The Cecil Whig., 1874-08-15

lie Is the most effective me
growing evil and if deen
my defence is that l have
1T to use it.
'eks are a necessary evil-s
the smaller dose of eithert;
ter. 1t was, 1 think, Prossol
, made the remark, that her
lolar going home with Id Of
he came to the conclusio that
I'D a great deal more undetheil
z. they would ever get in their
He seldom made a morephilo-
Il remark. The object of school
not be to rush scholar thrgh as
-'anthes as possible in the lst pos
ACE e'f time, but to lay a fordation
oug>tful, studious life.
Zine since l got hold of ttload of
elnging to certain yolg lady,
5 attending a school tault by
a; supposed to be amonghe most
n his county. She ia quite
! i-one of whom the rblic will
nime, if the load of bo<s she is
ID carry does not breaher down
md physically. An ,alysis of
fe showed it to contai Wells
dCommon Things" a alther diff
Ii book, chiefly remarlble for it's
sangement, "CorneD Grammar
7graphy," Smith Srammar,"
S School Dictionary Brooks
Normal Arithmetic" "McGuf- |
lNer," "Quackenbos Lessons in
1n," "Ray's Elemntary Alge-
Cutters Anatom,' in each of
was expected to ave a lesson
'sxt day. I thougl it pity she
have had a cop.of "Butler's
Affords Greek estament," a
two of "Eange's ommentary,"
venient Watsos Institutes"
ne's Age of Rsasl" and "Don
,hen she might I've had some
restl-g to choos from. With
ibid have she semed to prefer
. any.
's~aA. esxaggerad case but it
"a too commonault. Half the
Slce, better usedwould have had
etter effect. ~riter in one of
'apers sometin ago criticised a I
n fault on thpart of teachers
1g books twcor three grades s
n are needed. Another equally ,
alt is giving ,holars too many |
sficult lessons once. Why any
ants to put moderately fair t
Fan, one whoan solve a simple s
Z interest-wo most likely can '
proportion pr solve it if stated s
.Ta is hopess mystery to me; S
iif he uses' Brooks Arithme- +
e fourtbf the questions are /
equations. Philosophy and An @
may verywell wait until the r
I. MS to rea and write at least A
/ well. Il is useless to try to +
thing in ;common school; they II
intendedfor any such purpose. 6
ry little Smpathy with the false
anism that is 80 fond of lament f
rible lergth of school sessions b
,readful effects of the studies. St
) that the average pupil is as A
9 injured by anything else as o
te reckless, hot house character o
fashionable life does far more to +,
the health of the young than O
conducted schools can do. 1t n
no harm to 60 to balls and ape "
es Of fashion at ten; It does no ii
George of his boyhood to make d
.ch of a man as his father at Ii
four hours Of school is terrible. i,
<, of Harvard, while arguing tt
ducation because, as he thinks, tt
al organization forbids girls to h
same course of study as boys, W
protest against the unnatural T
hat are Transforming our school q
ballroom bellies and which are W
ny of them prematurely old. If ia
1ely doubtful proposition, "that o.
men are becoming more debili- re
heir equally fashionable grand
,e true, the secret is to be found h
much study, but in the follies of a
life. The real trouble as most &C
We learned is to secure attention ol
ldies at all; but this inattention tv
of trying to enforce G;
tudies at once. Better send a til
0 the world a good reader and pr
an, a capable grammarian and el
idea of Geography, than to try si
IN Algebra, Philosophy, Book be
natomy, and may be Latin and NJ
I'd have him fail in all. The P
by of our common school schol- al
.pect to get any other education, bl
ne who has mastered the first NJ
, branches I have named, the ga
ury of knowledge is open, if he Sc
rec of character enough to use CO
las acquired. be
} few school houses that do not be
$500 to $4,000 of books idle. pc
:hools where the bump of de- 81,
S has received an unusual de- tn
his is true. This doesn't apply, II
to a certain Hartford school, at
/ l took charge of it had no 10
a basketful or two of leaves sh
a corner, through which the bo
lted for the especial leaf that b
e lesson. SO
,hers seem to have a strange
advancing their pupils. 1t bo
ice to report SO many in Alge- &c
ply, Latin, ETC.; yet take the in
the Cecil schools and two out So
d not solve one of Brooke's H.
r reviow if their eternal saliva ~,
pending on their doing SO. tb
the scholar in the Second p,
he can read it than to have so,
ng the Fourth Or Fifth; better bo
some idea of interest or that M
rule of all, addition, before III,
to scratching his head over 10,
unknown quantities; quadrat- A
hins. Algebra, however, is so on
practical life and addition so :,
nay be it is we'll to give it pre- %,