The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-22

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REQUIRES to be used in our schools, and Q
which we are required to purchase for our a
children whenever the professor and au- c
thor of the same directs. If we fail in this, s
our children are marked down" or ex- Ii
PEELED. Our children must draw-they c
can't be excused from it. Two of my child |
rem have applied to be excused but, no,
they must draw and thereby make market
for the professors drawing books The
professor of drawing won't consent The
superintendent won't consent. The board
of education won't consent. Now my
children don't want to draw. don't want
them 10 draw they cannot make artists,
and yet much of their valuable time and a II
good deal Of my money is squandered on
This useless and nonsensical accomplish
ment." Next we have a professor OF
singing" very accomplished musician,
who has taught singing school for the
past forty years. He teaches scientific |
music-the most elevated kind. My little |
girl is now most ready to be q prIBsG |
donna. She has learned to sing that cele- |
brated passage from 'Trovatore, taught by
our professor * ET1clrIA III
"oh, we can play the big bass drum,
And thisi the music to II;
Rig Jig boong is the big bass drum,
And this Is the way we doit s- -a 90 -
Motions thrown in ab i6it,ms t,g
Some Of our tax payers object to see so
high an order of music, but alas for them
when they attended school they had not
the benefit of the modern improvements"
gas AID water. think our professor OF
singing does not furnish the books, be-
cause he does not know enough to get
them up. But our children must sing
they can't be excused-it is necessary they
should sing in order TO prepare them tor
the stern realities of life. How can they
drive away dull care without singing!
Just think what man Judge Beckwith
would be if he could only sing: The"mod-
ern improvements" consist in spreading
on the accom- plishments. The lasts of the
parents must not be consulted however.
1.-THE darkey dance, "a
The darkey do most every thing
The private citizens here got the start o!
the board of education last fall and made
their own arrangements with Prot. Mart
inc, so that the general public are moi
taxed for dancing but Prot. MARITIME must
look out, or the first itinerant double shut
fer and glide-waltzer that has professec
dancing forty years in New England,
and who has patent shoes in our schools
will beat him out of his job, and then w
shall add another professor to our faculty
Dancing, singing, drawing the grace
three The proposition is now being moot
ed in educational circles to establish ton
serial professorship. To dress hair is a
accomplishment. The old wooden comb
that shut together when we were boys ar
played out Our daughters, who are all I
be primG donnos at the public expense, wi
be more magnificent when they dance o
to the stage singing Rig jig hoong,"
their hair is artistically dressed; and
this end they must be instructed in th
accomplishment. Drawing, singing, dan,
ing, hair-dressing!
Prot Tony Denght is ahead Of all otht
competitors. He will require his SPANS
lustral to be used in the schools.
Some of our heaviest taxpayers, WI
have no children, are 10 favor of increasir
the number of our professors. The mo,
ern system" results in turning out vel
Indifferent scholars So much of the tin
is occupied with nonsense that very little
left for the practical.
Public schools are not places to teat
accomplishments. They should be kickt
out at once The taste of the people d
fers in regard to them. The capacity
children differs. Some people can new
sing-have absolutely no idea of harmon
why take up their time in attempting
accomplish an lmpossibilitY Must som
bodys music books be sold? When ii
door is once opened there will be no er
to the mischief that will creep in. For
whang- doodle performance, ON examin
tion-day, the teachers can get up a bett,
show with the singing and drawing an
the rig jig boong' performances. 1t
more important that boy should kno
how to- shade than to calculate the lengt
of rafter, or figure the interest on a not
Such education makes people superfcia
and prepares them to whiffle around fro
enc calling to another all through life.
The mode Of teaching is enc of the hur
bugs of modern times A boy is load,
down with questions, analyses" al
Conclusions Half of his time is occ
pied in learning the whang- doodle of Il
lesson. he following is taken from o.
ofthe modern" improved arithmetics
QUESTION.
John has 20 apples and gives five to
brother jamestown many has no left ?
40 ANALYSIS.
Since John has 90 apples and gives Fl
to his brother James, he would have Il
the difference between 20 apples and q
pies, which are Is apples.
ANSWER.
Therefore, if John has 20 apples a
gives to james, he would have is app
left.
This must all be repeated by the puE
and failure in the least particular maj
him down. This is all necessary, howev
for the new book, which mast be sold, &C
tains it. 1t is the fashion of book publis
ers to hire men to write school books.
Agents introduce them, and every time
change is made there is lob" I pl
chased for my oldest boy sac different ge'
raphies. He went through all of them
have two younger boys in geography,
neither OF them have ever used any of I
six. This is specimen of modern tea,
ing. To bring about such stupid resu
we appropriate thousands of dollars ami
ally to support normal schools. These D
NAL schools are the objective points
school book publishers
An enterprisipg blank publisher in
diana used to engineer through the legil
ture bill now and then changing the +
enue law thu, INVOLVING new set of blan
His blanks were printed before the gov
nor signed the bill Of a similar charao
is the manner in which the school b
business is done, The normal school