, 1872-03-16

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through practical experience, to find means
to this end. The following measures,
which appear to me tending to this end,
[ shall, however, venture to point out.
The schools should be either fundamen-
tai, giving instruction in reading, religion,
ciphering, and writing, with exercise in
English photography and composition, or
higher schools, in which the branches OF
instruction, besides these here mentioned,
might be as many and as learned as may
be desired and successfully studied but III
all the schools the instruction given should
be scientific, not memorative only. The
~strictest and most unflinching compulsory
attendance to the instruction, whether fun
damental or higher, should be laid on all
children. For the fundamental instruC-
ton the Government should find good pub
lie localities for the higher instruction
private localities might also be allowed to
be used but the whole matter, whether
conducted in public or private houses,
should be under constant supervision OF
the school-director, who,-keeping, IN all
places of instruction, protocols OF the chill
dren entered, their age when entered into
the school, and also their degree OF know
ledge, ascertained by himself, and after
wards teadily-controlled,-migh easily
watch and appreciate the merits Of the
teachers as we'll as of the pupils. Ration
al beings, having an object in view, will
use the means necessary to gain their OBJ
iect: in the late American war President
Lincoln's object was to put down the re-
bellion therefore General after General
was superseded by q more efficient man.
The object ola School-directOr here should
be to put down barbarism among us: the
efficiency of his Generals, the Teachers,
in there warfare against this enemy
here, should also decide their continue
ton in command. Both towns are, OF
course, equally entitled to the benefit OF
a higher instruction, if they want to make
use of it, and the facility of getting either
a fundamental or q higher instruction
ought, therefore, to be even in both towns,
and to be equally supported from the pub
lie funds, and any man of scientific attain
ments, who might wish to undertake the
functions of a schoolmaster, ought to have
a chance to be tried, that all powers, which
might be conducive in advancing the good
cause, might be taken into requisitlon and
be publicly encouraged and rewarded in
proportion as they deserve it. Such a COM
petition would secure to the Public the
best instruction, that can be had here, and
free the inhabitants from that hateful guar
dianship of self-constituted caterers for the
spiritual wants of their children, which
has hitherto proved SO fatal to all spiritual
light and moral life among us. In "incon-
siderable and primitive places" where
every thing is unsettled, optional usage is
necessarily resorted to: in this manner all
laws have originated, and this expedient is
here recommended as a preliminary step to
standing neutrality-suspicious. founded on trial.
Many cooks, not a bit wiser in making
nourishing broth for the mind than | am,
are now trying their hands at this kind of
cookery | may therefore, perhaps, hope
forgiveness from judicious and gentle peo-
pie for having here, in my way, tried to do
the same that many a malicious sheer
from "the latter days" pharisees will be
called forth by my boldness, I know very
well !; but their s~neering shall treat with
that contempt, it deserves.
JOHN NICOLAS MOSSEEN.
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