New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-23

RETURNING no SCHOOL.

| 1t is yet too early to felicitate ourselves that
the year has swept us quite beyond the range
OF possible torrid waves, but the days are
growing shorter and the chill of approaching
autumn is already in the evening air. Before
it has fairly begun, the vacation for active toers
is almost at an end. Within fortnight the
great army of lawyers, clergymen and mer-
chants will have picked up the loose ends of
their business and settled down to work. let us
hope, with brains and bodies rested and refreshed
Vacation ends, too, for all the light hearted
boys and girls, although "they toll not, neither
Go they SPIN; Tor the schools open as well us the
courts and churches and the fall trade. For
tuhate would 1t be If none but good schools
| opened for mseducaton can be worse than
| no education. During the school year soon to
open how great an influence the teachers of
the country will WELD in moulding the plastic
minds OF the taught can hardly be appreciated,
but we can rest assured that if the formers
were all they should be there would be q di-
minished demand for formers.
Where to send all these frank, frisxv. in
qulsitive, adventurous, irreverent boys, and all
the girls, too, whose tantalizing graces no
| adJectives can define is an ever-recurring and
| perpleXlng problem. But this is the only
| material at hand to make men and women of,
| ana IL demands most tender and intelligent
| treatment. Certainly these trustful and pliable
young natures should not be handed over TO
the care of some educational martinez. who
VIII coniound all their perceptions of right
and wrong, not by any failure to
| irown upon and correct a positive immoraIitv
but by treating it with no more or less stern
ness than is visited upon some infringement
of an artificial school discipline, so that no
| distinction is made between a fault and n
crime, and profanity or untruthfulness comes
to be considered as lapse from propriety no
more serious than an improper attitude on
dress parade. These curious young ex-
| porers should not be sent where the
only mental exercise encouraged or in
sisted on is memorizng from a textbook
and one faculty is developed ut the expense
and to the stupefacton of all the rest until
| the eyes are trained to see nothing, and the
spirit of inquiry, investigation and invention
is stltied. These growing bodies should not
be left where there is not wholesome food in
| abundance for their nOurishment, and fresh air
| ana hight, cleanly apartments. A child should
| never be banished from home unless it is to
| some spot pervaded by home atmos-
! phere and by the warmth of something
! like home tenderness. He should be sent to
no school where the teacher, in addition to
critical knowledge and aptncss to teach and
professional enthusiasm and a muickened intel
lect which illumines every subject and lifts it
above any possible dulness or dryness does
not possess high moral qualities, a sympathy
which attracts and stimulates, and n personal
purity which irradates his whole daily walk
and conversation.
| Fortunately, there is no lack of schools
which approach the highest standard of ex-
ccllcncc, presided over by teachers who have
kept their hearts youngn after years of ex-
perence. And there is no better place to
search for them than in the advertising
columns Of The TRIBUNE. The progressive
teachers of the country have learned that an
advertisement in THE TRIBUNE reaches the
aud demand superior professional ability
1t has become the established medium of com
mnnicatiOn between the best teachers and their
est patrons. In every issue we are printing
advertisements for some 300 educational in
stitutions, and in this way invaluable aid is
offered to parents who are anxious to
give their children the best possible
opportunities for study and instruction.
The remarkable list of schools on the third
discriminating search among these adyer-
tisements and the correspondence and personal
interviews with teachers which they suggest
and invite can hardly fail to reward the in
curing parent with the discovery of the very
school which he has been longing to find.
DYNAMITE At SEA.
Nothing occurred yesterday calculated to increase