb.
brevialions commence with a capital leuer
and take period after them; as Ala. 81
Louis. and Mo. Il has been customary to
write dates as folIowss Dec. 10Th, 1856
A,Presen! she daIe cf q suer; biii.&c., Is
written simply thus; Dec. 10. 1858, the
periods denO.ihg the abbrsvialions. One
example aore--John strikes George. Here,
as In other, cases, ihe verb strikes, tells wha
the agen. John does. The blow passes ovel
: and HIS George the objqcs, which makes Y
\ an, ,ac.ive iransi,lve vetb-- active, because, !,
expresses action -l,ransitlve. because the he
Iiop pns,eso over asd Terminates on the per
son affected by'he action, il is Admitted
4 10y oil ,horough educators, 'hastbe only inu'
: method ofdeyeloping the powers oi q child
s. mind, is 10 teach him or her 10 Mink--u