The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1878-02-27
EDUCATION y L .
W. I. HAWKINS, EDITOR.

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an aliigaiors when about TO seize il,
prey?
Who was the founder OF Rome asked
The teacher Didn't know be was foun-
dered, sir, was the reply.
Skool teeching cheep hear, is over the
door OF a shaniy where the young idea
is taught to shoot through the brains Of
about twenty little wOolly heads.
Do you know the muttonpercussion
table, Caesar? Yes, an the dewisdom
table too.
When parents send their children to
school and paw their tnition fees thev are
often too apt 10 think they have done
their whole duty. This is a sad m ista zs.
Thev have done well but not enough.
Thev should at all times encourage their
children and feel and show a deep inter-
est in their progress; they should teach
them to honor the teacher; they should
visit the school and cheer the teacher BY
words Of encoufa cement and deeds Of po-
likeness and Kindness.
Casks if it is better TO govern chit
dren by a system of rewards or OF pun
isbments. | am afraid F. wants 10 draw
me into a debate on ''the hope afterwards
or she fear of punishment" used,
when young, to debate that question, but
have forgotten on which side. If can
find NV notes, 6, will come ont strong
Is there a boy OF girl in the whole
country W 20 has not one hour a dav to
himself? Look at it, One hour a day
is three hundred and sixiy-five hours in
a year Suppose that in this hour each
day one good lesson is memorised, and
'horght OF during me busy hours. Do
you see 1t, young man? How much bet
to spend shat hOuf in this way than in
iounging it awav where you have no bus
mess Try it for one year.
BOYS, tell your mother, at right, ali
you have seen or done through the day.
aud You will fad yourselves insensibIy
failing INFO the habit of doing only what
you think or know 10 be right
How are We to rid us of the dema-
gogue who would ride into Office upon
the tidal wave ,bat would wash away
the last ves,a-e Of popular freedom
We must CGrcaie the masses. To this
the local parers, ejucai ional jOurnals,
lecturers ali lead their aid Jh proper
ZION as the masses are educated, we miss
The faces and saddle bags OF the eandi-
dates to whose election bottles OF whisky
are necessary.
Too much cannot be said in regard to
the kind OF reading allowed Jhe yOIng.
] would as soon see a boy OF mine with
a glass OF whisky in his hand as Jack
Shepa d" and similar books. The miod
may as surely be poisoned, diseased, de-
s,royed by improper indIlgencs ia reau-
ing as the boly of indulgence in drink.
Washington. Feb. THE committee
OF education and labor have agreed on
bill 10 divide the proceeds Of the sales OF
the public lands among the States for ed
ucalional purposes. There were only
two negative votes in the committee =
Courier-Journal.
The greatest source Of the grumbling
and dissatisfaction at the school system
is cheap teachers aud short terms.
Do your work we'll and you benefit
your pupils and have the proud conscious
ness of having done your duty whether
you gain the approval of your patrons or
not
don't know but that I fully agree
with Superintendent. Henderson, sug-
;estiOh Of State help only to such dis
ricrs a. first provide comfortable school
houses. The idea is a good one. Chill
l-en cannot study while freezing or near
" so; AMI don't believe there is a
neigh boz hooi in Kentucky so poor that
ihev cannot build a comfortable sehoo-
house.
| think that if the magistrates Of the |
State had power to send parents to the
school houses us they have to send eul
prits to the comfy Jail, we would soon
have good school houses. | am conf
lent | can find school houses in this
county 10 which twenty-foar hours con-
Iinement would be worse than forty-eight
hours in the county Jail and don't
think this county worse than others.
Ignorance 1oes hand in, hand with
vice. Now which is better TO paw TO
Educate or to capture, prosecute and pun
lsh for crime-One tax or the other the
people mus: pay. Which will they
choose?
Personal preferences and eonveniences
must give way for the good OF the com
muuity. | came nearer using latin
phrase, pro something but concluded to
save it till l give lecture on education
Locke spoke truihfully when he said
"long disconrses AMI philosophical res-
sonings, at best, but do not instruct chill
dren."
Example does more 10 the manage
ment OF schools than all the rules that
can be invented.
The boy who didn't go to school be-
cause he OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES offered
for the legislature, when he became
man, but his later crop came out againl
Father" said rrecocious boy, 81
don't believe Soloman WAS "a rich as the
Bible SAYS" Why, my son Because
it says he slept with his fathers. and ev,
erybody knows that if he had been so
ricn he would have had a bed To himself