Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-05-16

who knows ANYTHING accurately
and thoroughly-knows all about
it's sure that he knows it and
can convince others that he knows
it,.-can rarely fail of an opportunity
TO employ that knowledge, and to
obtain for it the steady rcmmer-
ton which honest industry deserves.
In thus becoming familiar with
and master ofsomo limited province
of knowledge, There is however u
tendency to be zcalously guarded
against the tendency to become
mere specialist that often mastering
y given subject, the subject turns
around and masters the man. ID
Is common to call such u person
hohhy-ridcr, ltwould bo more cor.
rect TO say such u man was hobby
ridden, ms clearly that is the opera.
ton which takes place, The sub
leet mounts into the saddle and
hcncctorth the man il beast of
burden. A MERE anything is not
what n man should he. 1t is n
worthy ambition to bc a teacher,
doctor or Il lawyer, but not mere
teacher, mere doctor, or mere
lawyer; there should be the man
above them all
In the minutcnoss growing out of
the division of laborand the growing
magnitude ofsocioty, the individual
is dwartcd in his development and
limited in his action. TO certain
extent this must always be truc.
Every man will find himself be-
Titled by the enormous extension
of the system in which he il com-
priscd, But the teacher has not
only yielded to this tendency of
great systoms, he has added to its
force and extent by dcvoting him
self exclusively to the tuition of
children; by circumscribing tho
field of his labor by the four walls
of the school-room and limiting the
bill of fare TO the often stale pabu-
lum OF prilaary tsSt.l2oks. 1870
the chaotic conditi5o OF public
opinion IN regard 10 tho social, eSO-
nomical, and political questions of
the day is potent to MI, and tho
necessity Of cnlightmont and in
struction il evident to all observing
persons, and there is no valid rca-
son why teachers from their van
tage ground of better knowledge
for better knowledge they certainly
OUGHT Ia have should not aid a
SADLY muddlcd community to
come to some lucid conclusions up
on the questions presented for con-
sidrration. We do not desire To see
teachers meddling in Office, seeking
politics, but teachers are citizons,
and as such should be interested,
not only in the Treasurer of Il school
board, but IN the conduct Of the af-
fair of the town, county, State and
Nation to which he belongs
II would add dignity and innu-
cnce to our profession, il, instead Of
merely instructing the next gener-
ation, we should consider TINT we
also belong to the present, and have
duties to discharge toward it.
It is this broad cosmopolitan in
terest and spirit which should bind
all professions and orders together
into one compact organism, that are
wanting in our profession wanting
TO make IL fruitful of greater bene-
fit 70 the world--and 10 tho the
higher individual developments Of
It's members wanting TO convert
and transform the formal pcda-
gogue into m interesting citizen Of
the world-that il may be said of
him MS il was said Of Brutus-"The
elements so mixed IN him that
nature might stand up and say to
all the world, "This was n MAN"
Governor Smith has granted u
pardon 70 Erastus Beaucamp, boy
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