The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-27
EuUcATIoNAL COLUMN.
At What Age Should a Child be
Started to school!

Ihaye read two articles on this subject; and
shall endeavOr to subjOin few thoughs. Inc
first of these, with the exception OF the second
verse. cheerfully endorse. The writer evident
" addressed those few thoughts at random TO
induce teachers to express their opinion; that
good might result from such interchange OF
thought. If 1 rightly divine the spirit OF the
first article, it 10 as follows:
lat. That some parents send their children TO
school to put them out Of the way Of trouble at
home. and that an older brother or sister can
take charge of them at school.
I'd. That these under graduates are not sent to
receive lessons but to be nursed at school.
Sd. That children should at least be Of lawful
age, old enough to have received some training
at home before they enter school to be subject
to its discipline.
4th That the time Of the teacher ought to be
given to the instruction of lawfully qualified pu-
pills.
5th. That good government is indispensable to
the school room and that this class is not legally
| under the teachers control and hence sometimes
becomes q nuisance.
rs the second article or reply most seriously
object. The quotation Of eighteen lines, from
some ssnoted educators" is BosH from begin
ming to end
| We are told "tO continue the method Of edu-
cation which has been pursued by nature" and
Ito examine natures pupil at the age Of three
and we will find Physics developed, and the
Flora of Kansas evenly distributed and that
Agassiz has discovered some new phenomena in
nature; that Webster has been mastered by in
tuition; that the mechanic arts are too common
for the contemplation of such giant minds, and
that with two years additional application the
wonder will be how their precccious heads will
contain 1t all.
The twin boys are SIX years old and hence not
applicable to this case.
! We say nothing against the slur on Zero, be
cause when one digit is placed to the left Of it
it counts ten. Wenever taught primary depart
ment Of graded school, but think it is joke OIL
Ohio if at five years of age the children dom
know their letters.
4 HolbruOk must be n;ore consistent for ina
ture'' finds them mastering Webster 8: thre
and he desires a retrograde to nothing q
five.
i forgot to notice the picture of the write
J smiling in wrath upon the innocerts.
have thought, however, that if some one O
the revolutionary heroes would rise from thei
graves anu listen 10 tne feneafsal OF tnelr iOfine
productions they would wish they had neve
| been born. I join issue with those teachers VIII
discard the assistance Of the parents in prepar
ing the lessons for recitation. The more intelli
gent the parent, and the more attention given a
home, the greater will be the advancement i
study The best way for the parent to kno,
whether the teacher IL doing the work that ough
to be done is ~ assist the child IN its tasks
Take the child that has no one 10 render assist
ance out Of school aud the one with intelliger
parents, who examines them and assists them &
home, and you will find marked difference
favor of the latter. If the child is taught In
manner that the parent cannot assist by on
teacher and another way by another teache
there will be failure.
When talk Of common school education "
r must meet the question according to the crcun
e stances that exist. II certain teacher was
: teach certain school for period Of ten veal
e any good method could be adopted with safet!
but so long as changes occur every year we mu
8 teach in harmony. would just as soon comm
: my child into the hands Of another to rear
other things as to commit into the hands
e teachers to do as they please. DICTATE.