The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-04-09
Uniformity in Text Books.
A Standard for wyandot County.

A Standard for Wyandot County.
The importance of uniform series oi
class books for the schools OF the county
has been long felt and earnestly desired.
Until the present time no plan has been
suggested which was deemed practical
bic, by which this object could be attain
ed. Publishers have hitherto offered no
reduction in the price of their books, and
to make radical change of text books,
at the usual retail rates, was considered
too expensive. Or if they have offered
favorable inducements in regard TO price,
the difficulty and expense of transporting
the books from the offices of publication,
were obstacles in the way. But an op-
portunity is now offered here at home
within the limits of the county--by which
uniform series of Standard Elementary
7ent Books can be secured at less Man
half the usu1 rates. The publishers of
the "Eclectic Educational Series" Of
School Books, have made an arrange
ment by which new books aoiN be giuea IN
exchange for old ones, at trifing rates of
difference The several books of the Ec-
lectc Series will be exchanged for the cor
responding grade OF books OF other au-
thors in actual use in the schools of the
county, at such rates as will enable every
school to secure uniformity.
TO TOWNSHIP BOARDS OF EDUCATION.
The New School Law authorizes the
several Township Boards to adopt the
Text Books to be used in the Schools of
their respective Townships. This is one
of the excellent features of the law, and
needs only to be carried into effect that
all may be satisfied of its beneficial re-
suits. As long as this matter is left un.
decided by the Boards, schools are sub
iect to constant innovations and an end
less diversity of text books. Thesgreat
obstacle in the way has hitherto been the
expense attending any positive action of
the Boards. This being now, in great
measure, removed, it is to be hoped that
the reluctance heretofore manifest on this
subject will no longer be felt, but that
the Boards will avail themselves of the
favorable opportunity offered them for Sc
curing uniformity, and thus quiet the
ever-changing system now prevalent.
TO TEACHERS.
No one understands SO well the time
lost to pupils, the money lost by parents.
the regrets and vexations 10 Teachers,
caused by a multiplicity of text books, as
those who are called upon to take charge
of schools where such state Of things ex-
ist. 1t is to be hoped, then, that the
teachers of the county, in view of the mu-
tual advantage of uniformity to them
selves, their pupils, and the community
will encourage this movement, and lend
their hearty aid in carrying out an enter
prise which promises great good to all.
THE COUNTY EXAMINERS,
Feeling, in common with many of THEN
fellow citizens, the Importance of taking
measures to establish some system in the
school books used in the county, and re-
lieve the community from the evil effect.
of continual change, and in view ofthe ia.
cilities now offered for obtaining uniform
.tity. call upon their fellow. citizens to avail
themselves of the opportunity offered
and lend their cordial sanction to the
movement. The Examiners endorse the
movement as follows:
The undersigned, School Examiners
of Wyandot County, cordially approve o
the 8 Eclectic Educational Series ane
earnestly recommend to Teachers ant
Township Boards to avail themselves o
the advantages now offered for its adop
ton in the schools of our county.
T. E. GRIsELL,
J. FL. HoLToN,
HENRY MADDUx,
Sc. Ex. Wyandot Co.
Upper Sandusky, Oct, %. 1856.
The undersigned is prepared 10 max
the exchanges proposed, having receive
a full supply Of all the Eclectic schoe
: Books designated in the annexed list. ]
r is to be hoped that Teachers and Town
r ship Boards will hasten to send in thei
old books in use in their schools, and max
the exchange while the opportunity last
The figures attached to the books in tt
J. list annexed, are the rates which will b
i charged between new books aud Old
: For further particulars apply to
J. H. sHOLTON,
Upper Sandusky, Obi
Is P. S. Particular attention is invite
N to the new editions of Pinneo's Primal
and Analytical Grammars, and McGu
fey's Spelling Book. Teachers will
Is supplied with sett of these works
a. forty cents. J. III. H.
w ECLECTIC EDUCATIONAL SERIES.
= McGufey's Pictorial Primers,
= McGuffey's Spelling Book, !
r. McGuffey's First Reader, :,
lie Nc Gufey's Second Reader,
de McGufey's Third Reader, :
;s McGuffey's Fourth Reader, :.
: MeGuffey's Fifth Reader,
lf' Hemans' Ladies Reader,
be Word Method Reader,
be Chart of Elementary Sounds.
he Rays Child's Arithmetic, +.
II Rays Mental Arithmetic, /.
" Rays Practical Arithmetic,
'n' Key to Rays Arithmetic,
of Rays Algebra, Part First,
o. Rays Algebra, Part Second,
& Key to Rays Algebra,
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