Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-07-13

fspucATiOSALGOsvENI ioN = % ~ g.
maaeto the Newborn Conventionb y Rev. Oh. Wiley.
that the journal Of Education published ihr the AS
sociaiiou at Greensboro must be failure. unless
more efficiently ai.eis "A Committee was appointei
To devise plan for its success and report to tn.
Convention. If we could have been present, We
should have Suggested change Units plan. Instead
Of monthly pamphlet, We would have suggested {
weekly, in newspaper form, and urged that its con
duct be adapted, not only to the tastes Of ltera-
ry'men and educators. but to the masses. upol
whose cnlightmcnt and cooperation, the success Of
our Common School system must mostly depend
\ cheap weekly, thrown broadcast over the State
setting forth the benefits and practical operation o.
our Common School system, would accomplish won
ders. The people need light ON the subject
1t was COOL suggestion of Rev. j. H. Brent, o.
Newbern, to initiate plan by which the Common
Schools of the State should be equally and authori
tatively represented in the annual meetings of ths
Convention. Perhaps the only feasible plan would
be to authorize the Superintendent of Common
Schools in each County, to appoint a suitable lnai
and an alternate. to represent the common schco'
interest of each County in the State, in the Conven
ton who should be furnished with all the informa
ton both statistical and suggestive, by the Board.
neceSsa'y to make up full exhibit of the condition.
wants and prospects of Common Schools throughout
the State.
As vet the proceedings of Wednesday, only have
come to hand; but we doubt if any subject has beer
brought before the Convention at its late session. OF
greater importance to the cause of education IT
North Carolina than the one introduced by
temporary of the Beaufort Journal Stephen d. pool,
ESQ We aude to his proposition to secure uni
formity in the use of fert books in all the different
grades of schools in North Carolina. Mr.. Pool Isl
practical teacher and had seen and felt the want o.
uniformity on this subject, and we surprised to
find practical teachers oposing it.
Perhaps there is cause which operates
more periodically to the interests of education, than
the frequent change of text books and the employ
mcnt Of bad or worthless Three tourths OF
the school books in vogue, unsuitable as text
books They seem to be deS gncd as helps to teach
FRS instead of students-a sort of hhor-savng ina
chimes. which encolrag: the teacher to keep hi>
mouth shut and to render as they suppose, Lectures
Oil the part of the ter.hcrS unnecessary School
Books filed up with questions and explanatory notes
signed helps to students serve the dcuble bad
rurIose6t lesscnng the labor of the teacher, and
preventing students from thinking. Now to our
mind, system of questions or explanatory notes
be beneficial when it relieves the teacher from
pcls nal AMI practical illustration No hook can he
rat!r to do the Work efficiently of the living, active
teacher.
| The employment of unsuitable text books or fire.
! queny changes from ba to but little better, works
mischieroll>ly in various ways. First it is source
-
or ten years becomes a serious matter. Sccondlv.
it rctar,S the progress of the student who must get
the hang of every new book, before he begins to
profit by it. Thirdly it is waste Of time. adding
n,a,ly third or fourth to the time which would BIZ
necessarily employed in passing through the usual
course Of study.
|! We are glad the proposition succeeded, but We
are inclined to think a large committee ought to
| have been appointed, or at least subcommittee
composed Of fifteen practical teachers, to report to
the committee, would secure the object better We
shall have occasion to all,de to the tlongs of the
Convention hereafter ITeM. Dipateh.
MORE EXPLOITS OF TIE AMERICAN EAGLE.
! MAJOR BoTTs TO HIS NATrRALIzED FELLOW CITIZENS.
; To the Editors Of the " j. Erening Post:
Some of my naturaZcd fellow-ctizens having
asked my opinions on the doctrine of political ale
glance as set forth in the letter Of the Hon. Secre-
! tary Cass beg the favor of your columns to con-
vcy to them the following brief expressions Per-
init me to say also, that my name is before the
try in connection with the Presidency, without any
personal effort my part ard that is not the de-
sire to influence votes that prompts me to address
you.
That down trodden victim of European depotism
who seeks refuge these shores is, in my humble
opinion, from that time forth within the sacred pre-
cncts of the American Confederated States of Lib
crty. The talons of that proud bird which tore the
flag Of IrelandFs oppressor from the outpiercing
topmast which for successive centuries pierced the
belt Of Orion he wbirlcd his nightly course in the
heavens will not pause to clutch with fierce ire and
to scatter in thousand shreds the reeze-hauntng
erb,ems Of oceanic pseudosovercignty. Gentle
men, the beak of that glorious fowl will dart with
the velocity of lightning to avcnge the wrongs of
outraged Ireland, and TO vindcate the bleeding
wounds of the SONS of the glorious fatherand. Let
but single naturalzed hair of foreign born citi
zen be extracted by the impious autocrats of Eu
rope, and the fleets of our mighty confederation
shall send the roll Of their decp-inouthcd cannon
from Plum Gut to the Golden Horn
JOHN Bolts,
Major LIST Brigade.