El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-30
The Ell PaSo Public School Exhibit:

| land. Some are very good, short
practical accounts of the land. lite GOV
eminent, its products and industries
others have take n some facts to hear
and forgot others. One child for ex
ample had evidently been told thx
am Ong the i'm port IL Mt products OF Me <
| ice are the tropical fruits but he
writes:
"The productions of Mexico are
and also puique. In Mexico pulque
is used as bear is in the Uaited States. ,
The G. ntrel school presents big
map of Texas, the work of Heller
Austin. The map 10 an illustrated one
having she capitol building aud uni
versity shown at Austin, the Alamo ri
San Antonio. the pine forests along the
coast, wheat sheaves in the n6rtheas t.
ern part and in the Panhandle STOCK
and miners in the southwest and ships
at Galveston. An int lligent and
u young Texan. There are stories OF
Texas written neatly and illustrated
with fage. The drawings from the
Central school would compare favor
ably with an art schools work. Some
of the drawings in the exhibits sho ~
actual geniue, as Roy Browns war
ship and locomotives, in which he
SHOWS remarkable tAlent.
The high school work elbows develop
ment alony all the various lines, and
the exhibits, especially of art work, are
most Interesting.
There are far too many interesting
phases of the school work to emu merate.
There are leaves from Natures book,
pressed and Vanished leaves from the
poplar, the locust, the China tree, lilac
bush, and beside each one faithful
drawing showing that the ccholar has
noted the shape OF the leaves, their
veinings and the character OF the edges.
It Is . wonderful study.
People in general do not realize how
much excellent work is done by the
public schools, how esrnett are many
OF the teachers In their interest in the
scholars, aud how much pride they take
in making the standard Of the school
high.
The perfect confidence tia. the par
ents place In the pu bile schools, which
lets them send their children OF to
school day after day and year after
year. with never a trim to see what the
schools are like, how they are being
what the bad, is not misplaced con-
6dence. The teacher are, oftener than
not, hardworking and sincere, bu.
they have to do more than their share
Of work. Parents ought to cooperate
with the teachers and not let them
carry the whole burden of the develop
ment of the child.
II parents would only 60 to the
schools once or twice a year and talk
with the teachers and talk with their
children, the new maps and globes,
plants aud pictures, and other peces-
;ary accommod ations and parapherns-
ia would not be so difficult to get, and
;he schools would make great leaps of
progress. Parents are as q rule entirely
Indifferent to the welfare end the needs
Of the schools. AS q matter of fact
In earnest, sincere and Intelligent
,eacher has so work too hard, for be-
sides her work as teacher she has to
com bat the apathy of city to bring
about any progress, no matter how
good and necessary it may be.
Ell Paso has reason to be proud OF
her school work, and every citizen,
whether a parent or not, ought to
make it a point to visit the splendid
Ichool exhibit in the chamber of COM
nerce building, next to the HERALD
,ffice, in the early dsys of next week,
or 1t will soon be removed.