The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-07-31
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The educational convention inst closed
was pronounced by competent judges to
be the largest ever held on the globe, the
must successful financially and the
grandest and most important in it's dis
play OF school work. A few words on
topics not reached by the editorial cor
respondence may be of interest to the
readers of The Pilot.
The exhibits contained SAMPLES of
school work done in all subjects. in all
parts Of the land. The state of Iowa.
which excepting Wisconsin, had the
greatest number Of visitors, had also the
most magnificent display. In all the
exhibits the observant and reflective
teacher could not avoid seeing that the
concrete and natural methods are fast
gaming adoption and producing good
results. Drawing, representing to the
eye what the mind had understood,
formed a very prominent feature of the
work. The kindergarten exhibits were
also very extensive and attractive. In
deed they were the leading features of
every states display, and the results at
tanned wherever this work has been ear
nestiy tried under favorable circumstan-
ces, Is calculated to win respect and gain
popularity for schools or this order
They are the foundation of real industri
al education which is now receiving the
attention OF educators. The exhibits of
work done in industrial schools were
also great and extended to work accom- :
pllshed by those deprived of sight, by
those to whom human sounds are maud
bic, and by those to whom nature has
denied the faculty of reason, as we'll as
by those possessing ell the powers of
perception and understanding. 1t was
all deserving Of admiration, and demon.
strates that child training is now receiy-
ing that profound attention and earnest
labor that must be far-reaching in their
results. The whole display showed ad.
herence to vital principle in education.
that the senses must perceive, the intel
lect understand. and the hand execute.
The humblest teacher, who might be IN
able to wrestle with the ponderous
thoughts delivered from the rostrum bv
clear, cutting metaphysical minds, could
not but be benefited by observing this
magnificent display of school work. In
deed it must be languid soul incapable
of thought or action that could not re-
ceive inspiration from it.
Southern education was thorouphly
discussed principally by the able and
aged Mr.. Orr of Georgia and by the
young, eloquent, colored Mr.. Washing
ton of Alabama. The termination Of the
war found colored population entirely
uneducated and large percentage of
whites not only ignorant but bigoted;
found country devastated by war; for
tunes sunk in worthless Confederate Sc
curities; four millions of people without
property to tax; white population with
out the adequate means to meet the de-
mands OF taxation. But people had to
be educated. To be educated there
must be schools. To establish schools
for two separate classes was a severe
strain on the people. But the work is
being pushed forward, though schools
are supported only for a very limited
period annually.
The LACK of moral principles among
the negroes forbade the mixing of the
two elements in the same school. Mix
ing would inevitably lower the standard
of the whites without being highly con-
ducive to the interests of the negro.
VIII they eventually united They show
signs of mutual sympathy IS the negro
accumulates property SO that his inter
ests become bound up with those of the
white man. But whether they will in
the future be trained in the same schools
is question which, in the words of MIR.
Orr, no living man can now answer.
The liberality and the candor of the
southern men, both black and white,
who touched upon this topic, are worthy
of rivalry by the northern republicans
who rail at their southern neigEbors.
Northern Legislators would do we'll to
learn that sympathy is not generated by
legislative enactmsnts, and sympathy |
between the whites and blacks must !
operate mutually before the races can
i've together in absolute friendship and |
brotherhood. Northern republicans have |
lone much to make the black man feel |
that the northern whites are his only |
friends and the southern whites his only |
enemies. But thu negro is now learning, |
% use the idea of Prof. Washington, that
ais southern neighbors are not all fiends, |
md that his northern friends are not all |
Ingels.
DR.. Curry of Virginia lectured on
and education. He dedaced
he logical conclusion that to perform
he duties of citizen neoessitates edu-
alton. He asserted and re- asserted,
mid deafening applause, that the sever
st strain to which our country has yet
'een subjected was the granting of the
lective franchise to an element unfit bv
IS previous disadvantages to use the
rivilege intelligently.
Last Wednesday forenoon was devoted
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