The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-03-26
EDUCATION.

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myself understood | shall be satisfied !
Could the youth of this day and age look |
back to the days when 1 was trying to
get an education, and see the little old
log house and slab benches Of my boyish !
days, they certainly would feel as though
their lot had fallen IN happy Times.
And again, could they examine the
teachers We had they would not sir mp a
revolution every time teacher happen
ed to mako "a mistake
We'll, was an apt scholar and scan
came Ia the end Of our teachers learning
and all ! could do. | could nor get him
any farther than fractions, in tile ariih-
metic, and as for grammar. we had none,
and the nearest We came to algebra we
had a picture of q zebra in our spelling
books think that parents in these
days crowd brain or book
education as much too tar as
we in those days came short of it. Par
ents are apt TO forget that their children
have physical bo,sy 10 care for and edu-
ucate as well as an intellectual one and ad-
vocate nine or even twelve months school
in order, they say, to keep their children
out ofmischief. Parents, do you know that
you are running your children, physical
ly as well as morally when yoa neglect
To give them some kind of trade to
build up good healthy bodies and to resi-
their over taxed minds? We shall all
find out some day hat human being
cannot be truly educated through the
brain alone, nor by books alone. Sue
cessful men learn To do and endure and
thus they learn patience and dcXieriiy."
! Give your children some trade or the
state may have to do ii for them. Is 1t
any wonder that boys hate anything that
/ is like labor, when they are born tired
Quzy) or worse-fit subjects for our iails
and pcnitentiaries. Our state has struck
out in the right direction at Manhattan,
but why send our children off there
away from our control when we might
have little Manhattan at every village
or city or even in every school district ?
At every village or city we could have a
shop for the different kinds oftradcs and
IA plat of ground where our children
could, say once a week, taze lesson OF
manual labor in some trade or the pur
suit of agriculture, horticulture or hori-
culture, and in the country we could let
our children have piece of ground all
for their own use and give them all the
proceeds Of it. Once 4 week all through
the spring and summer, whether school
kept or not, our children could meet,
compare crops and the cultivation OF
them, have a good time, learn to like
the business, grow up useful, healthy,
and happy as men and women should be
"a blcssingtO their parents and the Com
munity. My grandpa used to tell us
boys when we were out of work, to &C
and hoe, and dig, and chop that we
might not enter into the vices -of idle
boys, and by the little pocket money We
got that we could call all our own, we
learned To like it, and il becuine KIND
of second nature, and as Old as | am,
still like to pillow, reap and NOV. go
trade that I value more than boob
, learning; yet would like to have a lit
tic more of the latter, so chat l coult
mere fully express myself,
had the extreme pleasure Il few day!
since, to listen to Mr. Culver, lately from
Pennsylvania, and hope that ever!
; neighborhood, viii at the first oppor
tunity secure his services To- tell you nj
5 about combining agriculture and hOrti
culture, and the raising of boys anC
: girls. l would be pleased to hear hin
g again at Americas. He advanced ont
!. idea that was new TO most of us. III
SAID our land needed ditching so as Il
> take in the moisture. About the tim
e our good friend lives here long enough
a TO see our climate so hot and dry that tn
ground cracks, so that pigs, chicken
= and our wagon wheels begin to tumbl
p. in. he will believe with me, that we vii
need some other kind of ditching. 4
least | hope no one win mortgage hi
team or farm to procure a drain tile, bu
get good pillow and 'plow deep Will
n sluggards Sleep" and the longe
- have corn to sell and to keep" Con
, mencc early, so that you can get throug
blowing, so that you can have your tear
fresh TO tend your crop. And nj all time
} work enough to know when vituals tasi
e good, ana you will not grumble so niue
at the cook.
l. / sometimes hear strangers make I'll
3 expression that they cannot undersian,
or get acquainted with our climate an
D. soil Our good friend, Mr., Culver, sal
a. he knew but little about Kansas, excel
Of TO dig a cellar in our gumbo, and lear
ed that by hard experience. l hope l
ID will stay with us until he learns MUG
to more, and that the greatest curse 10 Ka
ot sas is the debts, notes and mortgag
that covers SO many Of our friends.
l once heard man say that &c
II made the world,'' and having a little m
=, tcrial left he threw it together withol
any regard to soil, climate or wcathe
, and called it Kansas; and then settled
- with all kinds ofpeople from every poi
= of the world At all events, find Ka
~ sas little different from any country
;, was ever in, for we have to contend wi
the climate of many points surroundir
US. IF we win make the best of it al
H. pillow deep, manure well and plant plen
- of all kinds of trees, and get the peopl
nc climate and weather regulated littl
'i Kansas will be a pretty good kind
Il place. o. LAMBERT.