The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-03-28
CUR SCHOOLS At PARIS.
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for The French.
Photographs of School Buildings
and Rooms TO Accompany the
Showing.

which the Leavenworthian prides himself,i
is the public schools to which he sends hi
children to be educated, and IL ever the spiri
of mortal had a right to be proud, without
coming in collision with the Bible doctrine
which bids us beware Of
1 THAT MOST DANGEROUS OF SENTIMENTS,
or whatever il may be called, the inhabltan'
of the metropolis should be guaranteed and
conceded that right. He is perfectly jusii-
fed in feeling as he does, for the Leaven.
worth public SCI ools of to-day are a marvel
in themselves, the legitimate result OF hard
labor and lavish expenditure Of money. Nc
city in the West has
! Such FINE BUILDINGS,
as neat rooms, or more competent teachers
where the health and cleanliness of the pu-
pills is so well cared for; where such care is
taken in the selection of efficient
instructors. or where everything connected
with the schools is so jealousy guarded by
the people generally. 1t has taken years 10
bring the schools to
THEIR PRESENT STANDARD OF PERFECTION,
but the end sought is at hand; the expendi-
ture Of money is not regretted, since IL has
accomplished the work for which 1t was ex-
pended the time spent has not been thrown
away. and the result Is a victory OF viii We
feel justly proud.
OUR SCHOOLS AT PARIS.
Some three weeks ago Prof. A. L. Lemon,
Superintendent ofPub bile instruction for the
State, addressed a communication to our
Board of Education, requesting the Board to
send him, for exhibition at the coming
French Exposition which opens at Paris, IN
May an exhibit of the progress and stand
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photographs of such of the buildings as the
Board might see proper. The idea was at
once seized upon and Professor Wherrell
Immediately set to work to carry 1t out, in
which good work he was most
ABLY AND zEALoUsLY ASSISTED
by the teachers. The pupils, too, who were
not a minor consideration in the matter by
any means, were enthusiastic, and evidenced
their enthusiasm by getting out examination
papers which would do credit to any school
in this country. The penmanship, in many
instances, is like copperplate, and
RESEMBLES THE TEXTS
in the copy books, while the little tads in
the seventh, eighth, ninth and {, n tn grades,
furnish specimens of writing which their
elders in few cases can equal. The system
adopted in the schools at the present time is
almost complete and perfect and day by day
a., ,,onis,.ness and im,srfectiops exist.
ing are being remedied. This is due, in a
great measure, to the unremitting efforts of
PROF. JOHN wHERRELL,
who has devoted his time and attention ex-
clusiyeIy TO the attainment Of this one OBJ
iect He has reduced the management of the
schools down to a mathematical science, and
everything runs as smooth as cIockwork.
His great idea has been to not render the
pupils mere machines, TO act merely as an
automaton would at the touch of the spring
controlling il, but to teach them to think
and act for themselves This does not imply
at all that the discipline of the schools is lax
by any means. 1t is simply, the
pupil is human being, and
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