The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-11-06

ton, what use is il to study this or that?''
And they can seldom convince the child Of
the ''use. Parents are higher authority.
and they are rendering decisions which no
amount of testimony eau reverse. What is
true of badly organized households in other
respects is especially true Of education it is
often unfortunate that children are taught so
much at home. Many parents are ready to
confess that they are not teachers, and have
not an accurate knowledge Of many things
and vet they are teaching their children those
very thiags which they acknowledge they do
not know themselves. Home instruction and
school instruction are continually in conflict,
and the schools generally get the worst oil
tor rather may say, perhaps, the
Children get the worsrofi,. In this direction
II children knew less Of home philosophy
there would be more room fer something else.
livery often runs counter TO the experiences
OF after iife, and they have 10 unlearn II if
/ they accomplish mach Many men Of good
talents are doing nothing IN the world. be-
cause they are trying to act upon principles
taught them ia childhood by those they con-
sldered perfect, and have not strength Of
pleasant to grow into realization OF the
fact that our beloved parents have taught us
many things We ought never TO have believed,
and yet IL is often the case, and should warn
narenfs tn he more .erurafa IN the,r hona
instruction. Home beliefs often act rs
permanent emetic to the mind every &C.
tive and ready to contract it to the disgoree.
ment of all outside opinions. Generous
minds IN alter years, may overcome this
chronic nausea, bat the .ale rams the other
way. Those who do, we often hear SAYING,
~ was taught 50 and so. but in after years
found it different, very CONSIDERABLY
avoiding the plain confession. my parents
taught me so and So bat afterwards learned
that they were wrong. Tins nnquestio,dng
trust Ia home instruction might be made a
powerful agent tor the planting Of correc,
opinions and beliefs, il parents were only
careful to teach as far as they know thor
= N"SAtf sHStAsttFeSt "lu tfttn sl1pt nut on
The contrary, in moments of peinience OF
thoughtlessGess, they often express opinions
lathe presence Of their children which they
DO not really bold themselves. Forgetting that
the children are not partakers of their men.
tai reservation. Thus it comes tha, impress
SONS are stamped on the plastic minds o
The yonng which the parent themselves
would not wish them Hasty opinions are
especially dangerous in the family circle
and certainly IN matters So vital as those o
education, the greatest care should he ex-
erclsed. Committees OF learned men hay,
spent months and years in deciding whefhe
such and such siutiies are indispensable in
course OF education, and yet nearly ever,
father oftwo boys IN our iand could decide i
in as many seconds.
let il be understood that all this apple
only to those to whom it riH apply. Their,
are many parents who have correct ideas OF
the subject and can give safe counsel. or.
they cannot, are willing TO trust To thos,
who can but ~ many instances it is not 40
Too many fathers and mothers are lust hk
! other peopie-liahe to make mistakes.
The specific system of education is be
coming decidedly specific in the direction o
business. When arguing against the heayie
studies, which best disciplin the mind, man,
remark that they wish their boys TO have ,
business education In explaining wha
they mean by this they enamerate general,
nothing more than ''readng, writing, geogra
ply and arithmetic" Some few, with g
generous liberality include "a little algebra. =
without seeming to remember that this is
yearly the most m>business study in the
whole category. business education, by
the definition generally given finds no need
Of grammar. 1t matters little that the word,
ing of a bill makes US bate our mother
tongue, SO long as the columns are footed
; correctly.
. Business, from the trading ola knife for
six pins and pencil, up 10 managing grea,
nation. has its ohoilosophy, its science, and
its art. The well dressed boy behind the
counter, who has pleasant address, and q
talent for making people think as he wishes
them to, is in a fair way to acquire the arr
, of business. Many ofyour commercial men
who have brought their logic to bear on the
laws of trade, and calculated to nicely the
5 relative merits of profit and loss, have come
J to understand business as a science. In
! back of this some few have got possession Of
7 the principles on which all business codes
, must be founded, and they, like monarchs,
, are ruling the finances of the world.
What reasonable man supposes "reading,
: writing, geography and little algrebra, to
be sufficient preparation for viewing these
, three aspects? What must man expect who
. enters this vast arena SO scantly armed : Il
i useless to say give them shis. and they
win pick up xhatalse &aneeded.p MenAre
just as aptto pick, up the wrong thing as
] right, and valuables are not generally lying
round % be picked up they must be sought
after and found, and We Mil generally have
| toreach up instead of dopn to get them.
, To be continued.
Rev. Mr.. DIX, Rector Of Trinity Church
lsNev York, said in . recent address that the
public were laboring under very great de-
: lssiea in regard to The ssans q Smith 'brsp
aN. Aad Stated that instead Of sixty mill
ions estimased in newspaper articles nov
current, i would hardly exceed Gx millions;
!, and that the nst income amounted to but two
handrs1and City sh0slana dollars ysaA