The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-06-26
ADIFFERENCE.

commonly overlooked by those even
who profess to be teachers. It is a
deplorabIe fact that the result of this
oversight or negligence, strews the
paths of the lives of hundreds of men
and women with nmistakaDle marks
of neglected and enfeebled powers,
marks which when interroga-
ted, are eloquent with warnings
that there has been ga first
mistake somewhere" The moral
faculty in man is the in
tended sovereign Of his kingdom, and
if this be neglected in the earlier Pc
RODS of his life, it is clearly evident
that chances are necessarily against
him. 1t is just on this point that the
thought should come home to every
true teacher, with the queries: Are
we employing proper means to meet
the demands of our calling? Do we
take advantage of all the age in
which we live affords, to qualify our
selves for the work before us? Do
we use what we have already &C.
quired ?
Great artists are known all over the
world. The celebrity of their master
ly genius has no confines within the
bounds of civilization; and we, in
gratitude, acknowledge and appreci-
ate this noble, justly earned renown,
and look up to the results of their
labors, as an inheritance which man
can no way more nearly compensate,
than through a studied application
and just appreciation of it's purposes !;
yet we only esteem them as teachers,
indirectly instructing and training
mankind by tangibly perpetuating
ethical principles and memorable his
torical events in the beauties and sub
Unity of finely executed works of art.
A little reflection on this point, must
make the fact quite clear, that the pa
irons of this one school of teachers
comprehend the necessity Of distin-
gushing between instruction and
training,and so combining the two as
to meet the needs of an element in
the true system of education.
By an analysis of the foregoing,we
are led to believe that instruction
consists in jrdiclously supplying a
proper food for the mind while train
eng may be compared to a regular
process Of digestion and assimilation
through which the food is prepared
and distributed in exact proportions
to every member of the mental con-
stitution, thus giving a strength and
symmetrical finish to the whole, not
otherwise attainable. In endeavoring
to ascertain what is contained in
certain applications of synonyms, we
are often put in possession Of few
suggestions which lead to the discov-
cry of principles upon which we can
often safely draw our lines Of action !;
and this to the teacher seems most
important, in as much as their calling
is one, the success of which, in a
great meaeure, depends upon the ia
cllity with which they can adopt a
means to an end with dispatch and
precision.
The great need of our schools at
present, is training,-more especially
ethical training, in the most amplifed
use Of the term. We were in schools
where instruction was abundant !:
where the branches studied seemed
under complete mastery ; yet in all
recitations and associations in the
masks, the crude pictures and lewd
representations on the desks, walls
and doors, is painfully evidenced the
rude and dangerous crags of the
trough ashlar."
The school is a place where morals