The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1906-01-19
Yours, etc,
w. NJ. HOLIDAY.
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.
An Appeal for Better Schools for Our
Children.


Children
The most intensely important mat
ter that can engage our attention is
the proper training Of our children for
life, life here and hereafter
Free trade, good roads, better prices
for farm products, the trusts, r. r.
regulation, &c.-all Of these are subor-
dinate to good schools.
There are four great institutions for
the making Of men and the better
ment Of the human race:
l.. First and foremost is the home
husband, wife and children. The
home is the foundation Of all else
Here the child is born, here he is taken
care Of in his helpless infancy, here
first and most lasting impressions are
made upon HIM, here IS given a large
part Of his training, and here largely
his character is formed and his des-
tiny decided.
>. The second institution is the
church. This also Of Divine origin
and Of incalculable influence i'm form !
ing character and moulding society |
The church, thro' the Sunday School |
especially, is meant to aid, to supple |
ment the work of the home and not /
to supplant it.
3. a third institution is the State.
This aso found helpful if not neces
sary for the preservation Of society
and the best development Of the indi-
vidual. Law and order, the right Of
property and life are necessary to any
true civilization.
1. The fourth institution for the
betterment Of mankink and especially
for the training Of the young, is the
school. And while the school is not
as fundamental as the home nor as
prominent i'm adult life as the affairs
Of church and State; yet, the school
and the work it stands for-the train
ing Of head, hand and heart-perme-
ates them all
The home yields its highest power
as 1t partakes of the nature Of the
school, and as it uses the school to
It's own teaching
The church is entirely dependent on q
the schools for its educated ministry
and its intelligent members.
Without the school the church
would degenerate into dead Journalism |,
Or superstitious yitualism.
And the State it has found is own
welfare and stability and progress so
dependent upon the school that it has
and maintained public /
schools for lis own good. For the
state cannot succeed without trained
md worthy citizens. p
The public school then is not Il
.harity, like the poor house, but
wise policy Of the State for its own %
ecurity and prosperity. The State %
inds that il pays to have intelligent
md competent and trustworthy citi-
ems, that its own existence and pros
.erity depends upon having such citi-
ems; hence it wisely spends its money ,
RELY on the education of the child "
en-. y,
\ most important and practical
uestion then for al who have the q,
'efare Of the home the church and
he State at heart isl: What can do
n the betterment Of the public
chOOls?
1t is this question that I shall at
smpt TO answer i'm series of articles .,
] this column Of the Herald
And next week we shall ask as our ~
rst question in this series What
I'D the parent do for the school2 81,
hope the parents who read this >,
rticle may keep this question before -,
ieir minds during the week, and an T.,
yer it for themselves; so that they "
IN intelligently judge whether the -
lswer / shall give next week will be ~
true and adequate one.
J. II. DAVIS, Supt. ~