The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1870-01-11

Atlls hrthsr lhan tisss, tas i ~ I'll tundamsnla
~erk. II i primary Il : isaTiing ths ass d
ths teeis witt vhish scbolsr may snisA up ii,
saaeAtsan. This Is eae q ths asvt designs u ,
school honse aud school 30 dout4 10 rnslrue
the ehiidren IN ,he arst pinap1s~ Q, human
lesrnlng sut u uhoss lAws and appliances a.,
mind ~ the child ls lnyigessted ~ sAred heal
ties matafea shd equipped Cor active and aseia
lheugat ,sa laeOx ia ghs - EIpersencs trsehs'
us that 40 man or woman il ii a oonaluon 10 oe
euYy the poston designed q ne Creator. as,lsss
there is this amount Of mental cultgTe attained
Ia some way, and AsA genera thing only attain
ed ia our primary aeesols. There are eKcsptions
indeed, bot how far below true manhood and
womAnhood doos Ehs person fall thai cam read
q write How dwarf Tie mind Hos inca.
pAble 10 enter upon and discharge the fair dasses
q An American citizen Ignorance here, is also
crime against dod and man. We need only
ask ourselves, what Il AL oar ehildren were n.
iowcs " grow up without Any knowledge eener-
hlly spqaired Ia our eonEnon srhOols. What kind
u spsietg woud be t,as result, whAt wosiid real
estate be worth in such community : Could
thore be any order or religion there. any homes
Would il not become the hot bed q AL iniquity
and corruption and cnmr z
But you understand ali this, that there is no
true manhood or NomanhoOd for this life, with
ont Al least fair education o. the minds Of the
children in the branches o. study, usually taught
10 our common schools. And more, il il remark.
hble how the peeuhAritios oi character marked in
our con,moa schools. therein gendored OF foster
cd, GO with the person through lifo, There are
exceptions it is true, but generally II your child
Is negligent, careless, loose, OF slip shod In his
habits Of study II he win not think or acquire
DOW, he will be the same all through his days. 1t
is in tho primary school ~ well As in the family
where the strong bents Of tho mind are made.
That crooked tree yondor became 30 in its ten
der and ssppmg days. That straight and beau
tiful tree teas sci OFT rigM and true. and more
over, 10 relation TO these fundamental branches
of study, every school house and every teacher
should be- notorious cor their character, earnest
and persistency in the acquisition at least Of all
the good thero is. in all Of these branches Of
etudy, aud cloar and full appreciation and mas
terry Of them. The min OF the child not only
needs to be educated in the science Of numbers,
but in the science Of fact and Of language. Some
children are very fond Of Que branch Of study,
and not Of another. They may be harmlessly
allowed their preference perhaps, to certain OK
tent but not to the exclusion " those studies nat
aey do not like 50 cell However this ma, be
What we build school houses for is that our chill
dfep shall be deeply and thoroughly trained in
all those branches Of study that time and expe-
rience have settled al young minds need, for a
real aud fundamental education, and for useful
neas IN the t1) as citizens or christians. This
amount Of education must be insisted upon, and
made universal in spite 81 misers, the Popes or
the devil. One Of the corner pillars OF the fabric
Of national glory Is Intelligence among the mass
cs Of one people. Cost what it may, we must Sc
cure this, or as a nation we soon reel Ike drunk
ards into the pit Of national ruin
But to conclude to make this school house,
education really conducive TO tho equipment Of
men and women 10 all the forces of a true life
for that Is Whist we are afterthe making OF
children such As God designed them 10 be, and
know by their capacities you are well aware
that the forces OF will and Of character that lie
abAck Of the mind must be under the sway OF
Right and Goodness. And, hence the first thing
in the school house, as in one family, which the
child must learn morally, is Submission 70 right
6l rule or authority Now order is the first law
Of nature.
What work would the heavenly bodies make
unless they wheeled iu absolute order What
work can mechanic do, or merchant, or anybody
unless he has in his mind the law Of order as a
supreme force What kind Of a house wife will
any Of these girls make unless she is taught to
do one thing at time, and do all things decent
lg and in oider?
The idea is, II is natural for the human mi to
be restless uneasy under the law Of supremacy,
whatever it is. The will Of children loves to be
free, 10 have it's own way, to leap and jump from
one thing to another, and not yield TO any supe-
Nor force, to the authority OF law or order. To
overcome tins fearful trait in fallen man, the pa
ront has the FIRST and largest work TO do, to
teach educate his or her child in the lesson OF
submission to lawful authority out Of which alone
can ever come order order as a habit Of thought
or will or purpose
1t ia hard work to iudoctrina!e Young America
on this point Yankees are hard 10 learn this
lesson, but all school houses are worse than a
farce ell schools are worse than q mo-kry unless
this understood in them that there is aud must
be submission to iGtrtul authority, don't mean
tyrany and meanness, partially and hard knocks
but mean true and wise authority, that SO guide
aud swsys the npeniug forces Of the mind of the
child that made calm, musical, harmonious and
sweet ia their order, aud exercise, that the
man or the woman shall have every thing in its
place and place for every thing, shall feel the
restraint aud the freedom of thought and pur-
pose, Of law and Of authority, aud yield to what
is true and right from hIcd habit Of the
mind.
Who does not like 10 do business with an or
derry minded business man, who does not like 10
watch the movements Of merchant whose siil
and thought move ia harmony, or Of a carpenter
and joiner as with clear head be adjusts hls
mixed up tinbcrs, prepares them for bis frame
aud then have every ioiut ht in well, ss IL made
fuT ir place All this, aud much more, is the re-
suit Of submission 70 ta,gia authority when a
child The mind works by the lAW of order and
this IL uue thing tina, we want Of school houses
and school teachers, that they help raiso up a
generation, not Of Wild and lawioss Arabs Or rude
and uuggaeraed and ungoyernabie hyonAs, but
Of well educated, snd well harmonizod men sud
women, Nhose entire begng has come under the
higher forces q that law u God, that educes or
der out At chaos, and peace from war.
We build school houses al a large expense We
employ teschsrs and put cur children under
their care, ior these objects, among the many
others migb, name, that they nay become 10
teilgent law abiding and useful eitlzens. that
they may know how in The legitimate use u their
education, their study and reading. tleir train
ing 10 vote night Al The ballot box, 70 exercise
their influence m calm And digniaed sell control.
that they may yield their whole being 10 thass
higher iES, o. truth, u ofd.r u ssH control,
~hose obedience make the true chris,ta mAn,
the true temperance man the true patriot, the
real aud useful citizen.
And D. ve not know that good school houses