Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-06-09
room Il IL boy o. ssiri Who answered.

nv hnuutts OF the OLD Dnlidine
have long been scattered the children
with whom you played and quarrelled
are no more But have you forgot
ten them7 In memory the pupils OF
other days are children still Your
favorite playmate is still dear to you.
With II smile and sigh you think OF
those far away times-the scrapes you
fell into the pranks you played on a
long'suffering teacher: the whippings
YOU received when caught In the act
Do We forget those things?
But IT is not with your childhood OF
mine ! would have you linger. A past
far more dim and distant a childhood
so far away as to be shrouded In myth
and mystery. attracts MS now
The school days OF the people who
lived when the world was young. we
may only conjecture-we have no his
tory 80 ancient. II seems reasonable
10 suppose that the citizens of the
Garden of Eden felt no need OF schools
or of the higher education. At any
rate no mention is made Of the sub
leci. A life barren Of these educa-
tional facilities would seem to us as
little better than the vegetables. In
which that famous garden abounded
that' however. Is but one side OF the
story. If Adam and Eve could visit
"ur schools todav. thev would doubt
'ess consider some OF the things we
decidedly queer. others foolish and
very fatiguing.
Thence we pass TO the land of the
where the mvsterions
'nhinN keeps unbroken watch and the
NJ" waters flow through sandy des.
arts aud brown rice fields to The NedI.
'erranean. More than 1000 years be
'or" Christ was born Ecvpt nourished
SO fnr are 'hcv away from lis that of
'h"Sr mighty builders the architects s
~ the pyramids. no trace remains.
only their works do follow them
Th"re on the walls OF the pyramids
N" destined tombs Of the ROYAL Phar.
9ohs these Egyptians carved md
wrote the history Of their civilization
'or then unborn aFcs to read
TODAY. our little MarIes and John.
Hi"s have practically equal advantages
)" an educational line, Our schools
are prbllc-onen alike to rich and
moor. Had Johnnie lived in Egvpt M
IN" time above mentioned unless he
hanp"ned 10 he prince or of prIestly
birth. he would have had little opnor
'nnitV TO obtain an education while
Wary would have had none Mt all
The school davs Of the little Har.
pfnghia fpr Ii
very different from anv YOU or 7 NAV
imagine. His schoolroom was prob.
Hhlv In palace or In the temple
whose marble floors and plllared re
"nsses were always cool In spite ot
/ nc hurning sun Outside. n cloud
loss skv looked down on the barren
desert and the fertile rice fields
within the lap.lap Of the Nile waters
m whose nulot surface the brilliant
lotus flower bloomed called softly tc
III" small student. Come and plav
~omc and plav"
with Chaldea and Assvria we ma,
I 0ot linger though thev In turn paif
'h"ir contribution 10 civilization In
| stcad Of parchment the AssvrIar
wrote upon tablets of clav with ,
eharp steel instrument afterward call
cd stvlms. With the BabvlonIani
these tablets were cylindrical In form
and were carefully baked for preser
vn'ior Education was not vet To-
che common neople although It /,
"ecorded Of one OF the Assvrian king,
that he encouraged his subjects II
learning To read and write II ls ais,
stated that he established publ,
lihrnry for their further benefit
Among the Hladoos. the rigidity o
the caste system kept educational ad
vanVantages within the province o
the few Thus far in the worlds his
tory no little red school house has We
appeared The district school witt
which We are so familiar is still lont
Years away
To Greece and Rome the world,
debt Is heavy. The one gave us art
the other. law.
In Greece we find both physical ant
intellectual development demanded o
Its citizens Beauty OF body ant
mind was striven for industriouslv
The daily life of the Greek either
was In itself discipline In libera
l culture
Where such life existed. school,
would abound These were of all de
scriptions, The sight OF Socrate,
moor, ugly but .wondrous wise. walk
/ Ing in the quiet groves of Athens. sur
rounded by his pupils. to whom h'
eXrounded his system of philosophy
was familiar to the Athenians But be
tween the schools OF the philosophers
and those Of the poorer kind (held II
/ a doorway or on corner of tn,
street, there was vast difference
| Music and oratory composed th'
greater part of the program in tn,
I Athenian schools. for the Greeks were
n nation of public speakers Equa
attention was paid to the symmetrical
development OF the body History
has pictured for MS Athens-the white
walled washed bv the restless waves
OF the blue Aegean sea. On the Acrop
/ oils, that tempted hill marble pillars
CLEAN amid the sacred groves Will,
/ far above all the majestic figure o.
l Pallas Athcnae keeps watch over hel
beloved city-her hrazen shield gilt
tcring In the sun.
Greece gave us much. but the prin
,tp1a F,,s ,YbI,h tho IIttIa rod cpbpo