Show see to your schools schoola or DESERET NEWS sis SIB th the alore alove was waa the heading to an ar ticie in the deseret NEWS of the ul tand it waa was w with much pleasure I 1 read your remarks upon the important subject of education lour strictures were of the right kind but I 1 believe the subject will bear some come further comment in the commencement of your observations you urge upon erthe elthe the trustees or directors of schools to look to their school houses and to seq see ee that they are properly fitted up and that they have fuel sufficient for the season and above all to have suitable teachers engaged before it is too late 21 etc these are four 0 r very important items certainly in the establishment of a school in any district and are ire so closely linked in the operations of a school that you cannot drop one of them without breaking the chain that school houses bouses should be properly fitted upil up is of more consequence to both teacher alad an d pupil than most people are aware of and unfortunately for both some ignorance prevails in the minds of trustees and conductors of p schools as to what is necessary in the gitt fitt fitting lip up of a school room for example the writer had the good fortune to be appointed 1 I last ymer winter to conduct one of the seminaries ies les fox for or the education of youth in this city but hehs hehm the misfortune to have a miserably arranged r aged school room the benches were of various lengths and heights the desks so high that it was with the utmost exertion the pupils Us u could reach their summits and pen a few iines lines h nes add and abdin in order to remedy this defect rocks were placed under the legs of the benches which being of a rocking nature a slight 0 os collation cil lation on the part of the pupils brought the whole down benches rocks and pupils pupil sto to the great merriment of the whole assembly not a peg to hang bang a cap or coat on not a kroom broom to sweep out the filth the windows were brokon broken and occasionally tho the wintry blasts would beat in upon us poor encouragement to teachers who have the ability and the willingness to devote their attention to the matter ot education that there should be sufficient fuel for the geason season is another very important ite mand one wh which irli is often overlooked overlook etl eil and in the above detrimental to the pro gless 3 of the scholars as a there was not sufficient to keep the room warm much of the time A suitable teacher in a school room mil wll fitted up and amply supplied with wood in inky may ty do much to th the advancement of his pupils but a teacher without these cannot accomplish much and ind labors with very little satisfaction to himself or his employers employer teachers properly qualified a aro are not often willing to undertake the ge duties of a school in this country cpu owing owl ng to the facts that the schools ois are arc often of short duration and the teachers are badly paid sometimes not at all which is an evil that should not exist in a community of saints what io individual is there who has any tal ent or ability in this respect that would devote his bis time for any lengthened pernod period under such discouragements it is about the last course aman of literary attainments would take to obtain a livelihood under the system that is now practised practiced perhaps you will ask can you suggest 0 any i pluement m pru ement I 1 can state aa and leave it to the to adolt or let alone last season I 1 had the pleasure plea piea sure aure oi oft instruct leg some of the danish children in this city and the plan they adopted was to levy a tax on all the male members of their families fa milie and a appoint one or two persons to same VP thi uhl ala all plan equalized the burden of aduca uon conand nand and injured no onel one ona but gave a poor man th the while e privilege lege of educating all his children while on the a system stem practised practiced generally lie he could amford ifford ON only to have one or two instructed in the first elements of education the abote plan is generally adopted in denmark and is ia very successful to the credit of the danes be it said they paid me punctually but I 1 cannot say so much of some others who sent their children to the school this much I 1 have said on the subject of ei ea vi cation catlon and probably may resume my remarks again when I 1 have opportunity yours respectfully AN EX ool tz |