The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-06-21
UNION SCHOOL.


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E'' A'9""''-ih your i"7' wee" Is
sue we attempted to show that District
and Select schools, managed though they
miabt he Inv C,iihrnl and skilled teachers
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ed them 10 90 ana Whieh 'h'y arc "''''A-
ed Tor not doing. The one radical vice
Oh Su'h p'""''ouo"' ''"'"'"S '@' Us we
said, Just ihls--cIa.-'a must lie mu'tp.i-|
II the special needs AMI at,ainmcu;s Of
each nui.u oro crn.o'.,1 ~ ou h.vonl
The nawrr of any on, t,,chrr to do thom
even show Of Justice nj tAo r,citaiion
Vbat c,n he 4, in ,ba ,c... nj r.s.l,;,,
tbc d,,';c1ltice that h.eat a ,i,.. +, rrac-
tions or or oxhon.t;o- s,,',,, in C,o.-
ranbv or Grammar mal.ra himself Ger.
tain tl.ai bv each ecI,,yr hs has ls.n
tloro,rllv uular..o,J cnl ,r,.j-a'y t,c
MD o..l ro,lcd has b.cn rendered.
CbiiIrcn from 3 70 II loan uron tb.;r
teacher and deoorl upcn IN, u.rtltou
far more than when older, They attend
school not so much TO study A. TO be
taught. Thcv don't vet know how to
study. no text bool; can so siunliry and H.
lustrote. and apnlv rs to interest and
instruct them. and even if If could buy
murh more Significance 10 . Child world
tbe Iv;rr teacher bnvo Than tl,, dr,d
lines of the naoe botorc him.
Tho ,nolhrr must uour into such li~
own lie, iransmu;c all ma acquisitions INTO
the p1pu.um they need, lay tribute upon
al he has learned by study AMI grown
M into by experience, tax his in
/ g'"aiy IN the way Oh comparison AMI IL
luSiration draw upon ms iHnI oi an
ccdotes and stories, recount Al7 personal
experiences ana do IL 'ul 50 sp@m1rg tie
knoWiedSe he is nnpar''ng !ha! tbc school
shall be the one attractive place 70 the
child anu TO learn the one exercise Tor
which lie has most appetite. But no
thing oi tins can be done when there Il
80 much to DO Ills great care is TO file
his classes ont "on time and di7band
them IN time tor the next squad.
Nothing worth your notice shall You
see IN the ordinary school room but the
regularity with winch pupils fall into line
in the little vacant area around the stove,
toe the mark and then about face and
march TO their desks when the formula Of
recitation has ended.
II tins system, III winch our grandiath-
ers, fathers AMI we ourselves grew up and
learned the little we knew before the
Academy received us,were the ''summum
bonum' aitalnabie, why, we would be the
last ones TO stab it in the columns Of n
public newspaper and turn over its body TO
the undertaken for burial, but we all know
that in other states and in other parts Of
this state the Graded School is supplant-
ing ii and that wherever these are planted
no district or select school can ever strike
root again. The educational demands
and needs are 50 satisfied in them that
nothing of Il lower grade than College,
/ to which they are tributary, can flour
ish by the side of them. If amy one
place more than another ought 20 have
such a school it is that favored by u
/ College. As is the head so you expect
the body and limbs to be, AMI rice rersa,
you can Judge the officer in the private.
Heaven save Middlebury College from a
/ Judgment based upon Addison Co. Gram
mar School and the two brick house
schools that, on opposite sides of Otter
Creek, divide the patronage Of parents