Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-06-18
The Public Schools.
PooLEsyItLE, June Is, 1875.

which to notice "Grumblers" letter IN your
last issue, and if you will oblige me this time,
promise not TO impose upon your patience
soon again
Grumbler complains that now the greater
part Of our teachers are young gentlemen and
young ladies. Well, Grumbler, please inform
us when this was not the case Certainly
NOT within the period embraced by my memo
ry, and ] am far from being Young,
But they do not continue TO teach any long
er than an opportunity offers for them to do
better. Oh, what selfish creatures.
Why does moi Grumbler propose TO increase
their pay to an amount sufficient TO make it
TO their interest to continue 10 teach? That
would obyiatc the difficulty, but then it would
also deprive him Of that excuse TO grumble.
Teachers, us well as grumbers, embrace every
opportunity to improve their condition, aud
the only way possible to convert this lever
changing, miscellaneous phalanx" into a
steady, serried rank and file, is by Offering
them sufficient pecuniary inducement to re-
main in rank and file. Does Grumbler wish
to crush out every aspiration OF Il young man
and confne him to perpetual drudgery in the
| schoOlroom at small wages because from ne
cessiy he is compelled to resort TO teaching
while prosecuting his studies and preparing
for more remuneraiiye field Of labor? So
narrow, hearless and tyrannical policy
would have bound for life to the teachers
tread-mll vocation such men as VIM Writ,
| S. S. Prentiss aud host Of others, who, be-
| ginning as teachers felt the high heaven born
| mpIlse within them to burst their letters and
rise to The lofty eminence to which they after
wards attained. Such an iron rule would to-
| day quench the fires of hope and energy
| that inspire hundreds of Young men TO over.
come the obstacles which obstFuct their way
! to high positions of honor and usefulness.
| CAV nll llnnpr fn The noble yDIlnU man
whose eyes are steadfastly fixed upon the
! prize. Go on in your career. Press forward
| with accelerating speed and ever increasing
energy and let no ''grumbler" divert your
aim or dampen your ardor. But Grumbler
says that the young ladies get married, aud
worst of all they take their OWa inoney, so
hardly earned in the sehooroom, 10 purchase
their wedding outfit. Is not that preferable
TO calling on Pa or Ma for the necessary sum,
which, perhaps, they cannot afford to spare
| for the interesting oceasion2 Or does Grum-
bier wish to confne the young ladies' not on
| ly to the business of teaching, MS N the case
of the yonhg men, but also to a life of per-
petual celbacy? ] can tell Grumbler that
such tops as he describes do not modest Young
ladies whose good sense and independence of
character urge them to gain an honorable
livelihood by their talent and industry. Pard-
sites of that genus are rather to he found
Eng !" t'ie > " '"C 'oi" ~ ii'ii-
seys' and other butterflies Questionable lite ;
they do not trouble sensible people. How
would Grumbler's boy look going to town
with load OF produce, saying, 'nomlnatlve
!, possessiye my or mine, objective me, to
his customers 7
Bat as Grambler is SO fond OF grammar
perhaps he would be greatly delighted to hear
him do not know. Grumblers boy his
dnliness may be inveterate, bul 1t he IS boy
OF even moderate parts, short attendance at
a primary school will enable him to compute
the price OF his potatoes for him. | do not
know that young ladies are much addicted to
quoting Shakespeare or Byron to Innocent
COWS; but believe they do sometimes quote
those and other authors TO some other ami
mails not so Innocent and far less useful.
Then, Too, the fancy schoolhouses are SO
close together. Does Grumbler wish to have
oldiiashoned log houses, but poorly lighted