The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-09-03
G0ufationol Dcpartment.

| G0ufational Dcpartn,ent.
Csmmencemea;.
The Male and Female High School, con-
Quoted BY J. B. RuE, will commence its Fall
Session on Monday, the 5th inst.
Our Schools. 81
Too much 10 attempted in our schools.
that IL their fundamental fault. There are
thousands OF pupils among US who are re-
quired to devote attention to eight or nine
distinct subjects every day; whereas every
teacher knows, that no one can energetical-
ly and probably attend to more than three;
and Of those three. hut one should be diff
cult. Education does not consist in the
quantity acquired. What ia the essential
difference between I'm educated and an I'M
educated person? tits the same Ms that be-
tween wild colt and gentle, spirited,
trained horse. The educated man is one
who, when he Was a boy, did not do as he
pleased, but was trained to do as he ought.
The educa' ed man il one who has acquired
the grand art Of taking palns. lie is a reg.
ulated, developed person, who has gained
by practice the ability To use his faculties
to the best advantage. One good lesson
every day, faithfully eavued, vigorously
heard and persistentiy reviewed, is better
for this purpose than any other number.
All our trachers are overworked. No
man can tvauh six hours 4 day with the re-
quisite spirit aud emery, any more than \
clergyman can preach TX hours a day.
Fancy an eloquHn' preacher, after holding
an audience hreh,biess 10. AN hour by \ ser
mon full Of learning and truth, Diminishing
the enchanting iaulttu&e. ONLY that thel
seats nigk. be .mmediujciy re-fllled with
another crowd of fresh, expecrant hearers.
That is what our teachers are expected to
do, and do. Aud their task is more difficult
than the preacher'- because the hearers of
their tongues, wh,lr the teachers youthful
throng will do 50 only as long as he holds
them by tact Or terror.
And that brings us to another most serious
defect in our schools, the defective Author
ity of the teachers. The teacher should be
pre- eminently man Of authority but his
authority should come from his superior ma
ture, and not from the exercise of m iterial
pOwrr-of brute force. lie should be, in
the highest sense Of the term Man-not Il
boy, not IL tyrant. He should be allowed
to flourish no whip or other insignia Of tyr
amy and badge oe degradation over the
backs Of his pupils. If he cannot govern
by the majesty OF his men-by the glance,
Vt his eye, let him quit the school room,
and seek sphere which he is qualified to
fill. The public whipping post was long
since abolished; there Is no longer any tog.
ging in the army OR navy; and it is high
time that brui,ers Of juvenile flesh were BY
law excluded from our >choolr"pms.
Another point which should receive atteu-
ti"n, is the symmetrical development and
culture of children physically us well rs
rs mentally. They sh ,uld have plenty of
beautiful exercise and sound bodily training.
The school should not, however, be turned
into ball or a concert. Whatever is done
in school should be done rs work and not As
play. Give children AS much opportunity
to play US you please; but let rlay be play
and work be work. But this subject is cx-
banding beyond our limits. Where is the
teacher who will show US really good
schu ola great school--a school worthy to
be held up ns model for all the world p
N. Y. Ledger.
CO Here little folks, you who love read
ing. here is An item for You from the Lon
don NJ rning Star that am sure will make
you dance with glee.
Hitherto the characters used in print.
ing have been composed of mixture Of
lead and antimony, these characters, by rea-
son Of their extreme softness, wear ont
quickly, and are, besides, very expensive
The characters are moulded one by one
The best workmen can scarcely produce five
thousand Of them day in the rough. They
have afterwards to he finished up, and pass
through several hands. NJ. Combarieu, by
an ingenicusly invented machine, pro tuces
ten thousand Of these characters at u stroke.
Each letter is separated by mechanical
saw, which divides them by a mathematical
precision. Ths Consequence of this inven.
ton will be increased production exacti-
tuds and regularity, hitherto unastaina-
Bile; the use of harder metal, which will
avoid the frequent renewal Of printers ma
terials reduction (by one half of the out
Law; and at the one great object-an in
crease in printing, AMI an enormous dim;n.
utiou in the price of books Look now
through the vista of approaching wears and
behcl1 the glorious result NJ. Cambareu
I aa1Euh 81 '''ht'"h VI PfouuciHS cHhr
acte-s on s.e>', We durability Of which will
be beyond caIcu.n ON.
CO Within fvo years in Indiana there
have been erec,si twea.y seven hundred
school houses. nj N aSpenqH Of e'even hun
bred thousand DO RS. In the last year SIX
hundred AM ,fty school houses were built,
a. cost of three hundred thousand dollor..
Thi, sum is obtained by special school tax
that was paid hv the people with general
cheerfuluess. - Detroit AIrertiser.
T. NJ. DAVENPORT & co.