Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-02-13
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out trial and due examination: consequent
ly, every improvement has to fight Its
way. Most of The improvements being IN
troduced by our teachers have long been
adopted and established in the best public
schools east: consequently such improve
iments are not mere experiments but vafn.
able acquisitions in the great art of popu-
liar c.lucatiop, We notice il is becoming
common everywhere for paretts and schoo'
Iofiicets to often visit and spend much OF
their time in the schools in cold and rough
winter weather. This practice, If kept up,
will greatly benefit our schools; we can
see wherein they are to be improved in a
hundred ways by this general visitation OF
parents to the public schools, besides the
benefits of instruction to parents-for the
Did are just about.as capable Of learning as
che young.
Our public schools are expensive, but
we can see that tax payers, even those not
possessed Of children, arc growing more
and more into the belief that it is more
profitable in a property sense TO educate
all the children, rich and poor, high and
low-aItogetLer in the free public schoo /;
they begin 10 see that general education
and intelligence in any neighborhood adds
Imore than its equivalent in va'ue to the
landed property of that vicinity, besides
general industry, good economy, high mo-
raity and much wherein to glory. Money
nv ested in education through our schools
is like money invested in lands and stocks
on speculation: ii requires time 10 get a
rich return over outlay, but that return
comes mighty good in ripe old age; be-.
sides, to bequeath education to posteritv
is ever better than riches, for the latter
may be taken away, the former may not
These are sober considerations matters
for calcul ation, just like banks, land jobbing,
merchandise, DC. Does it pay to educate
the children at the public charge, is the
question of the cool calculator in dollars
and cents; can the world be benefited by
for the moralist and philanthro-
pist TO decide, AMI is God gloriied by pop
ular education is the christians inquiry
For our art we profess to be an econo
mist and MORALS. and to believe in God
and his attributes as revealed in the Bible,
and we can see that all these are most pro-
noted by the public school-nost damag-
ID by popular ignorance.
New England almost governs the world
~ means of public schools established sew
mtg years ago; enough wealth has accu-
null ated in bleak and barren, cold and
mountainous New England to build rail
Dads all over the east and west and pro-
isie shipping enough to govern the COM
nerce of the world; every institution.
whether holy or unholy; everp department
If industry, mechanical, agricultural, and
cientifc; every creed and political science
lnd moral system-all are propelled, i'm
proved, invented or driven by our New
1nglanl intelligence, skill, money and en-.
erprise, all as grand result of popular
EDUCATION at the start. Some of theStates
'emain prejudiced against public schools
and are now the feeble infants, the poor
the helpless, crippled, hewers of
wood aud drawers of water, dependents f r
their clothing and Injuries, sopinions and
thoughts, upon those who early went in for
public schools. Statistic facts exhibit all
this and more. Then it becomes every
man to act now in this matter of school en-
terprise. We have fine start in Wiscon-
sin but there is yet much to do.
DISCOVERIES, THE EFFECT.
We continue to hear of new an | valt,a-
BILE mineral discoveries in every mining Vi
entity of Grant, Iowa au4 Lafayette coun-
ties. On every hand, farmers, mechanics,
professional mon, are resort