News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-11

school and chur'so frequently been
under the same r. and no where else
have school hous, so frequently pre-
ceded homes. III idea was planted
with the planting che nation. Very
wisely did the PUN look to the cul-
ture OF the mind a'ell as the heart.
Church, school and email in one build
ing of logs, characteed the first set
tlement of New Eland. Chursh.
school and arsenstcIth its brazen
howitzer planted on roof. was a fit
emblem of the seedhought whose
fruit we now enjoy. 'lr liberties we
cherish, and our righwe will main
tain."
The fact that our sells are public.
and free, may have teIacy to lessen
them in our esteem. Wsually prize
the common blessings life least
though frequently the 1t valuable.
If in my remarks to-nigh say aueht
that sounds like criticism pray Won
attribute it not to any dislrd for the
institutions of my country,t to just
zeal in the cause of eduSn. which
ought to manifest itself in life. and
purposes of every true Aican. I
would not by any thing Gay say
detract from the just esteem which
our public schools are almostyersally
held; and if am able to elevthem in
your regard, and cause y,to ap-
preciate them better, 1 shalaye ac-
complished all 1 have expe: all I
have dared hope for. There bweyer
little to be gained by simplyaising
an institution. He who disco error
and helps to eliminate it, IGNORE
than he who points out virtulat it
may be praised.
/ said awhile ago that we ususnas-
ter language in the home, du the
first five years of our existenc,We
do this without the aid of booAnd
with no time spent in teaching. we
learn like that in the public scho If
not, why not? Do we growak
as we advance in years? OF
necessarily. We should, and usy
do, grow stronger mentally as W.
crease in physical vigor. The trce
is more seeming than real. The
guage is not burden to the min
the child. 1t does not have to tr1I
not compelled to study, in order
learn it. 1t is something in which
child takes lively interest. Langua
is the child's natural element. May
not learn a lesson here? Nature foJe
few truths, little education upon nSs
She creates a desire for it and suppl
an abundance with which to satisfy Il
desire. She does not thrust it up
him. Man must seek it or menta
starve. When our schools follow t.
example, more will be accomplish
and less work will need to be done.
One of the errors to which 1 wish
call attention is what has been term
shot house education. One statu
in my opinion, allows children to atte
school at least three years too you
In this busy world every thing is
the high pressure principle. We hu
the children to walk, before their lin
are able to support them fill their Ii
brains with all sorts of nonsense-n
sense to the chlld-before their mi
are able to retain it; set them to w
when they ought to be at play; n
them into society when they ought tc
in the nursery; make ladies and gen
men of them at thirteen graduate th
from college at sixteen ; set them ur
business at twenty. Will it be stral
if they are gray at thirty, old and inf
at forty, dead and buried at fifty ?
know am wasting my breath whe
raise my voice against the ways of
world. Society is travelling at lightn
speed, and he who does not like to gC
that rate can get off the track.
can't stop the train. The whole m
of Americans are on stampede
wealth, for fame, for something,
everything, and he who underta
to stop them, will be crushed to dei
This is Saturday night, however,
no harm may arise if we take q
breath for once, even though we ST.
the same gait Monday morning. 1 G
wish to urge upon you that we are I
ming our children to death. They
keep up for a while, but they, like
will drop out at the very noon of
crippled and exhausted. It is very
to go with the crowd and yet go slo
than the crowd goes. Then, too, it
pleasure to pass few along the I
J apd feel thaiz hat hxAath- ns- one hnr
on' Ihls is all right and proper.
trouble is we are doing our best runr
at the beginning of the race. One ON
70 strike his best gait on the bc
streteh, at about sixty years. If
VIII look over the lives of the great r
OF the world you will find them h,
hearty and doing their best work
ABOUT three score years. Some penin
nave gone up like rockets, and asst
lshed the world by their br1lliancy 9
very early age, but they have usua
come down like sticks, also at an ea
age. Genius is seldom great. Men
genius do not and never have ruled
world. Industry, perseverance q
honesty make all men great. But N
ooclous children are the pride of paren
and to satisfy this pride the mem
faculties are crowded to the utter ne
lect OF the physical. AS a result IL
land OF ours is full of little white fac,
'lckly boys and girls, mental prodip1e
physical dwarfs, human monstrositie
About all that is done for the Chi
n the public school, before the age
en- that tells on him in after years.
o dwarf his physical powers. q
earns but little during that time ,
'est' L say l1ttle-vastly too much fc
ne chlld-but little as compared wit
nat ne may learn in the same length G
me after he natures a good stron,
nyslque. L verify believe any chill,
Ill learn more of what is usuall,
'ught In public schools, in one year a
le age of twenty, than in the Who'll,
'riod between five and ten. Why i,
that nearly all our great men bav,
zen from among the number, who
la Few advantages in early life WHY
It that few men of mark have boer
" bred ? Why is it that the mind tba,