The Forrest City times., 1904-12-02
Is This Right.


 1 1thas been said by a noted authoress wb, l oy extensive travels has been in touch with .he daIy customs of nearly every nation on earth that the children of thcI nitedStates ar, the most irreserent and disreepeetfnl of all that she.as student of huIs.an ethics has yet i carefully examined. Aftera close analysis oi l this glaring deiects in American children she l uhhesliatIngly declares that it is the result oi detieincy in home training brought about i nearly exclusively by the mothers An edu. 1 eator oi large experience. in tteating of edu. cation according to the laws of psvcol ogy. 1 notices the same defect in the children of on | country andeonelgdes from a scientific stand. point that the present systems of education with all of therhoasted progress an d advan,. ages are.tar from elfecting results proportion. al to the energy expended. and that on all lines there must be q revolution the great est of which will be among the parents them i selves. That the defects andyiews refe rred 10 1 are not confined 10 some particular locality or class of persons is unfortunate Eveu Forrest City has it's full quota.
 It Is on educational lines that the writer wishes 10 speak. It seems from one sinister cause that children everywhere In this country regard the counsel CT advice of their superors as an encroachment upon their iu- diyiduality an atfront 10 their proeivit!es | and are so intensely conscious of self that there are no rights or reverences to be accord. de toanyone al home or elsewhere but that all due consideration must be extended to them not only in theh Opposition to matters for their own good. but even in their acts of the most doubtful propriety The kindly counsel of thpS l,n children is often, met by impudence, pro. faulty. blaokguard or billingsgate. than re spectful attention or acquiessene from many.
 The saddest fact of all is the that even the school room is invaded by full developed spirit of antagonism and irreverence. The place itself seems to be considered as a kind of prison over which presides petty tyraut in the guise ofa teacher whose every effort must be opposed, criticised. and rideuled These manifestations are the fruits of an i'm. proper and vicious growth somwhere and are keenly observed by nearly all teachers In the broad scope of the writers aequaiu- tanee with teachers there is not one but what labors for the wellbeing of the children un. der their charge. Why this broad gulf be. tween the home and the school room? IL is a fact that teachers are in a position to know more of children than their parents them- selves. In the home government children are known only in thief co-relatiens as a family, Tn the schoolroon, as citizens of miniature com mmonwealth. The latter gives opportuni- ty 10 know the virtues as well as the vices of home training to discover the propensi. ties ot euch child to lead or be led into for bidden paths, and it not infrequently hap pens that the teacher has to abandon for u while the office of instructor and descend to police duty in regulating vicious conduct and conversation. all ot which ought to be eimi- mated from children elsewhere. It is indeed painful 10 us who have children at school to learn that they are becoming imbued with vicious ideas and guilty of unbecoming con duct yet we should know that we must deal directly with our own, asd that no words spoken disrespectfully of the teacher, the school or its surroundings. will correct any tendency to wrong on the part of our own children.
 The vices of children are better known to their teachers than to anyone else save those that are abettors with them. Even the slight est inclination to override law and order. 10 the most fragrant deeds of misconduct are quickly and unerringly deserted. With boys that show anything less than chivarous courtesy toward girls with girls that de port themselves with less than queenly grace toward boys. there is d fault that may lead to broken hearts and saddened lives. God pity the mother who has boy that cannot see, through her. traits in the female character that will demand from him at all times and under all circumstances the purest thoughts and the most chiyalrous consideration.
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