Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-08-09

spend six or seven hours = day in
school. and then must spend two or
three hours in preparation for school
next day. viii YOU tell me how much
time they viii have for sunshine and
fresh air and the obtaining of TINT eN-
uberance which is necessary for ths du-
ties OF coming life?
No one can be more thankful than i
do for the advancement OF common
school education. The printing OF
books appropriate for schools, the null
tiplication of philosophical apparatus,
the establishment of normal schools,
which provide for our children Teachers
OF largest calibre, are themes upon
which every philanthropist ought TO be
congratulated. Bpa this herding OF
great multitudes Or children in ill-ven-
tilated school rooms and poorly
equipped halls Of instruction is. making
many OF the places Of knowledge in
this country huge holocaust
Politics in many OF the cities gets
Into educational affairs. and while the
two political parties are scrabbling for
the honors, Jephthah's daughter per-
iShes. It is so much so that there are
many schools in the country to-day
which are preparing tens OF thousands
OF invalid men and women for the fu-
ture; so that, in many places, by the
time the child's education is finished
the child is finished! In many places.
7 in many cities OF the country. there are
large appropriations for everything
else, and cheerful appropriations; but
as soon as the appropriation is 20 be
made for the educational or moral in
terests Of the city, we are struck
I }, ~.
nigh the death of us.
In connection with this / mention
/ what l might call the examining system
of the common schools and many of the
academies; children of delicate brain
compelled TO taslss that might appall a
mature intellect; children going down
I 10 school with a strap OF books half as
/ high as themselves The fact is. in
some OF the cities parents do not allow
/ their children 20 graduate. for the sim
! pie reason. they say I'VE can not af-
/ ford TO allow our children's health 20
! DC destroyed in order that they may
gather the honors of an institution. "
! Tens of thousands of children edu-
Gated into imbecility; So connected
with many such literary establishments
there ought to be asylums FOE the
/ wrecked.
/ II is push. and crowd. and push. and
stuff. and jam, until the child's intel
| lcct Is bewildcred, and the memory is
/ wrecked, and the health is gone
! There are children turned out from the
schools who once were full of romping
and laughter, and had checks crimson
with health. who are now turned out
I in the afternoon pale-faced, irritated,
asthmatic. old before their time. IL is
one of the saddest sights on earth an
old-mannish boy or an old-womanish
girl
Girls 10 years of age studying alge-
bra. Boys IL years OF age racling their
brain over trigonometrv! Children I'M
acquainted with their mother tongue
crying over their Latin French and
German lessons An the vivacity of
their nature beaten out of them by the
heavy beetle of n Greek leNiconi And
you doctor them for this, AID YOU give
them a little medicine for that,and you
wonder what il the matter with them.
i will tell you what is the matter with
them. They are finishing their educa-
ton.
In my parish in Philadelphia little
girl was so pushed At school that she
was thrown into fever, and in her dy-
ing dclirium,all night long, She was try
ing 70 recite the multiplication table. In
my boyhood ! remembered that in our
class at school there was one lad who
knew more than all of MS put together.
II we were fast in our arithmetic, he
eNtricated us. When we stood for the
spelling-class he was almost always
the head OF the class. Visitor came
TO his fathers house, and he was almost
always brought in as "A prodigy At
is years of age he was an idiot He
lived ten years an idiot, and died an
idiot. not knowing his right hand from
his left or day from night. The pa
rents and teachers made him an idiot
You may hatter your pride by fore
ing your children TO know more than
any other children, but YOU arc making
a sacrifice Of that child If by the addi-
tons 70 its intelligence Won are making
q subtraction from its future. The
child Will go away frc-l such maltreat-
ment with no eNuberaucc To fight the
battle Of life. Such children may get
along very well while YOU take care Of
them; but when YOU are old or dead
alas, for them H. through the wrong
system OF education you have adopted
they have no swarthincss or force of
character Co take care 81 themselves
BE careful how Won make the child's
head ache or It's bcart nuttcr hear ~
great deal about black mems rights.
and Chinamcn's rights. and Indians
rights and women's rights Would 90
God that somebody would rise to plead
Tor childrcn's rights
The Carthagenians used 90 sacrifice
their children by putting them into the
arms of am idol which thrust forth its
hand, the child was put into the arms
OF the idol. and no sooner touched the
arms than 10 dropped into the Ere But
30 WINS tha ART of the mothers 20 keep
the children smiling and laughing UNI
til the moment .hcy died There may
be O. fascination and hilaritg about
the styles of education % which am
speaking; but 90 is only laughter at the
moment of sacrifice Would To God
there were Only one Jephthah's duugh-
ter
Again There are many parents who
b are sacrificing their children with
wrong Systems OF discipline too great
, rigor Or Too great leniencv There are
children ip families who rule the house
hold They come to- the authority.