The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-03-15
MILAN EXCHANGE
SATURDAY. MARCH Is. 1854.
OUR SCHOOL INTEREST.

indispensable necessity ofieducation as
the safeguard of civil liberty, the
handmade of religion, and the qualifi>
cation for the right appreciation and
advancement of all the worthy enter
prises of life In order to the pro-
motion of education, the fostering
and development of all the ends that
ennoble life, there must be schools.
A school should be systematized
form of government, asserting its con-
trolling power by wholesome methods
for the consummation of literary ends
There must be subordination, or the
enterprise fails of its purpose. Chill
dren are wonderfully Influenced by
their parents in their department at
school Parents cannot adopt more
efectual means Of blighting the edu
cationaI interest of their children than
by berating their teachers IN their
presence; this shakes confidence and
destroys respect, thereby generating
discomfort, discouraging spirit of in>
subordination that will eliminate in
literary failures: worse still, inculca-
ting habits of willful rebellion that
will brook no restraint; and next
thing the boy stands branded as
public criminal, to whose guilt the
parent is in no fgurativs sense access
sorry. Teachers must control, child
rem must obey, parents must sanction
and not oppose, lest they encourage
their children in that way that leads
to ruin.
A good school is indispensable to
the enterprise, elevation and prosper
ity of any community. 1t is wonders
full what life and thrift it engen-
ders, quickeping soul pulse in every
laudable enterprise.
Milan ought to have a good school
just one-where the bright, sunny
faces of all the children and youths
break in light ripples of glad greeting
for mutual encouragement in their
literary tolls; ''as iron sharpeneth iron,
so the face of man that of his fellow"
learning by association to know each
other, and fostering friendships that
will bind them in community of ct
fort for advancing the great ends of
public veal Factions are miserable,
factions breed discord, factions set OH
into clicks that scowl against each
other; the parents are offish, the chi
dren of the one party fGut the chill
dren of the other party, aud all re
suits in a general break down business
that sheds its blight through every
department. There is power in union,
Inspiration in good school--inspira.
ton that makes teachers teach better,
pupils study and learn better, pat
rons glad and feel hetter. Divisions
white down to little discouraging
affairs; nothing permanent but al
disappointment and failure. My
fellow townsmen, would You have /
good name from without that woulC
make others fall in love with you
town. aud be Influenced to come anC
settle in your midst; let it go out tina
you have good school. They tina
come under such influences, are al
most without exception interprisins
citizens, aud will do you good. Al
yoar material interests under sucl
auspices will flourish. and you will SCI
the end of your desires in these things
But feed factions, and all is failure
Division in this one vital interest vii
difuse its deadly virus in every Other
One Fundamental evil generates ii
shiny brood that do not copfne thei
ravnges to one department alone; bu
little leaven leaveneth the Who'll
lump. Omitted We stand; divide
we fan" BETA