The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-04-29

dartin county-Jno. w. Tanner, Go.
,upt. reports:
..of the IS districts in this county, 4s have s
lad school within the year. Many
districts are yet without . suitable echooi 8
building" IL
Benton county,. Rev. Sherman Hall, I
County Superintendent, reports: #
.sSome of the districts have yet no school
houses are very unsuitable for that purpose =
rough log structures. dark, gloomy and cold.
Mile Laos county, A. P. Baker, Super
reports:
"The people desire to see the schools -four
ish and to have their children well educated,
bnt their interest is not sufficiently active to
overcome their unwilllngneas, especially in the
less populated districts, to tax themselvrs for
the necessary support OF such schools"
Mower county, E. F. Morgan. Superin-
tendent. reports:
tsSn,all districts, often spaJsely settled, can
maintain schools but few months in the year,
in houses that afford but very little shelter
The teacher Of such school must necessarily
be cheap one"
Swift county, A. NJ. Utter, Superinten-
dent, reports: /
ssFour hundred AMI thirty-six persons Of
school age have not been enrolled in any |
school large portion Of this number would
have attended school, but they are living in
sparse settlements, remote from school, many |
Of them from five to seven miles distant"
Wright county, Josiah F. Lewis, SUI
perintendent, reports:
SIN few localities our school houses are OF
the poorest class, rude log huts: the course OF
stndies yerv limited and the teachers most
sought for are those who will teach for the
lowest wages, will, least regard to qualifica-
TONS"
Would it not have been better and
wiser to have spent that $40, 900 in aid
ing add sustaining public schools and in
building school houses, than in erecting
and maintaining three local colleges IN
three cities of the State!
Hear Prof. Phelps in his report for
1872:
tour common schools have heretofore been
and stu are, in weak asd inefficient state.
The quality Of the work done in them is ueTy
NOR In TACT there IS SO
much vague and inaccurate teaching done in
our elementary schools that at least niHeteen-
tpe.tieths Qf those s0ho enter the Normal
Schools must 10 back to first Principles =
they are ignorant Of the very oeesnas"Ss ~ 1"e
common school studies"
That is to say, the Normal Schools are
not institutions to instruct those already
educated in the art of conveying that
learning to others, but they are schools
of primary education.
Wh, then should the people Of Dakota
county be taxed annually to maintain a
school in Winona county, where nineteen
twentieths of the scholars are being
taught s'the very beginnings Of "a common
school education Why should Kinona
d county not support her own primary
schools!
But this is not all. The people Of Da'
kota county are taxed not only to give
the pupils in the Ninona Normal School
, primary instruction, but to fit them out
With an academic education. Look at
, their list of studies: didactics, meta
} physics. geography. history, physics
chemistry, physiology, elocut'on' theo
retical and applied mathematics, Penman
| ship, drawing, the art Of design. vocal ma
/ sic and the sstire test And all Thu
/ while 81 ,202 children are without educa
ton. and many Of them without schools
RI Bat it may be said, the children Of Da
kota county are at liberty to attend thu
+ Winona school. True; but how man,
, poor men can afford to pay for the boare
Q and clothing Of son or daughter for two
!. three or four years 1t Winona! Ant
6 those who are able to do so can they no
send them to the State University, ant
. receive eratuitous education there:
i And while more than one-third Of tn
J, children Of the State are without educa
: ton, and others are receivin'
p . rudimentary training in dirty an.
foul Lighthouses, through which
!? the winds Of winter whistle, read wit
i what . lordly generosity the Norma
!. School atW mona WAS dispensing the take
i collected even from these poor, oppresse
d people. -,
Prof. Phelps, in his report for 1S7;
y says:
!. ssThat our schools should do more to refs
;. aal eAasees Ia iss9iaatios sid 10 elevate q
4 taste Is proposition too evident to requl
: argument. To this end provision d.
e been made for the study Of high standards
ri. Two apartments, especially adapted
i ne exhibition Of mOdels in architecture, scnlI
y tnre, painting and sketching. occupy Il
| fonrth aforv of the Weat wing. som
thine hrs been done towards furnishing the
NTH such works q shall be worthy Of stnd
= and tend to establish that high Standard
" progress in the discipline Of the imagination
" md in fostering love Of the Beautiful q
" True!" with capital letters)
J. This is all very pretty, but is It not
more importance that the 81, 292 chiidr'
. should Be taught to read and write tn
~ ~ that dozen Or two normal gradual
- should have their ssimaginations chaste
% ed and refined and their taste elevated
50 by s.the Beautiful and the True Is \.
@ the cupola Of our house bigger than q
" house Are We not like that Sandw''
= Islander who put his entire fortune m
the purchase Of hat and fsather,and p
50 mitted the breezes Of heaven 70 play
- lrevsreatly with the remainder Of his p
sons
- What Is the theory ofNormal trasnln
Z We Will sappoee A. B. G. and D. - ha
t. the same smount Of education and 81
cient Tor the ordinary purposes q tsac
1t ine. But A has more facility for lmpa
nc inE what be knows than B; and = M
,nA than n whilN u has none VhAtev