The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-09-02

Next Monday morning the doors Of our School
Houses win again be thrown open and the chill
iren be invited to enter. Very short and very
pleasant to most of them, have been the sunny
lays Of their two months vacation. Very sweet
have been their innocent enjoyments. But now
the Summer is waning. The fields are not so
green, nor the woods 50, inviting The games
and sports Of the past two months are becoming
irksome, and the little folks are about ready to
resume-their books. May friendly faces every
where greet them at the School House door, and
my they whose task it is to guide the little feet
up the rugged sleeps of Learning, deal very
gently and patiently with their tender charge.
Did it ever occur to you, Reader, that Grants
army, in whose hands was the banner Of the Re-
public and the fate of the nation, bore
not a destiny more grand, . hope more pre-
cioius, than the little army of School going chill
dren, who will next Monday resume the siege of
useful knowledge 2 1t is hard to-realize and yet
it is true, that the ochildren's army bears the
germ of our future prosperity, our future institu-
lions, our status as d nation. The children Of
today are the men Of tomorrow. Our own
brief day Of authority win soon close, and our
places will be filed by those who are now sport
ing on the play ground. They wilEdirecti civil
ization, mould public sentiment, guide national
politics, make History The issues that vex and
the cares that burden us, will be shifted to their
shoulders. Our counrg's future depends on
them, They are now in, their training state
They are in the school of discipline How mn
Eportant that the training be LIBERAL the disci-
pline thorough " Dsiaiaq 4 no''i'.o.
- The public schools Of our State open on Mon
day next under the new system. We have from
time to time given our readers the features Of
The new Law, and urged the people IAN active
interest in carrying itoqt. Whatever objections
there may be to the new system, it cannot fail Of
much good, under the direction Of so practical
and experienced a leader as the Rev. Mr.. Van
Bokkelen.s5 AT least one great object is gained,
harmony and unity of training throughout the
State. That school system is the best, which is
best MISUNDERSTANDING though the SYSTEM be
perfect, it will fail unless its management is
placed in skillful hands. Iig9 g sligpol ~
-1 The burden ofresponsibilty falls most direct
II upon the Teachers. And when our schools
Open, we hope that each will be supplied with a
Teacher whose heart is in the work, and who is
fitted by nature as well as by training for his
important task 1T isa serious matter to Ucom-
NIT thste,nporal and eternal interests ofOur chill
dreni to unskiled hands. Tt were better for our
school houses to be given up to the rats and spi-
ders, than that men should be placed within
them as Teachers who. have not an elevated
sense of the. responsibility Of their work. and "a
moral and intellectual fitness forits performance.
Great and weighty responsibilities in this mat
ter also rest upon the parents. Without their
hearty aid and cooperation, no Teacher can sue
coed in the work 1t Is painful TO see how, little
interest is manifested BY many parents in the
education of their children, and how ready they
are TO lay 4he entire responsibility on the public
Teachers They toll and worry until their backs
are bentand their hearts are hard as their hands
to give their children. ga start'n in the world,
forgetting that the best t'start' is sound, prac.
teal, moral education If they own fayorite
horse, what care they take of him., what time
they spend in his training, what anxiety they
manifest that he is properly fed and stabbed
The bestg groom isemployed to wait on him, the
best Blacksmith to shoehim. iYetthe same parents
perhaps, commit the immortal destinies Of theil
children to Teacher whom they know not, Of
whose fitness they never inquire, nor do they
ever think of entering the, school-room to see
that tits comfortable and healthy and that the
Teacher is striving to do his duty Ere Etbrd
will not hold people guitIess in this matter !. =
y t'If man could stand on the shores Of the At
lantic and with one blow knock out all the light
houses on ii, would he not be responsible for the
ship-wrecks thatmight occur through the dark
ness2 Esd buBos @sqmg1i egigT1L Jos
And ifa man through avarice or negligence
withholds from his child the light Of truth and
knowledge, is he not responsible for the crimes
that child may commit r. sod mssisgd5a5 5aa