The Forrest City times., 1891-02-27
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.
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How Shall We Keep the Facts Be-
 fore the People?

bends largely on the interest manifested by those engaged therein is fact undis- puted by the average thinker. and that this is eminently true of our educational system goes without saying in the light of experience. The condition Of the com mon schools. the academy, the college or university is but an index to the interest shown by the people upon whom they severally depend for existence. The com mon school system is better as the people of the state are alive to the vast benefits arising therefrom. The high school is prosperous as the community which created it, and which it in turn directly benefits. realizes the responsibility of in dvidual to individual. The college is in- fiuential as the people at large are inter ested in the well-being of society and the happiness and prosperity of the rising generation. Possibly the time never was when those who peopled the earth could look over their system of education or in- structjon and call it perfect; certainly not in this day and age of activity and ma terial development in our great world of men who fail and men who succeed.
 As q general rule the people are willing | to do a thing when convinced of any ad- vantage in so doing. Selfish interest alone | would be sufficient to prompt them to ac tion, even were they not actuated by the higher and nobler sentiment of philan thropy and morality.
 First, thing must be necessary; the the people must be convinced Of its ne- | cessity, then'they must be induced to do that thing by being shown that the re- suits to be obtained are we'll worth the expenditure of their time and energy in ;t. ,l.l xt,x.l ,l,, slowly. and must be agitated or dstrib uted before it will make much in any pro gresson or direction.
 In the complex fabric of human society certain duties are necessarily delegated to certain individuals which must be per | formed by them for the general good From this principle arise the various trades, professions and callngs in life. | How to keep the people alive to the needs of our educational interests, and l how to induce them to act in accordance with the demands made upon them. is one of the many problems for our educators to solve. There are many conditions in our educational system that must be changed before they can be benefcially operative. The theory of our system is a good one, but the practical application I intent Our common system of educa- ton universally is the outgrowth of ne- cessity.
 The education of an individual pri- marily and properly belongs to those to whom it owes it's existence. But in the community of mans interests certain delegated and conferred duties are reeog- nized as necessary to attain the greatest l nf ton is but the operation of this delega- 1 ted necessity. Our common system of education. subject to the municipal au- thority or the power of the community, is universally received as the best means of bringing out the advantages of the com ing generation to tho community or municipality; and since every community is an integral part of general govern ment, 1t is the duty of the community tc perfect its own development, so that il may be beneficial to the general govern. ment it helps to create, and of which it is a component part
 Since a community is responsible to the government for the standard of intelli, gence and ethics made by it's people, how this end is best accomplished, and what agencies must be employed to produce the highest and best forms of citizenship, are questions for practical and rational so- lution. The majority of our citizenship receive no education save from the com. mon school and tho school of experiences hence to make the common school better and more effective should Dc the constant aim of those to whose care these interests have been delegated.
 IL is not the province of this paper tc enumerate the many evils in our schoo system, nor to suggest remedies therefor but merely to investigate the best mean, of getting intelligent action on the part oi the people to make tho bad good the good better and more effective.
 A lack of professional courtesy on tho part of teachers. examiners and school officers may be cited as one reason foI this lethargic state of public sentiment. The more people mix and mngle in the ordinary professions of life the more uniti- cation of interest they will have. Thl more freely they discuss reasonable differ ences in the light of logic, reason and in telligence. the higher will be the plain ol their work. It is gratifying, however, t note the increased interest manifested relative to these matters by those en gagged In the great work of education iI this state.
 Our teachers associations have done much for the schools. and they are inds pensable to the live and progressive teacher who wants to be we'll equipped and while these meetings are of great ad vantage to the professional element ir educational work. the people, for whom all things are done, remain practically in the same condition as though no meetingi were held. To make the people see, tc induce them to act IS the one great prob
 lem in our educational unknown quanti ties. There is no royal road to its solu. ton, no narrow path hitherto untrodden and undiscovered by which this end may be reached. No single force by which the great philanthropic theo res for the future well-being O humanity may be put into practi cal operation. The means to this end ara various as individual differences or ma tional distinctions, and all must at som, point along the line be brought in, in or der to reach the highest type of mora and intellectual development As an in strument in keeping the facts before tn, people" and reaching the public mind the newspaper is unexeellcd. This is trul, an age of printing. 3ooks are made b, the million, magazines delight the cul tured, while newspapers fall from tn. whirling cylinders of the steam printnl press thicker than leaves in the famed vale of Vallambrosa.
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