Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-28
SALTWATER.

Tommie Warren has been up to Staple
ton for six weeks and has gained six
pounds. Tommie, stay a year.
Gillespie & Harper are putting on the
upper deck of their new boat and will
have it ready to launch as soon as the ice
| is out of the lake.
The boom company is building new
boat, to be used by that company in tow
ing logs in the lake and to do such other
business as they may require.
The lake is breaking up fast. 1t is open
| down to McKusick Anderson's boom.
Parties should be careful about crossing
| the lake with teams. 1t is better to pay
the toll than to take the chance of loosing
| the team.
| The school meeting Saturday evening,
was universally interesting from the fact
| that all who came had some interest in
the management of the schools and the
branches to be taught. 1t would not be
expected that every one came with the
same idea as to the course of instruction
1t has got to be quite an important matter
| with our citizens as to the branches that
should be taught in our public schools,
| and also the mode of grading graded
schools. Mr.. Torinus struck the key note
when he said that there should be more
attention paid to the primary department.
The first great object to be attained in a
community of poor people was to fit their
boys for practical business life by teach
| ing them the fundamental principals
upon which all business is transacted.
And so fast as the child improves and the
mental develops let him advance. The
child must mark out his own course and
it is the teachers duty to assist and not to
prescribe the course of study.
1t is fact that there are many things
that are hard to overcome in graded
school, from the fact that in a graded
school the child is expected to remain in
a certain room a certain number of years.
regardless of the advancement that child
might have made. 1t is matter of fact
that there are children in our schools to-
day that are fully up to the class that is
two years in advance of them, but they
are not allowed to be advanced to that
class, because they have not stayed their
two years in the A or the B class, which
ever they happen to be in at the time. 1t
is also matter of fact that there are
children that would be two or even more
years ahead OF the class that they are in,
if they were allowed to go as fast as they
could accomplish their work
The feeling that prevailed last night
was to let the child advance in those
studies which were adapted to his or her
taste and to hold them back in no study,
unless it was those studies which were
brought into requisition in everyday life.
The poorer class of our citizens are not
able to keep their children at school to
learn French, German and Latin IN order
to have a sufficient amount of education
to perform the ordinary problems that
arise in actual business life. We are
fighting lawsuit to-day because the
board of education has attempted to
dictate to the child and the parent the
study that they should pursue and that
they must pursue or they could go no
further, and at the same time that branch
was of no practical benefit to that child.
Let the school board and the teachers
give the child a practical education il
the shortest possible time, and then if the
parents want luxuries let them paw for
them.