The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-12-03


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-, For the LANCASTER Gazette. i...
SCHOOLS.---No. 8.
." 'Undoubtedly'.a respectable quail
ifcation ip reading, writing, and |
common arithmetic, forms the ba'
sis of education to be acquired in
our public schools, and is equally
importantto all. And by respect
ability in, these rudimental branch
es, thoroughness, as far as the ca
pacities Of children and the faeili
tics employed are concerned, is
meant. And we may as, well say
that, beyond these, !. English, gram
mar, the outlines oftcrrestrIal and
celestial geography, history, bota.
ny, chemistry, and natural and
moral philosophy, shouldbe taught,
as essential .brancbes of common
school education. But these con
stitute but small part, as | shall
try to show, Of what rational edO-
Ecation, in: its widest sense, means.
But first, have some objections to
speak Of, as against our schools in
OHIO, as at present conducted.
| | Dayo, noticed that pupils, as
soon as they are adjudgcd sufficient.
ly advanced TO enter the '-high
school department, ,'arctransfcrrcd
and without the least regard to
their capacities for more difienlt
studies, their tastes in that Tcspec,
', r,lLe choice of parcntsi required,
all, to take up the same studies aud
, 10 advance together in classes. :
! ! These higher studies ! understand
to be, Algebra, Geometry, Trigo.
nomotry, Astronomy, Botany, &c
ology, &C., &c. or course I DO mo-
5 intend 10 object 10 tLese studies il
! our High Schools; very far from it
What l do object to is the requir
ing the sameratio ofadyancc in al
!, pupils alike; or expecting anything
like it. Children. can no more keel
n together in hard studies at school
than they can all equally compre
hend and execute the art Of sing
n ing and playing music; and ever,
g one, even of the commoncst obser
vation, knows, that there are eve
ry conceivable grade in the hatu
IS raj abilities of persons to Under
stand or perform music, from
Beethoven or a Paginini, down I
e, one who, though even lcIassica
" scholar, could not for his liio te
Y whether it were OId Hundred {
Yankee Doodle that was bein
played. Nature has made I'll
ground work for all our artist
and the reasons why cdonot 70
low her indications are found
our dullness. This is my fist o.
lection, at.r "a, 'gHa" ...H.
or You have q son that you desi
Ill., should have a rational, comnio
: sense education, given to him wit
in reasonable length Of timei b
cause you design him for q bu'
, ness man or farmer. You are
verse to his getting a notion Of
It's profession, or Of being a divine, in
his head, because you think hec
Es be divine behind the plow, or I
S% cds counter, or at the mechanics ben
or in. thopulpit. But you have
:. remedy, You place him in I
us, com nor. school al six;-and at olE
sell Teen he comes out z"grddudtc
a . having spent twelve years gettl
ons an education that you think
it%, should have got, or at least wi
rOm saIs you wanted him to have, in tb'
and years. Ifyou could have had "
X choice; and you ought to have
- it, YOU would have confined y'
. boy to such studies as were to mi
him . sensible, practicable, g
IerIy IerS man and citizen, and left out
tier, ter that first, he had taste and gen
IN. m : for, and that which was never
n%S be of any uso to him And In
aSr, ,two that you would have, been rig
- for since We have but a brieflif'
- live, its every hour shouts ultt be lea
.ua tionally employed In tthi4 tthi4 p'
graph will be fopudhvery br'
stated, the outlines OF my sec
a objection to some Of the tna condn'e e
=. our common schools in Ohio.
| understand that the Eng
q ,uI schools, of tho grade correspond
TO ours, are 90 arranged that
= rcnts and guardians choose "
~ studies their. children and WI
.'F'' arc to have. So far as this ma
.Io true, IL is, or should, be an eS""
' 10 usgi;gI Euar 9dT ~ ono
20" l propose in following p'
. l.i to show what more, dnGes,Sn p I
cation means, j .gla St4TQ