The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-08
OUR SCHOOLS.

tion OF our space 10 the puDncation o.
articles bearing upon the educational
interests of this city and State. Tht
communications, with which some O.
your number have favored us, all relate
to important topics and will be fount
we'll worthy Of perusal. The genera
favor with which our proposal to ode
vote portion of each Tuesdays issu,
of the REGISTER to the cause of Educa
tion," has been received, warrants the
assurance that your cordial co-opera
tion in conducting this department
will not only please the reading public
but will promote the best interests Of
that noble cause to which you have ded'
icated your energies and your lives. We
therefore renew our invitation to al
our teachers to send us for publication
such articles As they may bo pleased to
prepare upon subjects connected with
the general management of our schools
Correspondence upon the samo topics
from parents, pupils and Others inter
ested in the work of youthful instruc'
tion will also be welcomed to place IL
this department.-ED. REGISTER
Letter From Professor White, stare
superintendent.
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA,
nynr nE FREE SCHOOLS,
WHEELING, January LIST, 1867.
Editor Of the Register:
l have read with qualification the
articles of your correspondents, "Aipha
and "Delta," on educational subjects
Your cordial invitation to myself to nst
vour columns as medium for diffusing
intelligence in reference to our school,
operations, is another evidence OF the
interest that our people are beginning
to manifest in this direction. Most OF
our county papers have opened thell
column, to our school officers and Other
friends of education, while one, the
West Virginia State Adrocate, devote'
one fourth of the entire paper to essays
and correspondence on educational
matters.
Having visited nearly every county
in the State for the purpose OF AIDING
school officers in organizing schools
and securing teachers, holding insti,
tute,. forming county associations, and
leeturing to the people, l am pre-
n,red To say that with some
further aid from the State Leg,
islature, in the way of obtaining good
lecturers or teachers for institutes, ano
the establishment OF central hiSl
schools for counties, and above all tnt
erection of Normal School, our puDHc
schools will become an honor TO the
State and ultimately 4 source OF reve'
nue.. NV third annual report is IN the
hands of the public printer. AS Alpha
sucpests it would certainly increase the
zeal of our Ieoplc if the documents
from the Department of Free Schools
were published more extensively. AT
nresent. however, the school revenue Is
foo small to secure as wide q diffusion
of such information rs these reports
would give. You have, Mr: Editor, an
efficient corps of teachers in your city
public schools. Communications from
them would doubtles enhance the inter
est in your educational column.
Very Respectfully,
State Superintendent of Public Schools
rrs,ositIon TO Principnls Rnd Teach.
crA.
Editor Of the Register:
understand that tho design Of your
Educational column is not to pronounce
high encomiums upon the genius OF our
common school system; not that we who
arc to contribute should wrcathe foE
ourselves rich garlands culled from the
fine flowers Of Rhetoric, as we wander
through the misty labaIynth Of thought
whose grand empire extends from the
loftiest conception Of fancy, where rea'
son sits enthroned enid the lustre OF
unfading laurels," down to the feeblest
expression of genius; but that we arc
to give plain, original, practical facts
pertaining to the common schools oi
this city.
By giving hints of our system OF dis
cipline, we may learn, one OF another,
how good order in our schools may best
be secured.
Parents may thereby learn something
of our workings, and by knowing labor
,rith, instead of against us, as Is now too
often the case.
In this light, then, I make the follow,
ing proposition to the Principals and
Teachers of this city
Let the teacher keep an account OF
the scholars under his or her charge,
who are in attendance every half day,
never tardy, perfect in department and
recitation during the present term com.
mencing on Monday of this week and
ending the last school day of March
next.
That l may be the better understood,
1 will make q report of this weeks at
tendance &c, in my room.
These reports may be made every
week, every month, Oreyery term, CIV
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faithful scholars who stand high on the
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