The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-16
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r. ,la proverb that sets forth that
.,a,n7rity breeds contempt never has so
tar-fcance 10 my mind as when
..,.s the debonnair and light hearted
in which parents regard the school
The very fact that the early
NJ child's life are the formative
,,at his character is like wax in the
..,.s hands, and every school must set
I.,ble mark upon him, makes it one
.sa most important questions OF life
..a father. with a happy sense that
NO responsibility in il beyond pay
,.s hills. leaves it all to the mother,
,as mother. who would scour the
, ,o md The latest thing in knicker-
,..s for Tommy, or a dressmaker who
owe a correct set to Mamie's skirt,
l.5,eat., of the opinion that there is
~. .65,ss in schools. and that any Old
un4 0ll do.
nuke fetch of education, yet there
..r,-s else under the sun to Whose
celebration We bring SO little common
and intelligence. The average child
.,.d INTO school at a certain age,
..,. there given number of years,
n. was serving a time sentence IN
...tsn, euuary, and when he is out We
H. le4ult education" God save the
r5.b- He may have spent the unie learn
..taU. he may be Total united for
.. he was bound TO live; it may
g... rriuation instead OF educa ton.
ar matter He has been kept at
and we have cOmpiacent conVlc-
+aat we have done our tuil duty.
o.., don't YOU make that big, strappng
III yalrs carry this heavy bundle Tor
a. say 10 my colored laundrcss.
.4 N.-s Do'thy," she returns, Il
,+'-'.r., ler Jim deamean hissef by toting
..... through de streets. ! done edu-
4lf how SIZE, he amt got time. lie
,5',.r' ON de base bail, and and with con
,... pride. he don't know nothin' bout
yo.k roway. Hes educated
Ofaourse. says Dorothy Dix in the New
dreams Picayune, no one will gainsay us
ti. d PARENTS duty to give his child
,r. host possible education. To put into
,a.ir hands not only the weapons with
..b they are to fight their battle OF
NJ. hui 20 give them those higher re-
a- which lifts him, who can truly
s,,. .trv mind to me kingdom is, above
t.a peuy accidents of fate and fortune
the ,r5uble IS that to do this seems TO
most PEOPLE so easy that they do not
CIV, sufficient thought Some line
-o.ring the father and mother awaken
m M, fact that Tommy and Mamie are
s.-rry 10 be big children. Goodness
s5.ols'- they say, lit is time they were
-rrtng their education. There's
-.rol, on the next block. How lucky!
and forthwith poor little Tommy ana Ma
r-ia ar, bundled off to it, and have one
MT
decided for them, without one thought
4gl~ having been given 10 what sort OF
school ii is whether it is going to meet
their needs or not, or whether they are to
bs under a teacher who has enthusiasm
and sympathy enough to kindle the treS
De choir soul, or whether she is a mere
teaching machine VINO grinds out learn
ing like a hand organ grinds out grand
o.rra with all the soul OF it dead and
You see. we make the fatal mistake OF
taking It for granted that anybody who
can answer certain per cent of ques-
tons in school examination is fitted to
teach. Never was a greater error. As
night we say that anybody who
could read "LocksIey Hall" and scan It's
es and diagram its sentences, could
EI.e II. Even more than poets teachers
ar. Nydveu-DOru not made if they are
worthy of their VOCATION and it is the
. pity there isn't some way TO
weed oHt the profession and retire all Of
ta, 3ry-as-dust pedagogues who are doing
everything they can to murder The love
10. knowledge in so many young breasts.
lt m be- set down as fact, with hardly
ar exception, that wherever child
hates school, and fails to be interested in
his stllI-s unless he is a dullard aud
-,o. it is the teachers fault She has
uo enthusiasm, no magnetism. Her work
o.es her, ana wearies the scholar. There
is nothing in her TO stimulate and in
slra If we have a cook whose soggy
Hada and greasy soup and watery veg
tau.cs Says our appettes and very first
glance at the table, we do not starVe on
year after year under her regime. We
send her off and get somebody else. Sure
~ Ne owe as much to our chidren's in
ieleetJa appetite. If their teacher can
nothing before them that makes them
"lnser for learning, and thirst for in
IyImauon be certain that she does no.
possess the first requisite of her calling
ana Keep changing schools until you find
Waa you need.
Another point upon which too much
STRESS cannot be laid is in parents trying
20 hnd out what a child can do and edu-
cate him along that line This is the
gay %, specialists. There is no place in
"e world for bungling amateurs with
su'l'rhg Of knowledge of what they
are trying to do The whole Of a lifetime
N non 100 long TO learn the craftsman
% OF any trade, YET we take no pains
no Hn' out what our boys are fitted for
~ say that we could save almost every
o"o the first five years of hard ana
''- 'dtt2ing work he has TO so through
De starts ont in life, it, from his very
i''od, ne had been grounded in the
comments of the calling he is to pursue
'-. we don't do it. We grind them all
.".-1 the same educational mill. ana
'aeN are grown they have to go back
'"piement their education by the real
Hon that teaches them how TO make
with girls there is more excuse.
-.r are the unknown quantity in the
.'' 10 of existence. No one knows what
"ih do. still less whom they will
r ana in the general uncertainty
.'r they viii need most TO know plan
or tine etiquette Of European
probably our potpourri style of ed
'a Is as good a. any other
". Is a Young Swiss woman. saws the
nv. io'N Times. who came to this city
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