Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-02-29
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.
For the Educational Column of the Herald.
SOUTH PLYMOUTH, Feb. 4, 1872.

sphere ?" Cd, 'Should music be dai-
ly exercise in our schools ?''
The proof Of the rotundity of the
earth consists of the following facts !:
1st, that it can be circumnavigated !;
ID, an eclipse of the moon shows that
the body which produces the shadow
is globular If the earth was merely
fat surface, then its shadow would
be, sometimes, long and narrow. Sd,
person standing on the sea-shore
when vessel is approaching, sees the
masts and upper part of the rigging
first, yet those parts are the smallest
portions of the vessel. 4th, we know
that the ether planets are spherical,
fer we are certain that they perform
revolutions on their axis. This they
could not do if they were not globu-
lar 9th. Lastly, referring to a prim
ordial law of matter, we know that
when atoms in a fluid state are per-
mitted to arrange themselves accord
| ing to the law of atomic aggregation,
that they invariably form a globe, or
rather an oblate spheroid when the
mass Is made to rotate; and the evi-
deRce is pretty clear that the earth
was once not only a molten mass OF
matter in an incondescent state, but
that it was once an amorphous mass
of vapor or nebula. And in this state
the atoms acting in obedience to the
force which inheres in them would ar
range themselves so as to form 6
globe. Other proof might be adduced
but surely these are sufficient.
The second question, "Should mu
sic be daily exercise in our schools p
Too much cannot be said ner done
to make both vocal and instrumental
music become part of our system o.
common school education. The i'm
portance of vocal music as a necessa
ry part of a system of education can.
not be exaggerated. It should occu
py an important place in all systems
of education for the following rea
sons:
1st. It is q most healthful and in
vigorating exercise, having a tendcn
cy to fill and expand the delicate ali
cells of the lungs. Many persons o
consumptive diathesis by CAREFUL,
exercising the lungs in reading aloud
!; and singing have succeeded in ward
ing off the approach of consumption
and living to good old age.
Singing also exercises the abdomin
al and intercostal muscles which ar,
apt to become weak and torpid b,
too long confinement under our falls
ard pernicious system of education
Singing has also close and intimate re
lation to good public reading, speak
ing and defamation, as it cultivate
the organs ofspeech, making the voic
flexible and obedient to the will.
And last but not least, music, bot
instrumental and vocal, tends power
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emotional nature expresses itself thrc
the medium of the vowel sounds
ConsOnant sounds are the scaffoldin.
: which presents and upholds the sent
: ments; hence we are more effected b
the sounds of music which consist
in the harmonious enunciation ofvov
el sounds than we are by the sent
ments expressed in song; and as th
cultivation of our emotional nature
entirely ignored in all systems of et
ucation, we say by all means teac
!, the children to sing, make it a part
our system of education, and thr
= make one advance at least in the rigl
!! direction, for our whole primary sy
TEN of education is founded on falls
conception of mind
Let it be required by law that mus
shall be taught in our schools.
, The educational column of the He
AID may be made profitable not on
to teachers, but all who are interes
ed in the diffusion of knowledge.
seems to me that if questions to
answered were proposed in this &C
st umn it might become the means
difusing much useful knowledge to Il
masses, rs it is an acknowledged Ia
of logic that our conclusions must
ways be as our premises are, and
, education is the granted premise fro
which we draw conclusions and inft
ences when speaking of the develo
ments of mind propose the folio
ing question: "What is education
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