Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-02-23

! HI SUI uINlN Si'll''pl IlhN W a'itli i'llaN
is embodied in less than thirty pages.
comprising Article - OF the Code OF
Public General Laws.
The Constitution of 1861, III" present
instrument. in three sections Of Article
VII. provides for the establishment
throughout the State OF a thorough and
efficient system Of Free Public schools,
and for the support thereof by taxation
or otherwise, requiring that the funds So
raised shall be kept inyi"late and APP
piled only to the purposes Of education.
These provisions, together with such
additions, Icvlsions and notifications a.
the LEGISLATURE has from time to time
deemed it eXpcdiout to make, and the
rules, regulations and bylaws made and
adopted III pursuance OF such Legislative
enactmcntS by Che State Board OF LIUCa-
ton and the various Boards Of County
School Commissioners, constitute tn'
whole body Of our statute law regulating
educational matters. This Is easily ac-
ceSsibc to all, and. like all other law,
every citizen is presumed to know II,
however violent such presumption may
seem.
To tcachc,, and school officer, general
" il Ii OF course cssentia} that this Should
be true i'll fact rs well Is III theory, for
there could b" no successful execution IF
its provisions without such knowledge.
BY the terms Of this Article all mat
tcrs educational affecting the state, to-
gcther with the general care and super
vision Of public education in the State,
are entrusted to a state Board OF EIu"a-
ton; those affecting a county are placed
under the control OF a Board Of County
School Commissioners, and those rriat-
ing to school district are given over to
the supervision Of a Board Of District
School Trustees.
While none Of these offices carry with
them large emOlumrutS, all have their
responsibilities.
Most OF the provisions Of these laws.
rules aud regulations are SO clear
and 50 plain that they need no in
terpretanou. He who runs may read
and understand. 1t is necessary only to
apply to the examiner t0r 4 copy Of tiic
pamphlet issued 10y every school
board. and to give Il little study 10 it IN
order to become entirely familiar with
them. Your own interest demands this,
and your duty requires it.
But school law is nos lll of statutory
origin. We must not hastily conclude,
when we shall have mastered the pro
NlSltiIo Oh tN PRESS 'Ii|(' iii'IIlN. tidt We
know the whole Of the suhl"c, thHt rur
duty to- the State and the work III which
we are engaged require us 10 know.
There is yet Il wider field. Here. as III
all things else, WhatcEc. heights We may
attain, we iiud that there Is an "ilst!nity
Of things bcyOnd.'
There Is an mWIi,t"u law, = common
law, pertaining to the high Ot1c" which
yOu hold.
This branch Of "schOol law does not
rest fOr its authority upon any express
and positive declaration of the legisld-
tive will. 1t was not made by boards of
education. In II SENSE its beginnings are
older than the pyramids, and the ancient
peoples of Egypt, Greece and Rome have
been under its dominion. Mans under
standing Of this law has varied with his
Intelligence and his SURROUNDINGS. bat
the principles underlying it arc not sub
iect TO change. They are the same
'.yesterdav, to-day and fUrcVer.' for
they spnrg from that -till more uni
yersal law OF which Richard Hooker
Wrotc-.fIer seat is the bosom Of God :;
her voice the harmony of the world"
That it is or duty TO acquire and to
onnIy some ku0w!rd2rr of Ills law need
nor be stated. At the risk OF Incoming
charpealIe with DEPRESSION | SHAH briefly
refer to some features of il that NAV
prove useful in dealing with questions
certain TO arise in the expcricncp of every
teacher
If is not my uurposr TO formulate
theories Of school Government, to discuss