Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1867-02-01

CUR PUBLIC scHooLs.-Cn the Oath uit, VIC
took stroll and wended our way. in company
with Mr.. Buttkereit. to the large brick School
House, where the young idea is ..shown how
to shoot. We were first introduced into the
PRIMARY DEPARTMENT..
at which place we might probably spend sew
eral terms Of school to grea, advantage as
the teacher, Mrs. Dillman, would most likely
very much improve cur intellectually, as sic
seems to be well posted in the several bra nch.
es. We like her mode Of i:apar,:ng instruc-
ton very much: it is appropriate, and well
calculated to give the pupil clear and thor.
oush idea of the lessons taught The chill
drea under her charge seem to do well,
and are advancing rapidly. We could no,
however, endure the noise AMI confusion OF
those little fellows.s 1t may not always be
thus; however, we hope not. With this ex-
cepton we fully endorse h or in the manage.
ment of the school SO ia as observed Weare
aware that it is very difficult to keep those
small ones nything like quiet.
We next visited the
THIRD DEPARTMENT,
under the charge Of Miss Rogers, who seems
we'll adapted to the profession Of teaching
Every thing seemed in apple-pie order, and
the scholars were all trained to the work of
attending to their avn affairs but here, too.
however, we Think little too much confusion
reigned; but all things considered, we think
hnfh fl,nS, Ia,
After leaving this last Department of the
Public School, we were then conducted to the
SECONDARY DEPARTMENT,
under the charge Of Miss Jennie Mcknight
who too, seemed in her genial element and
perfectly at home. The pupils here too were
attentive to their studies, and shew ed tact and
skill in their Rotations. Here again, the
same criticism OF too much confusion applies.
Our next stopping place was in the
FIRST DEPARTMENT,
that conducted by Mr.. Stewart, the Principal
OF the Public School. The exercises in Alce-
bra, performed on the black board, showed
good deal of discipline and would do credit to
any school; they were very much better than
the majority Of recitations made in our col
leges. In the performing Of these examples,
however, little Of the Literary filchiEg pro
cess was INDUCED in by some of the schol-
ars. while one or tao in the class went through
with the examples very readily; others turned
Sleeps eyes at them and played copyist' a
little too much to suit our fancy The recita>
ton exercises in spelling were well conducte
The changing Of states for criticism in spell
ing was soon completed, and those states
marked 90" 81 and .'2,' were turned up in
fair view very suddenly and adroi,ly; but those
with 49, "a" and u.s. though few in num-
Der, were we'll trained to play 'hidc me be-
hind the curtain" very nicely. A little more
Of the quiet would noa come amiss in this De-
partment, also.
There seems to be quite COOL deal Of in
terest taken in the Public School Of this place
by the citizens. The schools are we'll at.
tended, aud We think we'll conducted. This.
We are glad 70 see; rs upon our common
schools depend the veal or voc Of our nation.
i destiny. Where ignorance and supersti-
lion carries the day, school houses are very
scarce; but when ntelligence, virtue and en-
ightenment beam oft, then you will see the
school houses dotting the country through in
NIL directions In going into a town our FIRST
inquiry would be, have you good local paper |?
and the second would be like unto it,: hare