The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1883-03-08
FoR THE HERALD.
New E.1fe in the Free schools.

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MEssRs. EDITORS I'VE are much grati-
coming thoroughly aroused to the impor-
tance Of educating their children. They are
also beginning TO discriminate between what
is broad and useful training and what is
only gloss and tinsel.
Education should look to general develop
ment; yet life is too short and the time Of
those who must labor too precious not to
direct their education to some specific end.
While their faculties are training and ex-
pandiDg they should also be learning dexter
ity. This is indispensable in any sTocation.
The farmer, mechanic and professional man
each should be coed theorist; yet there is
concrete knowledge to be learned nowhere
but by contact with tools and ingredients.
Who can give the nultifarious details OF the
shop, the farm or the schoolroom tn any one
understaudingly? No one. There are les
sons, indispensable, to be learned by practice
and practice alone.
But we have digressed, and win return to
the prime idea. a CLEAN Of light has dawn
ed on the ignorant, the poor and the inlet
tered. By that ray they can see, read and
interpret a handwriting on the wall. That
writing gives them just cause for alarm. 1t
is calculated to make them throw off their
supine lethargy. Its meaning nerved the
heart of Leonidas at Thermopyle and inspired
"Foster education or in few short years you
will possess only in the name that glorious
heritage of American liberty transmitted by
constitution, whose Price was yalor, blood
and indomitable love Of liberty.
They see by this small but unerring ray
millionaire after millionaire arise-syndicate
after syndicate form-corpora after cor
poration inaugurating-eac weaving Its
meshes around the great mass of struggling
humanity. First common privilege is TAX
en- from the people and given to the great
BEEEFACTIoN. The mighty body wants no
more-it then can put the people under tri-
butte and one step down to slavery has been
made-slavery, not to the President-not to
the general government, but to q wheel
within wheel-to these mighty nabobs and
cabals.
Nothing will keep these things, useful and
convenient in themselves, from becoming the
hugest engines of monstrous oppression that
centuries have known, but UNIVERSAL EDU-
CATION.
The time is past for sinecurists in any de-
partmentof the Free Common Schools. The
State officer must travel through the State, as
Frederick the Great did through his camp,
and see that all are on post doiag their duty
the County School Commissioners must
not expect for the schools to carry them
they must lead the schools. They must be
here, there and all about iuoculating the
teachers and scholars with tie true ideas of
education, and with all the progressive plans
that New England, Prussia or any other
land, has evolved. Teachers must rise to the
importance and dignity of their calling, feel
ing that they can do great work. The
Superintendent, Commissioner or Teacher
who does not act so, perpetrates on humanity
more injurious joke than all the fellows
perhaps in the State prison have done. The
people, the extraordinarily, demand
DEVELOPMENT in universal education.
ZERO.