New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-15
SOUTHERN EDUCATION.

Since publishing our remarks Of the 5th instant,
on Southern Edueaton,n we have seen COPY
Of circular issued by the State superintendent
Of public education to the several police iuries
throughout the State. He invites their attention
to the school law of 1885, and suggests new
division of the parishes into school districts the
appointment of boards of examiners to inquire
into the characters and qualifications of teachers,
and the careful accretion of the small apportion-
ments from the school fund Of the State until
enough shall be received to employ COM
petent teacher for at least nine months service"
He recommends that district directors employ no
teachers except those having certificates from
the examining board. He advises the chairmen
of the several boards of directors to meet and
confer with the members of the examining board
respecting the condition of schools He advises
the course Of instruction to be pursued, which is
to embrace spelling, reading, writing, arithmetic,
English grammar, composition, defamation
geography the history Of the American Statee,
and the rudiments Of natural science, This advice
is all good for our able superintendent is distin-
guished and very earnest laborer in the cause of
education. IT his wish could be accomplished.
we are quite persuaded that no white child of this
State would be without the benefits of some sort
OIL ROOu euuCdtl0Hs Dub INC pSst vi dh HIS
adyice-the gem of his circulars his recon-
mendation to the educated young men of Louisi-
ana to engage in the good work of teaching. He
says nothing in disparagement of teachers from
abroad, but he plainly indicates that when we
" want anything well done we had better, always
do it ourselves
In this particular we especially and mosst heartily
endorse and second his suggestions. Whether the
| work is done through the machinery of the schoo
system or by independent schools, it seems to be
the duty of the educated young men Of the Soutf
to go seriously at work in this great and vital
| terprise. Let them show their gratitude for the
benefits of the good education which they have re
ceiyed by imparting the same to their young
brothers and sisters, to the ignorant children o
their neighbors to the orphans of their dead com
panions in arms, to the uneducated boys who lef
books for camp, and who now need little educa
ton which they are net too old to get. They
have shown the most chiValric, unselfsh, gener
GUS spirit in their labor, priyations and daring il
the cause of their native land let them now show
as noble devotion to the welfare Of the children
of the State. The vocation of the teacher wa
never otherwise than respectable; in the pTesen
impoverished condition of the South it is the worl
of philanthropy, it is patriotic, it is noble. Rober
3. Lee sets thema heroic example, Many dis
tinguished generals of the South have become
teachers The widow Of Albert Sidney johnson
supports her young family by teaching. Governor
Allen was once o good sehsolmaster, and was al
ways proud of having been so. The ablest and
best of our great men have been teachers Of
schools. 1t is at any time highly honorable occu
potion, although too often entrusted to mereenary
hands. Now, and here in our desolated land it Il
more than honorable, 1t is duty, sacred obliga
ton The children of the State must not be left to
grow up in ignorance. Much is due from those t.
whom much has been given. Noblesse oblige
Educated young men must impart the light thei
minds have received. It viii do them no hurt, bu
be positive benefit. He twice learns whath ha
once successfully taught. If man wishes to be
come teacher and leader of men, let him frs
| learn to be sound and thorough teacher of youth
II he would know mankind let him begin his grea
study among children, and in the sehool-room
The young men who, with cultivated and trsinet