Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-25
heavens and the earth will pass away, but
that the result of his laborS

that the result of his laborS
WILL LAST FOREVER.
Is it any wonder then cAat he loves to
erect monuments which the s.}ighe ef time
and the lapse of ages" will not destroy?
A third doctrine: The school-master has
unbounded confidence in the child. 1t is
sometimes SAID by people not especially
noted for close observation that the world
is getting worse. and that the boys are
moving on the down-grade to perdition.
have Just said that these people are not
close observers. This charge of almost
total depravity against the younger nascu-
line portion of our race is hoary with age.
Why. Horace, who was born 81 B. c.. once
made the remark: Il should be disposed
to think that the youth of this day are far
inferior to those of my boyhood, had not
my father frequently told me that the boys
of my day were very much below those of
his. And Hesied, GreciaG poet, born about
$50 B. C., is responsible for the following
dismal prophecy which we know was not
fulfilled: Il see no hope for the future of
our people if they are to be dependent upon
the frivolous youth of to-day. They are
reckless beyond desperation and opinion
ated much beyond their years. When |
was boy was taught TO be discreet and
respectful to my elders This same sad
refrain has been heard from generation to
generation, and to-day it is deluding men
whose ears are itching for melancholy
music. 1t is true that in America you
will find boys self-opinionated beyond their
years, disrespectful to their elders
and to those in authority. II is true
that frivolous youth can be found, while in
an exceedingly few localities can be seen
the dude, that travesty upon manhood, that
gayly-caparisoned embodier of emptiness
That is the worst thing l can say about the
boys But in thousands of school rooms
you will find truthful Industrious, polite,
conscientious, ambitious 1boys and girls,
children who are anxious to learn, eager to
be taught, only awaiting the presence OF
him who believes in them, and who is TO
lead them TO the plane of that higher life
the twentieth century will enjoy.
Another doctrine: The baneful influence
of intolerance and dogmatism has no right
full place in the educational world. Above
all men, those engaged i'll the ministry not
excepted, the teacher should ever be ready
TO show decent respect to the opinions Of his
fellows, and should carefully avoid wound
ing their feelings without just cause. The
professor of the university, the college or
the normal school, the superintendent, the
principal, the teacher. are all engaged in q
work that the state believes. and that we
believe, is valuable; and, as we are engaged
in common cause, each should regard the
other worthy ofssympathy and encourage
ment- We all make mistakes,
WE ALL HAVE OUR FAULTS.
1t too frequently happens that the uni
versity professor, splendidly equipped with
scholastic attainments, is a lamentable
failure in the classroom. How sad it is to
behold the fruitlesS efforts of a learned
man How useless is d magnitcently con-
structed engine if there be no means of con-
verting its mighty power to practical ben
eft How utterly worthless is a library
containing the knowledge and wisdom of
centuries should no one be able to gain ad
mission to its portals. How profitless, then,
is brilliant scholarship on the part of the
teacher if it be not brought to bear with
effect upon the intellect the heart and the
will of his students. Some normal school
graduates are not entirely without
blemish. 1t is fact none will deny that
much professional training, with little at
tention to scholarship, results in weakness,
narrowness and bigotry. Many man,
through the splendid genius of common
sense and by years of experience, has gained
a practical knowledge of psychology and
pedagogy which Diesterweg, Payne and
Parker would commend. The last one of
US has his faults, his grievous faults. 1.-The
deadliest SIM says Carlyle, sis that same
supercilious consciousness of no Sin-that is
death; the heart so conscious is divorced
from sincerity, humility and fact; is dead
1t is pure as dead dry sand is pure Let
us examine ourselves as we examine others,
and practice repentance, that virtue most
divine and exercise charity, which covers
a multitude of SINS
Nor can the teacher afford to be burdened
with what may be termed geographical in
tolerance. The accident of birth beneath
the shadow of the Alamo will make neither
a hero nor a statesman unless the elements
of greatness are found in the character of
the full-grown man. One deserves no
credit for being born in country-every
one has to be born somewhere-but his
praise or condemnation should be deter
mined only by the number and quality of
the deeds his life unfolds. The spirit of
this age and the genius of Texas institu-
tions will little brook exhibition of sectional
jealousy and local selfishness. For the lib
eral treatment of immigrants who identify
themselves thoroughly with her people,
Texas is the rival of Kentucky, who, though
"proud of her history and the lineage of
stranger to surpass the swiftest of her sons
in the race of ambition, and the strongest
in the struggle for supremacy"
1t is our imperative duty so to instruct
the child as to cause him to love his home,
to regard highly the community in which
he lives, to honor with unswervable loyalty
the state of his nativity or adoption, to
treasure up with jealous care the memories
of glories, past and present, that distinguish
this land of the South and this union of
states; but he is also to be taught to recog-
nize and to esteem manhood wherever
found, to manifest at all times liberal and
spirit toward every true American
citizen, and to estimate his fellow-men ac-
cording to character and
NOT ACCORDING TO PASSION AND PREJUDICE.
We should be tolerant of those also who
use US and say all manner of
evil against US falsely. We should not grow
angry, though the cross to be borne is
sometimes heavy indeed, when the wise
men who make the laws for this great state
pay little attention to teachers petitions
framed after much careful thought and de-
liberate judgment, or even when reputed
statesman Sneers at our laborS, and con-
remarks that the spawn from
the wayside cabin get just enough educa-
ton in the common schools to breed COM
munism and anarchy" We who are in the
public school service should not become
enraged when we hear it declared that lone
sun is better than thousand stars Rather
let US reply with kindness, but yet with
emphasis: sit is better to have starlight
than to have no light at all. Besides, every
little star that wrinkles IN the armament,
astronomy teaches US, is to the being living
near it veritable sun" Granting that the
boy in the common school gets only a
glimpse OF the land of letters, is it not cruel
TO deny him that glmpsel Do we not i'm
agine that Moses gave up his lifework with
less regret because he had been allowed to
rest his eyes for moment upon the prom
friend, or enemy, whichever.he is: "a re-
public of the people means that all
is children are to be encouraged to climb
N tho lofty summit Of kpowiedpe hut