Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-01-16
sky, And-zand=-the dickens knows what;

sky, and-7and=-the dickens knows what;
all In one short hour.
Heis now in that happy frame of mind
which only the truly good know, when
conscious of having done benev-
oient act. tits to be hoped that for the
welfare of the human race, he viii give
ten years. Of trouble to the glorious work,
or atileast; until every farmers son and
daughter shall be able to calculate the
area of fields by latitude and departure.
The Doctor says that. the teacher inti-
mated that if the Examiners had re-
quired 1t Of him, he would have qualified
himself, etc. Now, if the Doctor had
been as familiar with zoology as he is
with triangles and trapeziums, he would
have 9ortt that teacher down an ass, in
stead of doing as the watchman in the
play. The Doctor insists that every farm
er1s1sonT and daughter should be taught
to compute the area of their. fathers farm
by latitude aud departure, and says any
child, who has the ability to so through
the Third Part Arithmetic, can accom-
plish it. He further says, that large
majority of the children leave school be-
fore sixteen. Now if the Doctor will take
the trouble to count the boys and girls
who can master the arithmetic before they
are sixteen, in the country schools. or
town schools of this county, he will. find
thatlhe win have only small class to
learn latitude and departure. Arithmetic
is not .'ehiId's play. Now, since the
children. have to leave school at soearly
an age, would it not be better to first
teach them the things that are of the
most Importance? A column could be
filled with thelist of things more aneces-
sary in the devolopment Of the minds and
hearts Of the children than calculations
by latitude. and departure. e.
The Doctor does not seem to like graded
schools, and says, in them ''the smart
and energetic pupils are Systematically
curbed back and compelled to wait on the
-blockheadS, etc. If he means by using
the word systematically, that curbing back
smart pupils belongs to the system of
graded schools, his information is at fault
In well graded school, the smart pupil
gravitates to his proper place and the
blockhead gravitstes to his, The smart
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the graded schools that'he cannotpossibly
have In the ungraded school, and the
bTunderhead teacher win curb him back
in one place the same as=in another.
I7EsiA few words as to the duties of the Ex-
'aminerso and this communication must
! close. A man with less than the Doctors
abilities mig with less than ten years
of trouble, discover that the law pre-
scribes what they shall do, and expressly
prohibits them from acting as moral teach
Isers, for good reasons. Notwithstanding
this,-t Examiners of this county have,
for years, been doing all they dared to do
to extend the range of the teachers
studies, and elevate the standard of quail
| ifcations. It'll a very common occurrence
for the Examiners TO be severely taken
| to task for refusing certificates to persons
they deem incompetent, and they receiYe
any amount of abuse for examining in
branches which the. law does not pre-
scribe: Some persons. have doubted the
propriety of having a County Superin-
tendent, lest the teachers should find
themselves in the predicament of EsOp's
frogs, after they besought Jupiter for a
king; but the Doctors tastes and talents
SO eminentiy qualify him for the position
that any phflosophic mind must arrive at
the conclusion that County Superin-
tendent is a natural necessity; else why
should the Allwise take such pains to
raise him up z, Let us have the Doctor for
County superintendent, and give plenty
of latitude but no departure. 1t is a gross
viliflcation to say that the doctor is a mo-
nomaniac on the subject of land survey
ling, and he who -utters such slander
should be pointed at with the finger of
scorA till the vile calumniator sneaks hack
to the subterranean abode whence he
came. Yours respectfully,
/ ~ - -i---'i --i -. ALI-IN-FUN,