Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-09-11

representative OF the Nrvs took . look
In on those In the Central buildings
yesterday afternoon. and found al de-
partmsnts doing we'll.
OF course. In 90 hurried . visit a. that
paid to the schools yesterday but little
in each room could be seen. but that lit
tie was favorable both a to the manage
ment Of Prof. Young. who IL principal
Of all our schools. and the care exercised
by the teachers. The methods OF in
struction adopted are also those most
generally approved by the best teachers
both on this coast and in Eastern cities.
In this respect the schools OF Gold Hill
are on q par with the very best In the
land. System, order and regularity pre-.
vail through them all. and the course OF
instruction 10 thorough and not wholly
confined 10 the books.
In this respect too much commenda-
ton cannot bs bestowed upon the Prin'
cipal and teachers. Il II time that the
rut in which many teachers have too
long run should be avoided. In all well.
managed schools the information gained
by the pupils outside Of the curriculum
OF study il OF at least equal importance
with the learning acquired from the text
books. True education 10 an embodiment
Of the mind from within. and q develop
ment OF its powers 90 that 10 can act in
dependently Of books. In its broadcast
sense IL IL learning to think; and the
educated person, 10 deprived OF books,
Ia capable OF making them.
As illustrative Of the foregoing. one
or two references to what was yesterday
noticed may not be amiss. A class OF
little folks were being initiated into the
mysteries Of geography. Instead Of
combining them to . text book OF dry q
embarrassing. because uncomprehsndsd.
statistics and definitions. the class was
instructed in homo geography. This
was q B primary class and Nevada the
lesson. The children, commencing with
their own town and county. were taught
the extent Of the Stnte, it, number Of
square miles and its population. Then
followed questions like the following:
Suriace-How many feet above sea
level? Intsrsscted by whatf To what
natural division Of the United States
does II belonsf Why IL Il called . great
basin2
Mountains = Humboldt. East Hum.
boldt. Toyabe. Sierra Nevada. shoshons.
Como.
Then followed the principal peaks.
the rivers, the lakes, the climate. the
soil, the extent Of mineral land. Of
grazing land. OF timber land. Of agri-
cultural land, etc. Next came produc.
tons. followed In turn by somsthing OF
the inhabitants.
The foregoing Il but . brief outline Of
what cannot fail to awaken an interest
in our own State. when Alled In BY q
painstakins and intelligent teacher.
The interest awakened - to our State 10
easily carried to other sections OF our
country and to other lands. Al the
children become older they will naturally
seek for deeper knowledge and physical
geography and the outlines OF geology
will follow In sufficient detail to implant
an interest in those branches which will
abide with the scholars and become
foundations for . superstructure OF re-
search and investigation In after and
ripper years.
: An unusual interest In being awakened
in the schools by . new system Of or.
biography. The spelling book 10 done
away with and the exercises In spelling
and defining are confined 70 the words
occurring in the reading and other les
sons and to q select few taken at ran.
dom. These words are given out and
are all written In books prepared for the
purpose. They are then followed BY
their definitions and the scholars = re-
quirsd to give sentences containing each
word in It's correct usage. These words,
definitions and sentences are kept In the
books and are made subjects OF review,
etc. Thus the exercise Ia n OF writing
a. we'll As In photography. and the chill.
dren learn TO write and use the words
correctly as well a. how to spell them.
IL would be interesting In this con-
nection to follow the foregoing with
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and teachers see that you are interested
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