Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1902-10-03
EDUoAmoyAL.

ton to the people of this parish.
Cost IN money is not the meas
IRE of value. Can we estimate |
the value to our physical beings
" the oxygen which each moment |
we draw unconsciously into our
lungs2 How little it costs, and
yet how necessary it is to our ex-
istence, aud to-day how absolute
ly essential to our success III life
is an education.
In the early ages the price of an
education was so great that only
wealthy men and the SONS of kings
were fortunate enough to secure
what was even then considered to
be Of great value, but as time
passed on, and men grew wiser,
the cost gradually decreased,
while, strange to relate, the value
was UNNECESSARILY increased. In
our own enlightened time it has
become the study of educators and
philanthropists to so minimize the
expenses of an education as to
bring it within the reach of every
person. The State, in recognition
of the fact that the strength and
future greatness of this Republic
depends upon the preparation of
her citizens, has established
university aud numerous indus
trial colleges, and has provided
free instruction therein. Parish
Superintendents are also at work
to increase the efficiency Of the
schools intrusted to their care.
The Superintendent of Educa-
ton in this parish, and others
who have the welfare os the par
fish sincerely at heart, have de-
veloped a plan by which, should
it meet the approval of the peo-
lple, educational facilities will be
Fgreatly increased and the at
tendant expenses carrespondipgly
diminished.
The plan involves she systema-
ttizing of the public schools, aud
briefly stated, is as follows:
The larger schools, Waterproof
| L'Argent, New Light, Newellton
land st. Joseph, will be graded ac-
cording to uniform standard,-
the grade one corresponding to the
same grade of every other, using
the same textbooks, and accom-.
lplishing the same amount of work
AT ST. Joseph there will be es.
tablIshed a high school, which
will articulate with the graded
schools on the one hand and will
the State University on the other
The advantages attendant upon
lsuch a system are evident, ont
Iof the most important being the
ECONOMY of time and money. A
fchange of teachers with the sys
tenn heretofore prevailing Away
entailed set-backs, which, will
the endless repetitions now il
vogue tend to discourage the chile
. and prevent a rapid forward pro
/ gress. With the graded system
however, the movement forwart
is steady and sure, the child ad
vancing grade by grade towarc
! fthe completion of the gramma
school, uninfiuenced by any cir
, cumstances save his own inabilit,
or decided disinclination t.
study. The grammar schools sug
, gested would be composed of 81
grades, which, if a child enters a
the age of six, will prepare hir
for the high school at the age @
+, twelve. The transfer from gram
mar school to high school will b
(, accomplished without loss of tim
n and at small expense. Four yeaI
{ lof High School course would pre-
: pare the pupil for the Sophmor
!, Tor perhaps the Junior class a
i a university or college, bringin
lgraduation therein at the age {
q eighteen or nineteen, if there wei
6 no unlocked for checks.
The economy in money Is ev
Edent. To those who do not col
. template a college education,
!, Twill mean thorough preparatio
u for business at a merely nomin'
= cost, while the college" men an
will be saved the expen'
:. of one or possibly two years of Il
: college course. :.
20 There are other facts enterii
D. into the consideration of the
% plans that are worthy of not
% No such system of education is
vogue in any Of the neighbour
= parishes, nor is there a Hi
School nearer than Natchez
q Tallulah, The result will be
t, draw attention to this paris
,e thereby attracting immigrants
no and increasing the value of pro
erty. Another result would
u that this High School would
rs patronized by the citizens of OF
3. err parishes, and i'll this way Tie
8 Esas will become the center of
ucational and commercial act
M ity for this section. This, wi
r. agricultural resources unsurpass
lis by any ether parish, will SO