Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-08-15
\ n THE SCHOOLS.
,n AT THE EDUCA-
lIL ASSOCIATION.

ans. Education Up from a
on'nrdation-fublic schools Not
fo"'",,, e scientific Truths Per-
Wh'n nature Are Taught.
10 H s,nr great movements which
Pr .a way will lift the white
|rs .,,r 10 its rightful place in the
PNrl! 's,,nr people. They are (1)
flf The ,hc training with each
|I I'so formed for each other,
' i!,,,ot,alIectual sympathy may be
' nnd ihcir mutual estimate
'''" mare thorough knowledge
u a, u" aifords: (a) the financial
l',. . Of women, that they may
[E la to marry in order to Sc
~. "a, a reform in dress. that
Po." have better health. greater
(,a',br, enter upon home life
f. hon hopeful conditions; and (4)
Erage. that woman's influence
[,"tnr may react upon govern
~ secure more just laws for
(,.ctiou and heavier penalties
|'o.,. who assail the physically
reforms should be inculcated
Fsi. schools and wrought into
;n% of the young people. l do
.G.t this should be done in any
but as the outcome of that
L;niop' in a public school that
/ developed from the teachers
record. and, most of all, his or
satisfies in Massachusetts
sin the cmployments in which
fowcst wages are paid women
aver 10 per cent. of the work.
! in the cmployments that pay
[orl, women constitute hardly
|ncr cent. Women standing
H. with men are also paid less
! the same work: the proportion
4 a woman twenty years of age
lms is made to work for the
les as boy of ten" Public
kldren should know these facts
| Indignation should be aroused
(ch a state of things.
(rd of God has been largely dis
|om our public schools to the
Christians. but the God of the
never more vitality present than
Fee of science with its "Thus
|torc," "Thus saith Reason"
|tl the law"
BE- child's education up from a
Bodily habits that
bfpl and pure mean more to the
future than intellectual acu-
kquiremcnts. The man wonder
N a house beautiful, but science
Ken as the Bible does, that
Eefleth this temple him shall
|oy, for the temple of God is
|ch temple We are. /" The child
en that this destruction is not
b. ycngeancc,2 but as the inev-
|Ncl OF violating natural laws so
h that obedience to them would
happy life.
Bile schools are not "Godless"
|the>e truths are taught. The
! Ticulum palpitates with divini-
|o!ics have eXcellcd Protestants
: 10 the young the basis and
|weccpts of a pure life. Ire
he most virtuous peasantry in
confcssedly as the outcome of
|Fation. Before their first COM
|oys and girls are specifically
duty and the rcasonablencss
purity.
point of view of science, they
is be taught in our schools.
= Of be done in the direct manner
bach them to let alcoholic drinks
10 alone, but by abolishing the
! using time for physical train
ping to the systems Of Dclsarte
masters; circulating the White
|igc and literature, and per-
Raching the pupils one by one or
koups of boys by themselves,
by themselves, the facts of
y and hygiene in reference to a
crsonal purity. Fewer pupils
assigned to each teacher, and
Fulture should be the basis OF
lion.
girls the gospel of dress that
BIO ligature: the vulgarity OF
Nh line" made in the waist that
|ne of an hour-glass or a "yel-
ft;' and the danger of tilted
throw all the vital organs out
Natural place. Let the teacher
al culture, whom l like to call a
oFticulturist," train the chill.
10 permit the insignia of i'm
on the walls, and not to accept
literature upon the playground.
th on school boards that they
the teacher to guard the little
h>t these dangers.