The Cecil Whig., 1912-02-10

public schools are in great need of more
money, for the need or money greatly
hampers their efficiency.
For the lack of money the schools can
not be kept open the whole school year,
and the teachers generally receive al
most starvation wages.
If the State of Maryland has a mil
lion and a half of dollars to appropriate
for public education, then there is an
overwhelming demand that it shall be
appropriated to the shamefully underpaid
public school teachers.
There is not in this State or in the
world a more faithful or more useful
class Of public servants, than the public
school teachers. Next to the fathers and
the mothers there is no class of people
that do so much for the good Of the
world today, as the public school tea
cher.
Yet after life time spent in teaching
the children, and when they are worn
out they have not been able to save
enough to keep them from want in their
old age. This condition calls loudly for
some remedy.
If inquiry should be made 1t will be
found that the teachers at the Johns
Hopkins Univrsity receive enormous sal
aries and live most luxuriously
They travel all over the world, have
short hours and every comfort obtain
able, and very convenience that can be
procured, AID now the Legislature is ask
ed to take from the tax payers the money
of the people to build sumptuous dwell
ling for the Johns Hopkins University
professors, while the public school teach
ers are forced to live on almost starya-
ton salaries.
1t is said that If this appropriation is
made there will be established techni-
, cal department at the University for
/ special education.
What the world is most in need of and
suffering for, is not technical education,
but general common sense and practical
education. The great mass of the people
are not well educated.
That is, they have not a practical pri-
mary education. They can manage %
read, but it is very poor effort They
can write, but it is the poorest sort &C
writing Thy know vry little of our own
h:stofv, and know practically nothing of
grammar
TIL people of the State suffer from
lack of primary school education They
have not enough to do any sort of busi-
ness and are at the mercy of Others All
this talk about scientific and technical
education is the veriest rot when the
great bulk of public education is con-
s!dered. What is most needed is that
the public schools be strictly and rigidly
/ limited TO the teaching of the primary
education so that the children may get a
practical, common sense education to fit
, them for practical life. for not one in
ten thousand can or will ever get more
than that.
The tendency is to cram so much stuff
INTO the child's head that the result is
that the child learns nothing
There is so much attempted to be
taught that nothing is really learned
thoroughly.
The public schools can teach and teach
we'll. reading, writing, grammar, arith-
metir, spelling, geography and the his
ory of our country and to this our pub
!" schools should be limited for the
| children Will then get practical edu-
/ c9f:on 'or all practical business This
-urr'cu'um is strictly followed in France
""1 n" neoDle of Trance are said to be
! 40 NCs' "enerallr educated people in the
! ord The publjH schools can do much
'''' he" fail when they try 10 do too
! much Frederick Citi en-