The Osceola times., 1883-11-24

thdI IL ls, W many CHiluieH' ne
directing of each infantile mind
would be undertaken by the mother
sand father and every good and pleas
ant thing that the child should know,
would be impaired to it before going
out into the world, to win for itself
sustenance, position and wealth.
But as our home life is ordered, this
very important duty of educating
our children has to be relegated to
someone protesting an aptitude for
such special work; and whether it is
done well, or i'll, we never know un-
til we see the result, in the characters
formed for time and eternity, under
their guidance.
The necessity for educating the
children of the human family is the
most pressing necessity of to-day;
and if we stay to consider the sparsi-
ty of the means available for that
particular work, the outlook is ap-
palllng, and here in the United
States, where every man is an auto
crat in the matter of governing him
self the necessity for a complete de-
velopmc mt, of the moral, mental and
physical nature, is imperatively nee
essary; and here as nowhere else is
the work so nearly well begun, as in
Gus Common Schools, intended as
they are to give cur children suili-
cient training to enable them to take
hold Of any speciality, to which their
mind isinclined, and acquire it sue
cessfully through the habits and
means of research attained in the
common School course. BY the per-
manancy as one of our national in
stitutions which the system has at
tained, and the possibilities of its ef-
ficiency, a respect and love for it is
engendered, which is only equalled
by the love we have for the integri-
rity of the Nation, and Constitution
Of our fathers, and as the responci-
bility of maintaining it in all its nee
essary efficiency rests with each vo-
ter of a community, for that commu-
nifty, and as it takes the parents place
in the training of their children, it is
really the nearest to the people Of
all the features of our National
economy.
Here in Osceola school district we
have not lived up to our privileges
in Common School matters, partly
because some of us have regarded it
as a charitable institution imposed
upon taxpayers for the benefit of
the poor, we always have with us;
others because colored people, who
lately were listed with our horses
and COWS as property, share the ben
&C ,.,,.b %ba f,ao tor,. ntbarc hn.
cause the teachers, who drift down
here and take charge of our schools
are rarely properly trained for the
work; and others because no special
system oftheology is taught in them;
these and other minor reasons damp
en- our ardor in the maintenance of
our schools, and consequently our
children grow up without the grand
ground work of a practical education,
attained under the auspices of the
greatest people under the canopy CT
Heaven to-day. wish we would
let the dead past bury its dead |"
and go onward in this matter from
now. We have a school house suf-
fciently good for our present neces-
sites, we have elected three of our
best educated and most enterprising
men to represent us as directors OF
the school, and it only remains with
us to abide by their Intelligent law
full actions in engaging teachers, di-
recting the progress of school affairs,
and if need be in dismissing incor-
rigable pupils and teachers. With
such oneness of purpose, and an
ever present interest IN the individ-
ual progress of each child that we
send there, we cannot fail to have a
good common School, and please let
me say here that our present school
is not a High School. There has
never been a cent of money voted
in Mississippi County for the main
tenance of a High School, and any
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