The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-11-19
For the Lancaster Gazette
SCH0OLS---NO. 2.

A heart full Of kindness and true
politeness, is ono OF the evidences
of o rational education. Are our
American schools, as at present
systcmatizod, likely to accomplish
all we need for a higher and better
state of society? What are The OBJ
jects, aims and ends Of oducalion2
Does the subject take the prece.
donce in all our minds that its i'm
portance dcmandsp Do we ration.
ally comprehend what education
means2 Are any of us ready TO
stop in our frantic rage TO get mon
ey, and houses and lands,an great,
or at least Independent wealth,
long enough to ask ourselves what
it is that we really want our chill.
drcn to be taught2 | shall not err
if l say that i am sure that not ono
in one hundred ofparcnts ever secs
the inside of n school house from
years end TO years end. Many
who arc interested with the finan.
cial and educational care of our
schools are nearly equally delin-
qucnt in this respect. Wo have u
system. We pay our taxes; build
school houses; and hire teachers
according 10 our financial abilities;
and then console ourselves that We
have n school; and so, having no
much Of our oUH business to at
tend to, wo are quite content TO
lot the school take care of ITSELF
| have heard many mothers say 1t
was a relief to them to get their
children off to school out of the
way, And no | must have this
matter understoodi in tho outstart,
that there is an almost criminal an.
athy pcrvading tho communities
everywhere, as TO what children.
are learning, or what il is impur.
tant for them to learn. .a..' 81.
1t has boon IL settled conviction
with me for many years. that we
aro committing tho fatal orror Of
educating the heads of tho rising
generations 80 far in advance OF
the hearts, that We can only look
for race OF sharporsj Of calcula-
tors; of money makers; possessing
littlo, dwarfcd, starved, lilliberal, il
not oven depravod souls, Mere
mathematics, or grammar, or his,
tory, or geography, or letters, or
elocution, or logic; though neccssa.
ry, and even important; arc not
going to mako truo mon and truo
womon. We have humanities that
are to bo cultivated; we have souls
that are to bo expanded; wo have
charities and noblo sentiments
born in us Of heaven, that need
culture; and if our schools are
leaving those to bc overgrown with
weeds, and ehokcd out, IL is time
we were finding fault, we have tho
right to find fault, .a unu.u
1t is poor apology for oduca.
tion it We spend all our resources
in instilIing into our childron's
minds, political and financial econ,
omy; how TO become fashionable
gentlemen and ladies; sectarian
views, only, of what NO call rolig.
ion; and oil tho while keeping be.
fore their minds tho leading idoa,
that to DO successful in life, it is
indispensable ogetlthoi inside track
and keep il, oven il in doing 40
they must run somo one else Off
tho track. We teach good precepts
in our schools; know wo do, that
ia we speak thom but our lives are
to shameful extent living libels
on tho wordswe speak. s HsH
But | am not going to write NOR.
al essays on the state society--I
should find so much to say that it
never could be all said. | propose
to speak Of schools as they are:
and | hopo that readers will help
me TO analyzc them, SEXTUS. "
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4 Chattanooga voted as follows:--
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