The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-02-27

An education could not be gained without
hrid, unrelentipg stndy. study mcnns
lard isork, earnest, determined, nncenslng
tcorS. If q man wished 10 lift n specified
weight, he would continue lifting more
snd more at each trial. until he had so de-
veloped the power in hi, arm as to enablo
him to lift tho desired weight So, If a
man wishes a certain point IN mcata! great
rcss he must begin where he il and keep
steadily but surely upward, mastering all
difficulties ultil the desired roiat is reach
cd Teaches needed u be energetic, wide
awake, thorough. TIL teacher who
thought he Was helping the scholar by
mastering his hard problems fo- him, was,
o2 the contrary, doing mir: IN Injury. 1t
Wis Ike n mother eating a cbild's food for
L, and expecting the child to he ncrir!shed
thereby!
What would Ho Jsir. % the man who,
wanting 20 sharpen his axe, purchased a
cheese, and setting il up As q grind.tone. at
tempted TO sharpen the axe upon til The
Gxc, instead of berg made better, would
partake os the cheese, be gunmed up and
made worse than before. What was needed
to sharpen the axe was n grirhstons that
hail Sonic grit in itI Nov, Irany schools
were like this. A good school WAS like a
good grin,ls.One, and n good teacher was one
WHO had some grt In him, and who would
t4l.o u pnr.l by the hgnd and hold him TO
the grinds:onc till he made him better. IL
you CInl=d a boy on cheese, he would DC
cksst. but if you ground him on n grind
.tuie, ~ would partake somewhat OF the ma
turc Of ;ns stone and have some grit in him 7!
The l~ectaIer WA right. Too many OF our
schools AYE little different from cheese fac
t0rtes. Gni are poor ones at that
An r.!tcntion was something worth hay
lug; worth the hardest work, if necessary,
70 gain il. lie taught nine winters to earn
the money to pay his wa through college.
lie gave an account of some of his trials
during that time. The first time he taught
hn Ind ;iino dollars u month-twenty-siN
iays bring 80 called-boarded around, had
% bu!ti his own fires, sweep his own school
house. Yneeived his pay in spruce shingles,
and then. something that he did not often
tell. he was turned out at that! Next
tune be lid better.
Speaking of the great abundance in the
quantity and quality of the literature of
o.day, compared to thnt of his youth, he
said It amazed him to see how, with -
many hyperion advantages, the youth of
our country c0yh he 50 utterly indifferent
end bin Then tho abuse which books re-
ceiycd at their hands, amazed and panied
him. Whca quite q youth, he desired, at one
time, several books. u slate, some paper, etc.
and carried the list TO his father, who did
not sns how he Goull afford to buy them.
Their he Aont to the bookseller and asked
him II he would take butternuts for books Z
lie said he would, and the boy picked the
butternuts, two bushels of them, drew them
through tho snow across the fields two or
;hree miles to tho store, and obtained his
books. Tho fragrance of flowers to the
most refund taste is not sweeter than the
fragrance of those new books was to him.
Books are rot priced by the youth now as
then.
Thou. in speaking of the work of the
teacher, lie said the teacher is treading q
solitary path. How very few Of the pa
rcuts of he children whom he instructs even
tale him by the hand and thank him fol-
his devotion To the interests of their chill
drcn How very few of the teachers have
the sympathy and co cooperation of the pa
rents Our teachers need our sympathy
and fellowship to make their work u sure
success We should give il to them.
The lecturer was entertaining and in
structivc, aud was listened to with atten-
lion. And now let mc say that, though one
man has no greater number of talents OF
faculties than another, still some one OF
more of these are naturally greater, and
others smaller and no matter how
thorough and everlasting thewnrk of drdtc
ing "ut may be, some will still remair
small, while others will continually grow
larger.
Grotch will not apply TO all the faculties
in the same mind. Here is n boy with great
natural mechanical ability, and we will say,
with no taste whatever for music. Now
his education should be such ns will most
fully develop and strengthen his mechanical.
ability. You cannot make n musician of
him. He has the musical tacuny, but not
the musical dbfftH. He may be so instruct
ed az to execute the most difficult pieces of
composition with ease this is owing to his
mechanical ability. But something is lack.
ing which cannot be drdicR ont, because ii
is not there. There is no soul in his music,
because he has no musical dGiity. Then il
is a t~hOughtless statement to make that n
man may educate any faculty and make his
work n success. Where n mans tastes and
desires lead him, he should go.
II n boy gives evidences of ability AZ 4
mechanic, n musician, n lawyer, n public
speaker, II farmer, u minister, or Il doctor
let him have the advantages to make ont
of the best in his God.given work. You
cannot make one thing out OF T. boy if he il,
another, any more than you can make or.
kind of n tree out of another kind. Y,
may cut ami graft, ana still the nature
the tree remains the s~amc--th. same :
runs in its veins and always will.
Certainly, where one maj, gains one hi
drcd degrees Of knowledge, another may
gain less than ten. simply because he has
the "bAty which this knowledge feeds, and
the other has not. The fitness of u mnn's
work will show all around him. If the
work is suited to tho man Il the man t.
the work, the S1mt of it will be manifest in
his every action, When n man is duh and
~listlcss and uuintcrosted in what he is do
ing, is it not evident that he is no: fitted
for it. Why attempt to make squire men
fit rohDId A'dG', or picG rC3Nd, If u man is
square he will BE- so, and you can't cut the
corners off from him without spelling the
man! If he is round, You can't put cor
ncrs on him without making n patched up
job of it.
FacuifS and a6iify are two widely differ.
cnt things. Education never gave Il man
d5jitg hny more than it gave him soul! II
u man has no ability to be an artist, nc
earthly power can lind it TO draw it out.
Do We expect - to gather figs of ,histles :"
Let US not condemn n man because he is not
rs gifted in some one direction as nuothe
man. God Knew what he was doing wheI
he made him. and il il WAS not q part OF
the divine plan, it would rot be SO.