The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1860-06-21

We are again, KIND reader, ut the
table" for our usual monthly talk. We
are happy to visit you thus, to tender you
our sympathies, and to ask yours in re-
turn, We are reminded that our family
of readers is made up Of persons various
ly occupied. When we take the "quill,'
Fence, one difficulty meets us how may
we mingle our sympatLies with yours
how suit our "taIk" to readers whose in
tercsts seem so diverse. 1t occurs to US
we would far rather meet you at your
places Of busincss-on your farms, IN
your work shops, in your schools, at
your homes. Certainly our conference
would be more intimate, could we share
the spirit Of your respective calings, and
read, in your own utterance, the lights
and shades Of your several experiences.
But, dear reader, this privilege We must
forego. We simply come to you, this
month, asking familiar conversation on
subject which enlists your sympathies,
no less than ours
While we join in congratulations over
the prospects of fruitful season, and
the favorable indications of return of
former prosperity, we turn with incrcas-
ing interest to matter that should lie
nearer all our hearts than abundant har.
vests, and growing wealth. We refer to
the true education of the masses. When
the publication of the Instructor was un-
dertakcn, and we sent it forth to solicit
your favor and active CO operation, we
promised that it should be devoted to
Free. Schools. We believed Men, and We
believe as firmly now, that here is the
great lever of human progress. Neither
did we expect, in entering the education-
field as journal, to advocate a system of
pullc instruction so meagre and superb
clal in its character as to bring upon US
the odum of even the unlearned. In
the rising generation there are latent
powers to be developed, and in these la.
tent energies lies the real wealth of the
land. 1t is plain that our social relations
will not soon be SO adjusted as to afford,
outside the public school, equal opportu
mites OF instruction to all and hence,
reconstruction given in our schools should
be extended as far, and as rapidly,as may
be consistent with our means. To say
that mere smattcrlng is all the common
the peoples collegc-should contcm-
plate, dcferring all higher instruction to
the privata school, is simply to say that
mere apology for education is all the mas
scs want.
Our times demand the fullest, most
liberal culture Of all classes. The time
has come when "fogyism' should be Gus
ted from the public school,and when men
of the most liberal spirit should be at the
head of the great educational work
Such Is our opinion; what say you. teach
crs and patrons Of the cause throughout
the State? 1t we have been lead to be-
licvc that eminent educators have enter
tanned different views, we shall hope tina;
We have been mistaken.
Our aim has been, and shall continue
to be, the success of the Common School
Friends Of education, are you with us?
We arc gratlied to day, with the cvi-
dcDec Of Increasing interest which come
to US from all parts of the State. Nine
months since, when we began the publ
cation OF our paper, many OF our friends
know the opposition We mct-thc shafts
that were hurled By the enemy. We are
content with being right, aud hence inside
no effort to disAbusc ourselves of the mis-
representations hat were heaped uDon
US, and to day the Instructor occupies
more enviab.c position than ever before.
let Us labor On, and the triumph of Free
Schools is certain. We hope teachers.
and others interested, will be free to
write us, that through our columns the
WORKINGS Of the system may be known to
all We address ourselves especially to
teachers. Let US look about, and leave
nothing undone that Will tend to render
popular system that promises SO much
toward our real advancement. As the
IonG summer vacation approaches. let us
organize, aud take steps preparatory to
the o. ening of lnstitutes,to the securing
of lecturers, aud, in short, to the adop
ton Of every means that will enlist the
of the people in the grea,
cause of popular education