The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-01-23
CORRESPONDENCE.
(For the CkIG)

(for the ChsCJ
TAs Importance Of Reform Syse Of Classification for all
the Common Schools cf the State.
EDToR CHIEF Tho subject of common schools finds a
frequent place your valuable paper and numerous
readers look with interest from week to week to find
what about schools There part of the sub
of schools that rarely touched upon Ii In uni
formity in classification By this it is not meant uniform
ity of Textbooks but uniformity in studies in all the
schools of any particular Townshp County in the
entire State.
Uniformity books in any particular school pro-
vded for in law of the State and IL IL made the duty
Of the District Board that they shall require uniform
series Of be used in each separate branch in
each school" tSes school law page 9 Sec, 49, 1t
may BE that District Boards seldom attend to this
most important duty and often leave the matter to the
price of inexperienced teacher what s TO
the oibss Of parents whose early scqusments
better than those good old Drsooa Honespun Who
didn't his children Instructed any further than the
three Rs: Reading Rting and kithmctic. That educa
tion good enough for him. he sad and he thought
his children might get along we'll enough with the
he could" 1t 10 believed that many books in
have had their day and that their usefulness has
ed Besides there crowded upon children ton many
books In . series; and many chd and parent too il
asdy deluded when they suppose such buy girl must
be good scholar because they have gone up read in
the Sixth Ninth Reader I'm the Fh part Of Ge
ography, the Fourth part Higher Arithmetic. Ee-
mentay instruction Is little insisted upon And this
too. should be more thorough.
Education docs not consist in the acquisition Of
knowledge but is rather the development cspaci
ties Of the mind for such scqustons Some may agree
that semade scholars the best yet it Is be
bered that seucaton Is always purchased at the cost
Of immense waste Of effort Hence the necessity for
schoos And then the important work of classify
ing grading according the advancement Of the pupils
This to b- Is no light task IL done properly
Especially is it difficult in State Kansas where
parents and children have from many other States
and countries Take in ordinary school, say Of
sixty pupils and 60 with them the places Of their IA
tivity; five from England four fr"m Ireland
Scandinavian, eight frm New England six from
New York three from Pennsy ylvans fum Ohio
four from illinois, three from Missouri and thirteen whose
nationality Is in kansas Now in schools these various
elements need harmonizins. and these pupils must be
brought into classes very little profit will be obtained
good accomplished Now. should this work be left for
the teacher do alone, Very often the teacher is
ger both children and and he she cannot in
day. week month learn the exact advancement of pu
pills properly to class them where they belong
member of the District Board parent who is
true friend of education, afford to spend two
hours day in school with the teacher and assist very
much in this important work Parents should certainly
feel deep interest in the education Of their children and
any community should have a laulable ambition make
their school best is possible make it, Besides the
State has important interest in school in it, III
to the profit of State expend the public money for
the development Of its internal and the extend
ing Of its internal improvements. how much it
be to its profit to develop the minds ct its children and
youth who to be its citizens its rulers Judges
and its Senators
The development of mind, without which there he
lasting wealth. harmony Of intercourse,
terry by of nature. genuine morality and
queny real civilization should not be left to the arr