The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1892-11-03
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Greater Interest Should Cen
ter in the School.
An Able Article by Chas.
=. Lyles.

To every loyal patriotic American,
the Public Schools are hailed with
enthusiasm Its interests lie next to
their home interests. In fact, it
should be equal to the home interests.
1t should be protected the same as
the home. The same fatherly care 4,
should be bestowed upon it. That
same motherly affection and devotion
should be brought to bear upon it.
Why? Because:
1st. The same boys and girls who
crowd around the fireplace, who
mingle in pleasant chat and fun,
whose beaming eyes and bright faces
make home Joy, are the same boys
and girls who make the Public
Schools.
End. The Public Schools are
expected to be next to the highest in
structor of morality Mingling day
by day with those who are the best,
we naturally follow and take example
from the most perfect. Humanity
always admires the good, the noble,
. the grand And in school the lead
ers are always the best The school
!, law speaks of it, and teachers enforce
4 it.
: 3rd. The schools are to mold
character. There is no time like the
time between the ages of six and
: twenty-one for character building.
The child-mind is similar to block
of clay just ready for the potter s
wheel and hands. Time is the wheel
and the school is the potter, and as
the time flies the child-mind is shaped
into whatever the master pleases.
Give me a child from six years ole
is until he is fourteen, and you may
have him, but my stamp will be OF
him
4th The Public Schools train thu
tai nation. Boys and girls of to-da,
raj are the men and women of tomorrow
at The statesmen of to-day were boy
'm Yesterday. From the humbles
10 schools have emerged our creates
lad men and women. In this respect, a
nd the past has been, so may the futur
NY be.
ing Now, gentlemen, you who hold I'd
Inc nations welfare between your thum
lno and finger, in the ballot, how hay
ore YOU considered the aboye2 l kno
'ar- you will take time, from your regul'
met thinking, to give it consideration.
7ed know these things you love. In
also which touches the school, touch
een the home, and that which touch
10 the home touches the nation.
ond Politics brings bread and butter
OF but few. Officers are the few. Y
shot support them. We are governed
utter the laws they make. We elect
SIX officers. Now, if we have be
oot- fooled in them, why let our politl
one views do us the same way again?
Ith say great deal about poor scho
hao poor teachers and poor schoolhous
ents, etc Our school law is good 0
ailVe founded on a good basis, that | tr
s at will stand, but il has a serious ia
ting, 1t does not provide for
man Superintendent.
mas You know there must be lea
hlor- in every thing to make it succ
timer History points out plainly results
is OIL leaders. The best and grea
mas revolutions in science, poll
as a religion, and, in fact, every til
was have had the best and most powe
MS leaders.
AS it is in our county, each tea
from, is left TO do his great work alone.
elphia signs the contract, puts IN SIX
his is day, twenty days for month, d
+ two his pay and who can prevent
oo;vod No one sends him hints as to
nod in proper method to pursue. lie III
chance to whet against that
grindstone, a County Institute.
M one looks after him to see ]
"a i'eu morality is carried out. No
'o'no bothers him if he dances at play
W uses bad language, or allows
'oA pupils to do so. No one encou
him if he does well. No 0
insane ready TO promote him TO
.ckfoot position if he deserves it.
liner on In fact there is soldier (te'
here and there all over our CO