Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-05-14
Written for the Herald.
General Intelligence.

and the general ignorance thereb
superinduced The first and mos
+. obvious effect is, in the employing
|, of cheap teachers; ignoring talent
experience, and qualification, ant
. driving them out of this importan
! field of labor; for, "If you wan
the best article, you must pay tht
best price" Ignorance thus being
permitted-hired--to usurp thC
place Of qualified institutions, the
axiom is fully illustrated that "from
nothing, nothing comes" as is the
great law of Natural Philosophy,
that "no stream can rise higher than
its fountain, or source" A lack of
general intelligence is the necessa-
ry result, if not 4 lack OF all intelli-
gence.
2. This mad scramble for dollars
and cents, causes the parent to de-
sire to make all out his child he
possibly can, hence, he keeps him
out of the school (even snch as it
Isl every day he can make it profit
able, sending him only when he
can do nothing else, even grudging
the board and other slight expense
at that!
3. The teacher should teach from
sunrise to sunset, and have no re-
cesses except an hour for noon
This idea is, however, smoked in
the minds of some, while it has
gone out in the minds Of others.
4. "All l want my children learn,
is to read and write, and enough I
'Rithmetic to know how to figure a
little, so as not to be cheated, &c." I
Every hour, you see, spent beyond
this, is dead loss of the dollar. Let
the teacher introduce vocal music,
and soon he has hubbub buzzing
about his ears. "That is a clean
loss of time" Let him attempt to
give few lectures to his classes to
teach them something outside of
The text book, or low to use the
of the text book in prac,
jical life, and he will soon receive a
,all from the directors or from
jome self-constituted committee,
him to ''stop foolin' away t
he time in that thar way" The chill '
.ren are sent to school to study (
he books and fornothing else, Ev- a
ry moment that the eye of the pu-
il (or teacher) is off the book, is e
dead loss And in the eye of b
uch parents, what 'tarnal foolish o
ess is. them fimmadiddles of appa- p
atnscs." Every cent expended in tt
lat line is utterly thrown away! D
aid a patron to me, "I'd take h
own them pieters { outline maps) ?
ON the walls. | seed the schol- L
rs a lookin' at 'em, and not study O
I ther books" And an old lady W
nee told me confdentially, that m
ackboards were an invention of W
c devil, and if had one put up in al
e school house she would never Of
70 thar agin to warship Of a Sun We
VI" and she kept her word i
lese ideas may not now be gen
ally expressed, but arethey obso- pr
tel So far as apparatus is con OF
rned, how many parents begin to tn
preclate the benefits, and how tn
any teachers can use it to any ad so
ntage? Is it any wonder that a VIC
jority of our school rooms are So
stitute ofapparatus p? But l must ca
sist. wi
As to the result of the common inG
lching, take Geography. 1 find Ph
9nty Of young persons who pro- No
is to have graduated in this study, the
when you come to examine vel
I'm thoroughly, while they can as
| all about countries, their bound tha
es, capitals, capes, CULTS, bays, COZ
the like, theV know nothing at ma
of conformation, soil, climate, gro
'ductions, employment, govern che
mt, Influence, religion, manners VIII
| customs, &c., of those coun- rev
IS. They can name the zones, cor
never heard of isotherms, nor Gle
they give the peculiar charac- Sol
sites of the several'zones. pol
IN the subject of atmospheric reb
anic currents and their influence, to
y are dumb, Perfectly ignorant and
,he flora and farma of the earth, ticu
we'll as its Geology In short, gro
y have smattering Of Descrip- mas
but are utterly igno- ten
of Mathematical and Physical the
)graphy. And so it is with re- job
d to all the branches they study; racJ
unfortunately, so it is likely to the
Yet there is some room for well
e, when we compare our pres Ora
status in school matters, with Wa:
1t it was a few years ago. and
ut what we now need is well labo
lifted teachers, and hearty CO. late
ration on the part of parents yers
directors. We must have teach Chi
who are capable of supplying
general intelligence which space A
ids in our textbooks, and they meet
It by permitted to do it-should JacC
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