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course, had to clear out the two Gentle
men Stridiron and Ripperger, who, with
no classical education, had succeeded get
ting positions as second teachers, have not
only had a proportionaIly large income
during a long and uninterrupted position
first as such and subsequently as first teach
ers in our only two public schools, but
even thereby acquired a right to obtain a
pension for such services, as they, respec-
lively, nave been able to render, whereas
a superior qualification in me, publicly &C
~knowledged by two consecutive constitu-
tions, given me by a judicious and impair
tial Government, to act as first teacher in
both schools, and evinced by proof of my
efficiency, gained me, after a few years
faithful e%xertion in my calling, an abrupt
from any right to apply for any kind of
public reward.-Where selfish hirelings,
aiming at nothing but gain and ease, are
dispensers of the public interests ola coun-
try, that country, must go down, and it is
therefore quite natural, that, since Govern
or General Won Scholten's time, this island
has been gradually sinking. Will it soon
get up again2
AS to the other historical fact, / alIude
to, viz. "that many men, brought up in the
Burgher-School, have proved good book
keepers and managers" | shall only OBJ
serve, that it ought to be known, by what
teachers in the Burgher-School such men
have been brought up for schools can
exist both without school-houses and
sc~hool-money, but not without teachers, i. c.
persons really able TO teach others and
really engaged in doing so, whereas igno-
ramuses, stuck up by blind or partial lead
ers with the name of teachers and paid for
being called so, are thereby made teachers
lust as. much as a brass-cOunter, stamped
as q ducat, becomes a ducat thereby. I
am truly sorry, that the old article in No.
SO for 1865, alluded to in my article in
No. 6 for this year, can not be laid before
the Public again, being, as l suppose,
crowded out by other (more important y
matter for in that article this very sub
iect, among other subjects Of no Inferior
interest, has had an ample calculation /;
however, "what can not be cured, must be
endured" at least out here.
But what ought then now to be done2
It is notorious, that the public instruction
here is, and has been tor years. utterly
worthless. It is notorious, too, that that
state of things has been brought on and
upheld under the screen of so-called School
commissions, who have ushered in and
connived with their own creatures, to the
exclusion Of qualified applicants. Where
radical evils exist, radical means must be
used to eradicate them. Therefore | say:
Away with the School-commissions, and
let, for the whole island, be appointed o
School-director o Dictator, to save it from
humiliation by barbarism, as, in ancient
time, Dictators were elected to save Rome
from humiliation by barbarous enemies.
But let a man be appointed, who is neither
an abscurantist, nor a party-man, nor an
egotist-three peculiarities not at all I'M
common in men in holy orders-and who,
moreover, is conspicuous by an indepen-
dent spirit, energy and activity that he
may be at any place at any time, when
least expected, in order to be able to see,
hear-and judge for himself. This is the
first requirement : for. without q good
Primus Motor, the whole school-machinery
must stop, and as a School directors great
and, ! may say, only aim at present ought