Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-31
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.
Writing


school education that is of more practical
ber eft to us than writing, and none, per-
haps, so much neglected especially in
the country schools. 1t is not an uncom-
mon thing in such schools to find pupils
twelve or fourteen years of age, who can
neither write themselves, or read the
writing of Others pupils too, who have
| attended school at least three months in
th e year ever since they were old enough
to attend school. This shows a neglect
on the part of the teacher. Their excuse
for this neglect, is the want of time to
attend to the instruction of it. This is
the poorest kind Of excuse, and is be
sides, untrue. There is an allotted time
for each days instruction, the teachers to
make the best use of it he can If writ
ing is as necessary an accomplishment as
reading, spelling, etc. why not devote a
certain time to its instruction, as well as
to the others. 1t is we'll known fact to
teachers, that children usually dislike to
write, and unless required to do so will
not write at all, therefore the teacher
should have fixed time each day, in
which all who are old enough should be
required to write. think it unnecessarv
to teach the principles of writing, c-'. :
tally in an ungraded school in the cuun-
try but | do think that a teacher Should
understand them himself, whether he
teaches them or not. One great defect
that they don't know how to write them
selves, and consequently can do very
little toward teaching others. In such
cases they should take lessons of some
good teacher, or get good copies and
study them carefully until they Lnrn
how to write.
A hungarian Brewer has cask at the
Exposition of Industry in Vienna which
holds 1,19531215 gallons.
In 1927 there was BIT one log cabin
school house, with one teacher, in the
county of Carroll In 1872 we find 1O1
public school houses, with corps of III
teachers, and a yearly tuition fund of
over $4,000. How many school houses
and teachers did Marshall county contain
at that time? how many in 1872, and how
much of a yearly tuition fund? Will the
County Superintendent please answer?
/ Ohio county, is the smallest county in
the State, but thc Upicn School building
in the town of Rising Sun, shows what an
effective School Board may do. In the
winter of 1871, the old school house was
burnei down, and the next summer it was
replaced by IA $4,000 one.
EX-Fresident Andrew johnson was
a tailor. and learned to read and write
after he was married Vice President
Wilson, OF Massachusetts, was a shoe
maker. fhurlow Weed was IL canal boat
driver TX Governor Stone, of Iowa, was
a cajinet maker, and so was the late
Stephen A. Douglas, in his youth. Ben
jamin Franklin learned the printer trade
Large numbers of men of prominence
now living have risen from humble life
by dint Of industry, WITHOUT which talent
is as useie 5 as Il gold nugget on barren
island. Work alone makes men bright,
and it does not alone depend on the kind
of work you have to do whether YOU
rise or not. 1t depends on how you do
| it.
When one has learned the value of
spare minutes, he is on the road to sue
cess in life. Many careless people waste
more time every day than is needed to
make them masters of science or a
language, if well used. Some great works
have been written in intervals of ten or
fifteen minutes from regular employments.
any young person who will find an hour
a day tor readi..g, can easily acquire a
vast amount OF learning. Here is an in
stance: There was boy who, at the age
of fourteen was apprenticed to carpenter
he had been taught to spell and read by
his mother to limited degree, and when
he left his home to serve his new master,
he formed the habit to read an hour every
day, or at least at that rate he had an old
silver watch, left him by his father, which
he timed his reading by. He stayed sew
en- years with the carpenter, until he had
become an expert at the trade, and when
he was twenty one years of age, he knew
more than the village school master, and
more than the majority of the young men
Of his acquaintance, who had attended
the Acadamy. Now let US see how much
time he had to read in the seven years, at
the rate of one hour day It would be
| two thousand five hundred and fifty five
| hours, which at the rate of eight hours a
day, would be equal to three hundred and
ten days; equal to forty five weeks; near
ly years reading An hour spent every
day during the course of eight or ten
years in treasuring up useful knowledge
would fill up very large store Is it not
worth your while trying for? Try what
I you can do. Begin now, and in after
years you Will look back upon the task