The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-04-11
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The school subject.

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means it has, a great and q good work.
! The board will, if given the means and
the moral encouragement needed, do a
/ still greater and better work. 1t will
4 have good and thorough schools in
| every ward in the parish, with such q
graded school in Lake Charles as every
parish town should have. This graded
school in Lake Charles, if established,
should not only afford thorough in
strnction to all of the children IN this
ward, of the school age, but it should
also have a department for the special
training of teachers for tho parish
public schools. This would, in a short
time, ensure better class Of schools,
turning out each year, more efficiently
instructed students. 1t would give
uniformity, system, thoroughness and
that discipline, without which all
schools arc failures.
The success and the usefulness of
the proposed graded school will de-
pend on the size and adaptabiliiy of
the school building, and on the num-
Der of pupils given each teacher, as
well as on the capability of the prin-
cipal and the other instructors The
discipline that is indispensably necos-
sary to thorough work in school
cannot be had-cannot be enforced
in an il-arranged, imperfectly fur
nished and over-crowded room Or
der is said to be heavens first law, and
order cannot be had il an over-crowd-
cd, ill-ventilatGd ,unfurnishod room. In
fact, such schools are anything but
heavenly TO the teachers, If they are
fit for their positions, and to tho pu.
pills who want to learn. Such schools
are, of course, to II greater or less ex-
tent, failures. Any. school that does
not exert a wholesome discipline, Civ
ing ont refining and elevating ilfu.
encc, in addition to the instruction of |
the text books is, to the extent itfails
inthese, IL failure. r,.aagaaa l.. |
Lake Charles should have, a graded |
school, in Il building arranged and
adapted for such IA school. This
building should have the needed room,
should be properly arranged, well
ventilated and thoroughly furnished.
Each room, in addition to good and
comfortable school desks and seats,
should have ample blackboards, out
line. maps, globes, reference books,
etc, and teachers desk and chair.
No room should hayo more pupils
than can be comfortably seated, and
no teacher given more classes than he
or she can rightly and thoroughly |
teach. The pupils in each room should
be taught order, neatness and system,
with self-reliance and self-respect.
They should be taught to enter the
school room by system, study and
recite, while in there, by 4 system, and
to 60 out, when they leave, by a sys-
tenn. @glaa
No army can be conquering one
without discipline; no State or country
can survive without law and order, /,
and the universe itself, would, in an
be wreck II its system, or
order, was broken. SO with a school.
1t must have order 10 succeed. Each
school is "A little world in epitome, Il
commonwealth of interests that must
be subseryient to the common veal.
II is not meant by these remarks
on order and discipline that teachers
should be tyrants or that pupils should Ii
be unthinking vassals, The best j
schools are the least governed, The {
most successful schools have the most
perfect order, with the least apparent {
atfort. Give the true teacher the pu- FL
pills, the needed room, the suitable
Fulnitnre and the necessary appliances
and he or she will, at once, and with
out trouble eliminate order, discipline !
and success, ''
Another thing needed, will be q I
inform and correct series of text
books The best workman upads the /
best Of tools, and the learner needs !
.he best and most efficient help, The |
world Is progressive and the teacher /
and his books must be progressive or
be failures. Tho teachers, the schools /
ind the books, that will ft tho boys {
and the girls of this generation for 1
Lhe duties of life must, each, be mp ,
with the times. Teachers with fogy /
deas and etfete methods, and books q
IF . hy-gone generation, are hut clogs Z
nd hiRdrnnfes in the cause of edl- :
sation. h
Public schools are now a recognized Z
gowcr ll the educatinn Of Tie young, I
nd IT then bellooyes each parish and I
own 10 strive for pxcellencc in these :
'ehoals. Graded schools are now :
lcccssily IN every growing md pros Y
lefqus tawib and they are in fact the I
,nly pnblic schools that give any equiv {
dent for the money paid ont in lakes. y
lake Charles is large epongh, iich q
,nough, and has children euaugh col
seep mp n graded school for nine or
en- months in each year. This graded
chool need not necessarily Interfere tl
gitb nor destroy private schools, In b
0f the size Of Lake Charles !.
,riyate schools ought to be sustained. Il
md in lHhay Of the larger cities thoy il
considered ~ imperative pecessily,5l il
D Montgomery, Ala, Louisyille, KY, b
I'D other Southern cities, tllare are 8
'qblie graded schools, high schools, il
olleges IL fact, and yet IL both Tie /,
itics banned lbere are teachers Of q
Iriyate schools who get 8 o per month Ii
81 paeit pnuil and WHO have Ia rafns,s / Il