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Show "Cheap" Education. The more generally that education lies within the reach of the masses, the better it ia for the welfare of tho country. Yet there 19 a kind of "cheap" educa- tion, arising from the employment of cheap talent in the school-room, , which is especially disastrous in its , effects on the minds of our youth. Aa a rule cheap rates of tuition are looked upon with distrust by the public, and 1 generally with reason, since, except . in the case of schools liberally endowed, en-dowed, they can oly result from the employment of poor teachers. An excellent authority on educational matters recently expressed himself on this subject in the following sensible and business-like manner: "Cheap wages muat reBult in cheap teachers; and eheao teachers will naturally cultivate cul-tivate cheap minds, which will fit the pupil for living a cheap life that is, not attaining to any occupation above a mediocre. Let the Buhject of cheap teachers be thoroughly discussed, and it will be found at once that the great majority of the educated minde of the country are not in favor of cheap educators." |