Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-03-04
More Fudge.

lue EdltuOut W. Nd.J HIee 1908
has reached its turn IN getting off
on the fad of corporal punishment in
the public schools.
Among its sayings are the following:
To take the exclusive right away from a
parent to direct its child and delegate this
sacred duty in many cases to a brute for SIX
hours a day would be an unnatural crime
and Il gross outrage upon the liberty of both
parent and child. We have all conf
denCe in about two thirds of the school
teachers Of our State to cope with the Ameri-
can youth in his little games" yet we believe
there are teachers that need to be looked
after far more than the children, and if they,
the ignorant and brute portion of the teachers,
who advocate the aforementioned abortion,
were capable Of teaching in fact, then no
such provision would have been advanced.
Ii these confessions be true, there is
something too radically wrong aboul
the West Virginia school system to br
remedied by prohibitions of punish
ment in school.
A law making it penitentiary of.
Tense for any school authority to EN-
ploy brute" to teach school would
be more to the purpose.
We've such law in force there
would be one of two things;
l, One-third OF the teachers, like
the other two-thirds, would not be
''brutes," Or
2, One-third of the school authorities
would be in the penitentiary.
Such law would uproot the evil.
while one that merely prohibits "a
brute" from being brute lops off only
one Of the twigs.
The Free Press article, however, is q
specimen Of the slap bang style of
editorial cxaggeration which does not
weigh statements nor assess words at
their true value.
There could be no law ito take the
exclusive right away from parent"
etc, nor is it possible for "a brute" to
usurp such u prerogative,
This whole cutlery, therefore, against
degree of education and culture to be
tutors, is itself an ebulition of beastli-
ness somewhat patent with weak head
ed people and fashionable with shallow
newspapers.
For few hours during the day the
teacher takes the place of the parent.
In doing so he UNDERSTANDS responl-
bility which he either loves or hates
which, it will not take long to find out
If he turns out to be "a BRUTE" the
remedy is clear. Hold the authorities
responsible for his retention.
If he turns out to be good deputy
for the parent, he is entitled to tn,
respect due a parent-from both pupils
and the public.
If he does not get that respect from
the pupils he must enforce it by the
last recourse, If neces >ary-the parent S
final resort, a constitutional thrashing
If the public does not yield him thai
respect, then the schoolhouse Is sur
rounded by ''brutes."
The teacher is the real hero of this
age.
He is the pioneer whose work is ever
fresh and nnerous.
He is the soldier eyer climbing and
overcoming the battlements OF orig
inal sin"
He is the sage constantly pointing
with pride to the benefciaries of his
labor and patience and the Iegatees of
his enlightenment.
He is father who, forgetting not
his children, dies aforementioned al
last--a Mentor through all his life
almost a Stephen at his death.
His is task thankless at its best ;
his earnings scant, are always overdue
and begrudged at last.
He is the christian whose environ
ment enforces humility; whose piety
is compulsory, and for whom, and all
such as he, there must be heaven
beyond the illimitabe skv.