The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-04-20
EDUCATIONAL
Department Devoted to the
Teachers of Cobb.
THE NEW EDUCATION TO Be TAUGHT,
Some Complimentary Remarks Be.
slowed Upon the Teachers of the
County Schools.

Prof. Fessenden, of Austell public
schools, has had successful career.
He has always given satisfaction
where he has taught. He is good
scholar, a graduate of Harvard.
Austell was the first town in the
county to organize local system.
Roswell inaugurated similar sys>
tenn this spring under the manage
ment Of Prof. Little. Prot. Little
is a graduate of the Peabody Normal
College at Nashville.
Prof. Pierce, a graduate of Emory,
has fourishing school at Delmar.
He has proven himself a teacher.
IT rumors be true he will assume
more responsible position next year.
Prof. Mable, of Middleton, is one
of the strongest teachers in the
county. He has had years of ex-
perience, and has continued to grow
Under the management of Prof.
McElreath, Powder Springs is said
to have the most successful school
in her history. Mr.. MeElreath is a
graduate of Washington and Lee
University. 1t is hoped Powder
Springs will recognize his ability
and keep him.
Prof. Deavours, a graduate of
Emory, has large school at Smyrna.
{ He has been teaching number OF
years in Cherokee county. The
: Smyrna people are rallying to his
> support and he deserves it.
Y The pupil OF the 'Enew education
a is given the very minimum OF in.
formation and the maximum OF ex.
perience. He learns science by
original investigation, to which con-
, tinuity is added by the guidance Of
the teacher. He learns literature
less by reading reviews than by
l direct study of the authors them
selves. He becomes strong by The
daily exercise of strength, rather
than reading about the training of
athletics. He becomes through be-
ing, an1 he learns by doing. 1t is
all lite-frst the life of Potentially,
which is all we have to begin with !;
then the cropping life OF inquiry and
experience, and finally the masters
full life of conscious knowledge.
Having this in view, the teacher of
the "new education" realizes her
function, which is naught but to
lead her children in their natural
progress from life, through life, to
life Her work is not to fit the
child for some prescribed place as
one would shape stone for Ger.
tain part ofa wall. The "new edu-
cation" is not caste education, nor
ancestral education, nor the So
called practical education. 1t is
not one sided, abnormal educa.
ton, but it is intense living with all
that life implies.
The art of education is the art of
arts. To train up child in the way
he should go and do and be in all
the relations of life involves not
only q nowledge of subjects and
affairs, knowledge of laws and
principles, and skill in their appli-
cation, but more yet. 1t requires
that indescribable spiritual insight
in the very nature of human spirit.
The young man or woman who
chooses for a life calling the awaken
ing of divine human souls, and the
leading of them to fulfill their high
est life-destiny should know the
nature of the being intrusted to his
care, and the essential conditions
for its fullest, best development.
He should read Pestalozzi, Froebel.
Christ and become as little child
in his study Of child life and growth.
Jacob Abbott in one of his books
gives tour wise rules for the govern.
ment of children
/. When you refuse, refuse finally