| Show public schools many of 0 the excellent that have been taught in this city during the winter have closed or are about to close as most if not all the teachers of the ward or district t schools were hired by the quarte teras rasit it is termed and at the end of the time for which they engaged to teach their schools severally are discontinued how many of those who have thus rendered efficient service as school teachers this winter intend or can be induced to continue their labors in this behalf through the spring and summer mer we do not know but judging 0 from the past there are reasons for believing that a majority of them will betake themselves to other employments more lucrative or more in consonance with their natural inclinations than the occupation of a pedagogue though there is certainly no employment more honorable than teaching the young or the old the principles of science and storing 11 their mind minds with useful knowledge that will ever be a treasure to the possessor through all the vicissitudes of life some if not many of the young 0 men who have been attending school or have been acquiring illg knowledge by other means during the winter will unquestionably soon boon have to turn their attention to their respective pursuits to farming to mechanical or some bome other useful employment in order to obtain a livelihood but if they make a proper use of their time as it is to be hoped they will what they may have learned will be retained and daily accessions made thereto in various ways without neglecting t any duty or labor they may have to perform many diany things can be learned and much valuable information obtained obtain od by study and observation without any infringement upon the time that may have to be devoted to labor by those in search of knowledge knowledg me without expense and the appropriation of the odds and ends of time to that object has a great tendency to sweeten the tolls toils of life and to make the duties thereof a pleasure instead of a burden as many consider it who have to earn their bread by the labor of heir their hands so far as our knowledge extends in those wards or districts where the winter schools have ended or are about to close arrangements are belll beill being c made to have others commenced after a short vacation if not with the same teachers that have been employed through the winter with others perhaps equally competent but the change 0 of instructors every three months is not attended with that success that would result if they were employed by the year or a longer t term if any are sceptical on that point let them make the experiment and they will be convinced that a scholar will make greater advancement under the guidance and instruction of a constant preceptor than when a change is made in that respect three or four tour times in the course of one year these suggestions are made with a full knowledg knowledge 0 e of the difficulties that attend school 1 teaching in this and all other new countries boutwe but we trust that those difficulties will be removed one after another anotoli er till none will exist to I 1 impede in ped e the progress of science in this territory and that the spirit of improvement in respect to the education of the rising 0 generation that has to a goodly degree been awakened of late will not slumber again till what is necessary to the attainment of the desired object is effected |
