The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-07-07

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rect Ianguage-and Of course children
taught by II IN lave to he ntaught
before they can he properly instructed
If you were to employ me TO do piece
Of work for you, and should fail to
do it right, 50 that YOU would have to
employ some one else to do the work,
or let it go undone, would you not con
slider the money paid to me thrown
away? I should consider It worse than
thrown away, and il / were honest Id
''s:ep down and out" to some labor
that l did know now to. do, or serve
an apprenticeship.
But, says the bacEwoods school
teacher, 4 am offered twenty five dol
lars mon.h to take a school, and that
heats farming YOU bet it does; 50 I
believe I'll take it if I can ger a
stifeate." The directors, more igno-
rant than the teacher, think he Is just
the man for the place, and as the sal
AIRY he will teach for IS very reasona-
BILE, they employ him Gil a thinlgrado
certificate, and he begins to teach he
school
I viii say, a great deal that he learns
the children is incorEect, and it takes
talent, time, education and money to
unlearn them, before they can be pol
ished, or else they remain in ignorance.
Their grandparents were pretty we'll
informed in the rudimcnts Of English,
but their posterity are advancing
Backwards There are many grown
people in Tennessee who can neither
read nor write Thc low srlaries paid
to incompetent teachers keep that kind
Of teachers in the schools, while COM
pctent teachers, on whose education
thousands Of dollars have been ex
pended are driven out OF our schools,
and we are the losers. Again, it is
hard for many Of our people 10 under
stand the advantage Of employing an
educated teacher for $50, SO, or 500,
over an uneoucatei one for so, $50,
or $50 per month. For an iIIustra-
ton, you have bought seme fine cloth
from which to have suit made. MIR
A is a tailor Of fine reputation; he
served for many years an apprentice
ship ut his trade, | know he viii give
me a good fit, but he wants to charge
me twenty dollars! willie here IS Mr.
g., who, though he never served any
time to learn his trade, and l hear
people say he don't cut and make /
anything right, charges only eight /
dollars, and III try him. v h-ch /
one would you get to cut and make
your suit? low much more valuable |
our children are than suit Of clothes! |
Again, the school directors ought to
he educated men, if they appreciate
and employ educated feathers. For /
an unIettered man TO be elected school
director Is an outrage 10 any commu-
nifty. Some ignorant directors and
people constantly say that a school
teacher should have no better salary /
than Is paid to common Iaborers!
Though the teacher may have spent
SIX years OF ms life III college, besides
the time spent IN MS eomm"n school
training ana paid o"t Two or three
thousah" dollars 10 obtain an educa-
Noh' his labor Is sad 70 be worth no /
more than that OF one who has never
expended money or time to learn his
trade. or an mus 'FatI2n, start two
ignorant boys out INTO the world each
possessing hTe thousand dollars III
money. One concludes TO go to school
"nd spend MS money III educating nm
self. For eight years he labor5 ossldu-
ousiy to obtain an educatIon,-at the
end OF winch time he graduates, hav-
ls spent all his money. The other
engages III farming pays three thou
sand dollars Tor farm, stocks 1t and
goes to hard work; makes fine crops
for eight years. b this time his five