Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-31
What They SAY.

M. AurelluS AntonluS: Man IS 1ol
action, not for idleness or pleasure.
A. n. Raub, Delaware: A superin.
! tendent should be required to possess
! special qualification and experience III
te0ching.
Frank W. Blackmar, Phi. D., Kansas
! All great universities of ancient and
modern times have received govern.
ment support.
Sec. J. w. Dickinson, Massachusetts,:
No one is fully qualified to select q
| textbook until he has himself used it in
| the classes.
| Supt. James S. Hook, Georgia: No
school system could be effective and
popular which should exclude the sen.
! sitive poor from its benefits.
Supt. Ira G.. Hoitt, California: Only
the very best men should be chosen as
county superintendent, progressive
earnest and practical educators.
= Supt. Solomon Palmer Alabama
! Every country worthy the name on the
! globe has organized and is now main
tanning schools at public expense fol-
the education Of the young.
Principal John s. Crombie, Mime.
apolis, Mimi: To take boys and girls
! coming from schools widely different
in their work and showing almost every
kind of training, and blend them into
| a homogeneous school whose charac.
teristic is good scholarship, is difficult
| problem.
Agent George H. Martin, Massachu.
! sets: Nine-tenths of all the idleness
| which one sees in schools is of chill
dren who have reading-book open be.
fore them. There is no more allurine
! temptation to disorder than the prac.
tice of assigning reading lessons to
! young children to be studied at their
; desks.
! Supt. W. B. Powell. Washington, D.
C.: Perhaps no one system of health
exercise now prominent is either prac-
ticable in the public schools or desira-
! BILE for the American citizen. Not
! great strength and abnormal develop
| ment, but good health, elasticity, SYM
metrical development are desirable.
Some exercises from the German sys-
| tenn, some from the Swedish. some
from the many American systems may
ne united as an experiment. as expe-
rience may dictate
| The Ta.mud: The world is saved
only by the breath of the school chill
dreE.
| Rev. M. j. Savage, Boston: The
school chl44ren are the nation in the
making.
Martin Luther: The strength of a
! sown does not consist in its towers and
, buildings but in counting great
1umber OF learned. serious, honest, and
well-educated citizens.
J John Ruskin: The words '.school, 81
/ 'college. university" rightly under
stood, implies the leisure necessary for
, learning, the companship necessary for
: sympathy, and willfulness restrained by
! the daily vigilance and tirmness of tu-
! tors and masters.
\. 4. Z. Dawson. late q. S. Com
missioner of Education: 1t is idle to
deceive ourselves by making our sys-
tenn appear greater than it is, while
| there are so many poorly endowed
and Uninterrupted colleges and uni
vefsltles IN our country, and SO many
! thousand illiterate citizens among rs.
Caroline P. Dalton. Salem, Mass:
Perhaps beneath our shaping hands
some great reformer will spring into
! life, who will revolutionize the world
when we are quietly sleeping. Per
haps we are laying the foundation
stones in the upbuilding of some char
| acter, whose mission shall be to lead
into eternal freedom the slaves of ap-
! petite and passion.