The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-09-23
HOW AND WHY
OUR CHILDREN SHOULD RE ED
UCATED.
The Needs of the Next Generation I'm
the New Standardization the Child
of Christianity and Government.
j. ". W. IN Liberty Esho,

J. W. W. in Liberty Esho,
Every child, man or woman,
young or old is being educated day
by day and year by year; this edu-
cation is acquired in wright or wrong
ways and as it is received so are its
fruits reaped in usefulness or fail
ure. Now and then there appears
upon the scene of life men and wo-
men, whom the world applaud as
self-made; but, were the secret fer
reted out, we would find they owe
their marked success to early train
ing or teaching, either at home or in
some school room presided over by
some faithful pedagogue, who has
stirred the spark Of ambition or ge-
MUS until it has blazed and become
the wonder Of men and generations
on account of its grand success. We
are among those who agree with
Gilderoy, chat every one receives
the bias of character and basis of ed
ucation very early in life" it is a
fundamental principle in pedagogies
that it is easier to teach than unteach
what has been wrongly taught: then
how necessary it is that we should
begin right. No parent is excusa-
BILE in this day if he allows his off
spring to grow up in ignorance of
all moral and intellectual improve
rnent and culture.
They are deluded or wilfully igno-
rant who can not sec that the same
kind and same amount of education
will not suffice for the needs of the
next generation, in this our "New
South, . which has inscribed upon its
banner progress, that would have
been required 20 or 80 years ago.
By education we do not mean that
familiarity with ancient or modern
lore, that makes us masters of sew
eral tongues, nor the ability to solve
infnitessimal calculus, nor the abil-
ity to repeat every rule in an En-
glish Grammar, nor yet that famil-
iarity and accuracy with mems ex-
periences, and the events of history,
which might startle even a Hume
or Bancroft, none of these, nor all
of them, can feed the starving, hui
mamie the criminal, and convert
the ungodly or heather. Education
means more than the three "R's"
1t means everything that is or may
be implied in the three CHS"
Every method or means used, which
does not tend to expand the intellect
widen the conceptions of living, ano
confirm our faith in God, is faulty
and should be discarded from ou
educational system or practices. Ed
ucate the head alone and you will
make either crank or dangerou
citizen, educate the hand alone an,
you make a servant; educate tn
heart alone and you will make
pigamy; but the true giant and tn
noblest work of God, is bein
whose heart is full Of grace, who's
head Is full of useful knowledg
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ergy and discretion.
< I1oh caI We GOuCdtc alllc IiSlli
generation, SO that they may be {
the same time good christians, goo
citizens, good laborers and goo
scholars. We say these ends ca
and have been accomplished bette
by private schools and colleges tina
by public schools and state univel
sites. Every one knows or ougl
to know, that has ever thought w
on the subject, that the public schot
system never has nor never ca
meet all the demands of churcl
State, home and individual need
Every public system is more or lie
expensive, inefficient and detriment
unless it be an absolute compulsol
system, we'll endowed and entirel
free from under political contrc
We have all seen the expensivene
and illicit use of money in our ON
public schools not rendering vail
received to the tax payer. We c.
see the inefficiency any day by ste
ping into our school rooms obser
ing there the miserable accommod