The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-12-31
Education in Jackson CO....NO. 80
~ D. MAcKLEY.

AsI am very busy this week, at the
Quarterly Examination ofteachers, and
q the Teachers Institute, will fill
this article with two extracts. The frst
ID from the Athens Messenger of last
week, and concludes as follows
The effects ofthis may be seen in ourown town.
Ne boy can be kept in the High School here an-
III he finishes his course. But one boy has grad
uated at the High School here " Ithin 10 yesrs,
snd but have graduated st the University with
the same time yet nearly eVsry boy In town
has been TO College.
Nov how much better In all these cases would
1t have been to have kept our boys 10 the High
School until the course there was eompleted.
II thew had notthen the means to attend College.
tbey Won ID at least have possessed themselves Of
rood common scheo oledUcation--such an edu-
cation a has enabled her sons to give Ohio IN
irst rank among the States OF the Union.
We are In favor of making all there Is to bs
made out Of our Common School system hrst.
The masses receive their education there. Let
us do one thing ct time aud do that well. En-
courage the Common School system nrstRnd all
the time, advance i, gradually bTipgit 70 accom-
pllsh lie design. II is butth few who 20 To
Coegea The Common School system oil this
State was designed to afford advantages 10
the nleeseA before only enjoyed by the few. Our
High Schools ought 10 be in TACT and in truth
"THE PKoPLE's COLLKaEs. Our people have
IL in their power ~ make them 80, and 10 have
their SONS aud daughters educated a. the system
designed ~ educate them, or 10 have them As
they TOO often now are. neither Que nor the 9th.
er--neigher College nor High School scl0lGrs--
but l0afrrs, with no TAnk ia either College Or
SCHOOL, alid with too much false pride 70 allow
them 70 begin study again where they left oil
with college oa The bTaiu.
The Cincinnati Gazette had a long ed.
itorial on Christmas day, which conclud-
ed as follows:
"Men bred in colleges are wont TO attach up-
due impOr tnnce 10 that ~ blch It appears tofhem
they acquired In those seIninaries. Hence they
give The sem inalieAertdit for more than that 10
which they are rptitled. All men are prone to
atlix higher Valye 70 llatin which they have
been 10 that In which they have not beeirini
Structrd. The youth ho gains at college high
,Ftnud IN nallt nAAics. th iiks TINT natLen aticS
! is the branch 70 which oil others should be
| sub0rd mated; he whose strong point has been
the languages, 10 Of similar opinion In respect
! 10 that province Of learning. The truth is that,
| in each eate. the pupll has BIZ upon that which
He bas 20 inI ne the curriculum would permit
Obeyed the law OF natural selection; and, IN dOing
So haS not only acquired some knowledge, bul
has realized also some intellectual growth and
expansion. But. in greAt many cases, neither
the languages nor the nathemat ics nOr any 9th
or Of the branches inc lude. in the college course
or that cOu Id be included, supply the proper ioOd
aud stimulus 10 exertiOn. IliiS one was moi
made tor ths college nor the college for him, and
he leaves the seminary with tue reputation u y
Ounce, which perhaps adheres 10 him long after
he has outstepped both the llngulsL ard tht
nAIhvmaLe elan IN the career Of lie, aud has man.
iiested far superior ability 10 grapple with the
realities Ut axisLence.
Docs the mind grow the labor It performs or
does IL perform laUOr because II has grown 70
working condition? This 10 question WAlcl
the world 10 not quite a. well prepared toansws
nov, ~ when II was unanimously 0t IllU Opln lOl
that The nlind is an independent eh1lty, ~ NJ
sympathy with the body. aud having only cas
ual relation to IT,. Since the inlhqAlas cOlh
" be suspected Of being in some way related 3
Lhv body, II has occurred t0sevcral ln~I lhs pue
nonena Of the one may be III some sol
eYplicAble by those Of ule other. II 10 iOuh'
that every human beughas that which ID tO hlIl
\ nOruual nSgnituds, which eau be Out lttle "
creased by any regimen, though 1t may Dc dl
nnished by iujudleiUus severity while inlnaI
ure; aud II 10 believed Wy b0nV that the same
IhS case with the mind. ltIhiS ls true The min
may acquire facility aud rObusLitude by spou
taneUuls exercisv with In 3 certain limit; but hi
lin IL cannot be transcsuded W ith0ut fatigue an
Injury. As with the body 80 WsLh the mind
useful exerliun-exertion directed 10 q spvcit
productive end--is the best; and hence IL wVul
seem tile beSL discipline for the human being
that which lie realizes In contact with the wur Id
aud amid The activities Of life. But where dos
this conclusion place the semlnarleSi Ii Ih
ideas put torIh BY our moot eminent mOderI
WRITER'S are even approximately sound, upO
J what standard arh VIC " estimate the value I
|, that vast aud costly machinery which VIZ d lgu
ly viii tbs title VI educational, aud ars won't u
contemplate with ~ much prldea I'D satisfaction
Aud Llic question arlses, eau II be Improved .,
/ ~ ~ n0vt real wanL-do actually wnat IL pru
Iesass " dO-ur ls tHe ShorIesE way ~ Tie rIgiI
(. W get I'D Vi IL GaltOgheEg