Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-08-08
Gurfka Dailp Sentinel.
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 8. 1883.



contemporaries that extraordinary efforts
will be made at the opening Of the school
term next September to ~rcorganize the
public schools at that place and start
them out on a higher plane. The enter
prising community of Reno seem to have
become thoroughly aroused to the impor-
lance of their schools, and to have be-
cone at last convinced that by an earnest,
active and thoughtful administration of
educational affairs great and gratifying
results may be accomplished, while with
nobody to take hold and see to it
that the maximum benefits of q public
education are realized their schools might
run along indefinitely in the old groove
producing but poor results while the
very best are possible. The pride
Of our neighbors seems to have been
aroused in what, if calmly considered in
all its serious aspects, must appear to
all a matter Of inestimable interest.
1t would be well for other communi-
ties-not excluding Eureka-if the same
public spirit were evinced and the same
practical interest manifested.
The public schools in any community,
in order to be made completely success
full, must occupy . warm place in the
heart Of the people. The sympathy OF
the public always meets with a response
from the school children and their teach
ers. They are encouraged by knowing
that their efforts are watched with solici-
tude and their success noted, not only by
parents and other relatives and friends
Of the pupils, but also by an appreciative
public besides.
This moral support acts as . stimului
and makes school work, to a great extent,
q labor Of love. 1t develops industry
it fills the schoolhouse with bright eyes
and anxious faces; it drives away
listlessness, which is . disease that toe
commonly prostrates a whole school II
which there is never any good excuse fol
the c~ontagion, and it puts wholesome
emulation in its place.
The Reno folks have sent East and
imported several teachers of 6rst-clasi
reputation as educators, who are familiar
with the latest and best methods OF in
struction. In this, if they have beer
able to assure themselves fully OF the
qualifications of the persons employed
and have therefore avoided a sometimes
ugly risk, they have lone well, for in
selecting teachers capabilities alone
should be the criterion Of employment
The argument of ''local talent" as
such merely, is a delusion and a snare
Other things being equal, however, there
is no doubt but it is entitled to sympa'
thetic preference.
The Trustees OF Reno are to be com
mended again for their purpose of making
a trial of the Froebel system in theiI
schools. Mrs. Scoville, a lady OF very
great worth and culture generally, has
prepared herself in New York City te
teach by this admirable and truly philo'
sophical method, and has been employed
by the School Trustees Of Reno that the
children in all the primary departments
may be started in the most attractive
and natural way of calling forth at once
BEAUTIFULLY, vigorously and symmetri
cally all the faculties Of the budding in
tellect.
The Journal says they are going t.
have the model school at Reno. Ih'
facts of the case certainly warrant tina
expectation.
But Reno should not have the only
model school. There is no reason VIII
there should not be a model school IL
every considerable town in the State.