The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1894-01-19
For the TINES.
Teaching Little Children.

Teaching Little children.
The story Of primary teaching has not ycl
been written: it is really an untold talc.
There are depths in it not yet sounded.
Philosophy has not concerned itself with
children to any great extent. The Galileans
who were annoyed that little children should
be around when there was ons there ready
to speak 10 9dulEr;-:yypifed Nc prevalent
thought of That day and of this. In discern
ing and replying TO that thought there is
recognition Of the fact hat the renovation of
the woTNt-Is to come through the children.
Discerning the Indifference of the adult
generation, il was an intuition not uttered
before that proper bringing up OF those
young beings then in their mothers arms
would make this world as God would have
il.
But how bring up children? Indeed
Is this not known to the human race? Did
not Solomon say, Bring up a child in the
way he should go?" But what is the way
he should GO? The world has striven to do
that very thing according 10 its best conccp
tions. 1t has felt there was meaning in the
words of Jesus, and has interpreted them in
various ways. Rousseau, n versatile French
man, in fact genius, that affected his age
profoundly, undertook TO study the child
and found the field an unirodlen one
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the literature concerning the child was, up
to his time. exceedingly meagpr in extent.
What there was, was mainly dldactic. 1t fol;
l0yed the track of the Jewish proverb- writer
aud pointed cut lnqt lie must be made to
=" early yuuih. FOrwardne5s must
minu '""rn his lessons and
be checked; he must 49,. -."-a
ask no questions. In fact, the lteia,..-
bearing OH the child is not only scanty, but
what there is displays pcssimistic spirit
and belief in an indwclllng evil disposition
that would most probably set at naught all
efforts for good that might he devised. The
belief in an inborn tendency to evil in the
child was conceived in the dusky past and
handed on from generation to generation.
A belief in the efficiency Of the rod to meet
these CIV tendencies, is probably quite rs
ancient 50 Tint solomon is not alone to be
charged with having turned the human race
aside from 4 thoughtful investigation of the
phenomena of child liic--sidct:ackiug it. as
it were. ~ all events, the human race was
sIc-tracked until the words were spoken
Let ne have little children: by My teaching
they will become such that this earth will
be as God intended il to he. They Will cheer
fully obey his laws. The philosophy of
the child was not yet ready to be written.
Nearly two thousand years went by.
Then. in France. some one was horn who
made the world think about the child. His
own thinking was ola very strange SORT: bul
it resulted i'll setting the great NcstalozM to
think and to teach. lie in turn was follow.
cd by his remarkable pupil, Troebcl, who
gave his whole life to an exhaustive study OF
means to develop CHILDHOOD.
We have now arrived at an era in which
the study of the child is felt to be important
The day of repression is over; the day Of
development has come. The belief that the
Creator implanted tendencies to evil in the
child is no longer held The question that
is asked is, what is meant by the possibility
asserted i'll the phrase, "Of such is King
dom of Heaven As the hum IN race com
lrcuet1}s- -tlhat il MI, value the primary
teacher and the primary school room. e Nnt
the primary teacher and the primary school
room they now are, bw as Msy 0rc Ia be.
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