The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-03-02
Thursday, March =, 1898.
written for the posr.
Our Children and the Schools

lrSt blNt lll' ilt lllNi Ten years VI u
mt child's life, aud you may have the
ol o' remainder" is what the greatest hu-
WV man teacher and educator the world
H., ever produced said and wrote. BY
ra,i, this he meant. that if n child were
-oad under his care and tutclage for the
EN- period of it's first ten years, that no
ontr one or set of tutors. after that time,
es ar could undo or change materially the
ha impressions which he had made upon
iIe and in that chid's mind and heart,
=" no matter what the ability and quail
ain, II .,'ioLS ;,ht " '"1T 'uos'iuo1t 'e%,n
b he said, and the assertion challenges
successful contradiction to-day, and
AS, ever will stand finn as long as men
the are human. Every true educator in
III the land understands the philosophy
DIS OF this proposition, and never quos-
Jonb tions its soundness fora moment
.uin for to such it comes with the force
tmo and authority of an aXiom-a self
nitteC evident tIuth' IN infancy ana early
lin childhood, j. e., from birth, if you
pro please, ON up to ten or twelve years.
pre- the mind and heart are susceptible
ut. OF the slightest IMPRESSIONS because
:" the faculty OF observation is in its
most active state and rules supreme.
=, The mind of child from its oirth
aie can, without struulng any figures of
y speech, be very properly compared
81 to u blank sheet OF writing paper.
re- Every minute, every hour, every
day, every week. month and year,
ot some visible or invisible hand is
aus most arduously at wori, writing with
tn un indehble pen upon this tablet OF
pc the Inlnd characters which, If i'm
ia pressed IN consonnnco with the puD-
n 'pies OF true education on the siuo
az lue God, the True and the Beau
!" ~ htuL will glow forth in magniicencc
,0o. hia apples OF gold in pictures of sill
,l,ooti. rr,Ny W rsso2N9p the other hand the i'm
,stroyee by fire. loss sJ0oo0ade upon TINS white
n are tn -owu Il emp.oymc'i' ''- pgrayed by am
,,,&,-t .,Iiuo 100 Isl tano..-. s,-. yliOse i- uiug
ork OF -uudads Deensshameiully lop-sidcd and
by Re f.rn hose sentiments and principles are
o gown valued sed upon foundation OF policy
PeoP'. ''' ly, the wards who are under his
re and teaching must of very ne
-tcrs, .eid"",sslty deyelopinto mere intellectual
IN r'''' warts, and be recognizaut ol moth
az hlgher on noDlor mmau than the
ror,o e r iu7.s "l llt I.-N' and whose bodies
the Farc eA0 minds mus, inevitably meet the
used by Il tate ol the foolish man who built his
e tender, mousse upon the -and To bear out
'kemah more completely 'he comparison oi
L Jhe HlHu D." Tine sheet ol r1pc, li
,wesinn VIII DO observed that when we write
rOro nore Srov Win lnN upon Nl.r slice. of pa
.,,..u per 'Ae traces oil the pen Ad ink
Pacific ne can never be wholly erased, and our
/. l3-year.c pesV enu'n'"ts 10 90 so VIII De SIM
md about ply III VAIN We may succeed IN
Reilly, p"''' p"' tle N's'lse VIII always re-
works e ili",l 'I''I ""' most s'nEulhe tl-
10 u'A'" - 'U"Itu9 Ic'oiS'L L"''Ioh' ana III
as wy "' llop"oi'l'S' lHI'eu' we are "i'o'
.oIan s'i 'r"'' ~ I'"' 'u'o INC HroSs'i
eiioI - ,','"'"F PH'!h'r' inc iaul''
"'a" "pa, "n''n' ou' our pains' would have
roni''i''" col'p'oillSlhSly blurred
or loaT ny Per, ,,,,;,.l - ....,,
" w., :, ,',,i''' ''I, ,''i','''il'
,bt also ro,,. ,;',tS ,',',''oo' can
gtor - t %'il 10y &c 'o'i'''feo