Show all remember tun THE EsQUiBE Ea war last spring on school fads oar public schools were becoming M so exacting in this ibis city that little boys b and girls eirls had to make two trips in borne some instances to vack their books to and from the schoolroom school room rev key dr TAL waar preached a sermon on this mode of education sunday before last from which we deem it wise to quote a few extracts I 1 in the first place I 1 remark that bat much of the system a y stem of education in our day is is a system ot of sacrifice when children spend six or seven hours hoara a day in school and then must spend two or three haars hoars h coursin in preparation aaion I 1 r school the tha next nest day will you yon tell me how much time they will have for sunshine h and fresh air and the obtaining of that exuberance exuDe rance which is necessary for tle the duties of coming life 7 in connection with this I 1 mention what 1 I call the cramming system of the common schools and many of the acad academics aca demice emlea children of delicate brain compelled to nasr that might appall a mature intellect int eLect children going comedown down to school with a strap of books half as high as themselves the fact is ia in some of the cities parents do not allow their children to graduate for the r simple cimpl reason they saya 1 we cannot afford to allow our chil childrens drena health to be destroyed in order that they may gather tho the honora of an institution tins tena of thousands thoa sands of children aduca educated led into imbecility gg many tn a ny C sh alti kitei ary establishments th there 1 aiu oa to be asylums tar lor the wrecked itis push and crowd and cram and at u ff and jam until the childs antell intellect octja iff bewildered and the memory is wrecked and the health is ia zone gone there thereal ar chil children drou turned out from the schools who once were full of romping and laughter and nad cheeks crimson with health beal tzi who are now cow turned out in the afternoon palo pale faced irritated asthma tic old before their tine ti ne it is one of the tha caddest sights eights on earth is so ao old idanish boy or an old womanish girt girl girls ten years of ago age studying alsira I 1 boys twelve years year of age aga racking jacking their bra braica over oter trigonometry 1 I child ren una unacquainted with the their I 1 I 1 r mother tongue crying over their latin french and german lessons I 1 all vivacity of their nature beaten out oat of them by C the heavy hb beella w 0 a greet greek lexicon and you doctor them ter for this aud and arru give the them III IL a little medicine for that aid d von voll wonder what is ig tte matter kith with them I 1 will tell you yon what is ia the matter r with them they are finishing their education in my parish pariah in Philadel philadelphia ibia a little child was BO pushed at that ebe was wag thrown into a fever and in ter ler dying delirium all night long she ehe was trying to recite the mulLi tian table in my boyhood I 1 r demember em ember that is in our class at school there was ono one lad who knew more than all of us na put pat together if we were fast in our arith he extricated us cs when we stood up for spelling classi class he was almost always the head of the class visitors came to his lathers house and he was almoas always brought in as a prodigy at eighteen years of age be was an idiot he lived ten years rears an adot and died an idiot not knowing kno winZ his right hand fram his left or day dav from night the parents and the tha teachers made him an idiot |