Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-11-19

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down at the young mans feet anu
picking one from the ground
Then the teacher should be in
formed upon the issue of the day.
pray do not say, ''Oh, / don't pretend
| to know anything about politics,
as though advertising a great virtue.
You ought to know something about
politics; and affecting a want OF
such knowledge is debasing to mind
and character. Every honest man
or woman has a religious creed; and
every patriot citizen, man or woman
has a political belief. Suppose your
scholar, who read the news papers at
home, ask you what capital means,
| in financial sense; or inquire as to
the political definition OF 'protec-
tion," or Stree trade" or central
ization," or "consequencial DANA
ges," or the Monroe doctrine" "
would you say" Oh, Il never read
politics?" BY this answer you
would forfeit the respect of the
scholar. And further, if you would
retain that respect, you mnst have
some knowledge OF the affairs with
which the scholar is convcrsant in
daily life. Ifyou are totally igno-
rant Of the way to harness horse,
and how to drive him when harness
ed; OF the number Of ears Of corn or
quarts Of oats commonly counted a
feed; Of the knowledge that a Berk
shire is black, and a Chester White
white hog, Of the fact that bur.
oak will split better and last longer
in posts than bass wood; and that
May is better time to ''break prair-
ie'' than October,-thc boy whom
you are endeavoring to inspire with
an enthusiasm for scholarship will
very naturally ask himself if his
coming to know as much about books
as the teacher, will make him as ig
norant of the ordinary affairs Of life.
A majority Of the youths in all coun-
tries look more upon an education
as desirable in ministering to ma
terial. than to an intellectual pur-
pose: the teacher must, therefore. to
win success, be a man or woman pos
sessed Of such genius for affairs as to
be able to show how the knowledge
acquired from books may be utilized
in a corntield. A teacher may have
all knowledge of textbooks. vet, if
entirely ignorant of the practical,
common affairs of life. and possessed
Of such limited discornment in
Indictment OF human nature as not
TO understand the motives which Or
dinarily inspire human action. his
or her success will be repetition of
the old story of the boy. who. though
supplied with a bamboo rod. and a
reel and a sill, line. and a fish hook,
failed 10 catch as many fish as the
boy with only a hazel stick. and a
niece of Irvine and n pin.booj, INIT
who notwithstanding the poverty OF
his outfit knew how to Dish.
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