Show LITERARY LITERA AND E educational DUCA MATTERS it was DO no idle fable of the romans and greeks that all great eras eraa on earth were heralded by commotions in the aerial world poi portents tents and prodigies in the heavens gleaming squadrons of celestial com combatants combatant batan t a and all the chock ock and thunder rot of war var sar 1 literature it based on correct corre cit principles it if under the auspices 1 besof 0 the priesthood is the intellectual heaven ot of society and there high ija apin in its 16 where earths eartha poets ajha dwell the battle is fought and decided before nole practical tactical rac tidal m men en begin to brace min Win themselves solves tor for the ar all revolutions in thie the pal pai and social world ivorid are begun in the hietter region of the intellect telle telie ct the thought that penetrates the immensity of space and soar boar shigh up into those holy boly places that are marked with ue tie ti tle e circle deeter of eternity whoever a again ain aln looks upon ills hia vanished banished hours can perhaps per haps recal recai some bome so 1 me blighted I 1 moments emorse it not t years yearb and then a feeling of enorse 6 at a disregard of one of the mo cobus thing time will overcome him bux but b ll 11 k how la Is ne he whose life has liei beep a fearful blank blan k in relation to education aaion to console himself if the th fautt fault was his at it hil the t idea that of the years masted washed 0 ohl chi n trifles tunes ot in indolence a tew few aught have been saved caved and devoted to the cultivation of demind the tha mind 0 one oae e houra hour a day employed inma inta improve mai mentis is enough to make an ignorant man wisa wisp wise wisa in ten years to provide the lumur luxury of intelligence telli gence to a mind torpid from the tack lack of thought to brighten up and strengthen faculties I 1 hi g with rust to make life a fruitful fyd lyd and death a harvest of glorious deeds deed Y landt DW e jim nature in her simple but lovely landscape man a lesson amoeo moor e en emphatic hatic more tn re palpable be because 1 real and tangible because apie aple appealing aling to the heart and mind of the beholder who can gaze upon fields crimson and jellow yellow with the riches of the bending orchard and the waving grain wh avo 0 can look upon the sweet fruitful and serene scenery of rustic life without realizing that god in great visible and palpable opera matlins and results images the fine and unmarked processes that go on in man and yet et ette fe few w seem to understand the lesson leason taught U by the purple grape glistening kindly and the oak that di ops aps acorns for future oais oaks oaks that all is life usefulness use ube funess and h harmony armon I 1 why then theu should riot not the mind t be cultivated and store adored with wilh knowledge the Iii history story of all nations shows plainly that sometimes go vern menai menal structures that bade to become costly edifices felt fell to pieces in co coi sequence of the materials constituting a wondrous a pile being inadequate to the task before them no one will doubt that the education n of a rising generation ii is of vital importance for the advancement of a people in an intellectual orai moral oral and social capacity the children who now frequent the infant institutions of tuition in these valleys have haie as members of the kingdom of dod god a career before them more ma than the most gorgeous gorg eoas eods pageantry of r yala aall t more sublime because leading the j i youthful youth ul mind liitle t e scale c ale aie of divine know I 1 dge hence 19 thos os q who wb 0 signalize themselves in knowledge and virtue are likely to become V pillars p liars on which the burthen otje bonaby boal hoai lir tir great work will have to rest the T e mightiest nations whose deeds b avd ave avd been ben celebrated by the most moat versatile pens of different tilty er ages sunk sink into utter insignificance when h en compared with the latter day saints because we are eire erecting on cherock the rock of eternal truth on the thie foundation af divine revelation an edifice that will burd surd surpass si in power grandeur grande de r ani ani ahi beauty he proudest and mightiest ew elu eid etres pires res of ancient and modern time rhul thul thus while looking in th the e coniff coming ig years and Pg in the alluring mathli paths of honor and glory stretching away through fair flowered youth will set out on the journey of life ilfe limelight lighthearted light hearted and hope freighted treading joyously y on may heaven avert the darkening cloud the thorny path and mildew of dis dib disappointment appoint merit because life is so fair so sunny and BO so alluring to the innocent and pure yet with all this the ahe aduca educational dional ligaments i pi ebis ibis territory Terri tor Y are ala not exa exactly atly the h genius and talent fostering os t an institutions alons we tre expect them to ie be at some ering future t time t me W we do no not intend to goi gol aben t critically on and acquirements acquire ments of the teachers 0 of this city we beli beu ve the maj majority to be g good dd humble and competent men who exert me M themselves selves to their very utmost to do justice to the pupils under their care but the circumstances cum stances surrounding those engage engaged J in conducting schools are generally of so adverse a nature and so unpropitious to the mental development velola veloia nent of children that to speak candidly and tind correctly the educational with a few exceptions have been below zero thata is that what the teacher anticipated realizing reali zug by bis bia labor has not been accomplished the very fact of having from 50 to lobi lobl of either of different and abd pils sex aex J ages agea dispo i chions or rather packed ingoe pi often ade ame badly ventilated or otherwise uncomfortable room is a great hindrance hn drance to a proper or dr systematic c ossification classification assifi cation catlon of the scholars oft off fi A full school Is generally PP B ly considered I 1 a goodone good one A full is dol bol may be a good todd one but it abes not foiled that leis ilia always a good abood one f in the country of in germany 9 the pupils are always both hoh boh m primary schools and acad academies emlee strict strictly li abed so ast 8 f fuli full ua I 1 scope for a systematic an I 1 salutary bevel loument of the them intellect As soon as the child begins to obedye observe external things through the media of the benses censes the education begins and we would act wisely were wo we to follow out the system which nd nature teaches the e eie eve e of childhood aught to be trained to notice and judge of forms forma distances color sand all the natural natura I 1 objects with which creation abounds so anaa anna give gife to all the sensorial faculties a ment and thus cultivate in fine to the their IT fullest extent the powers of observation the pedagogue vieb vies soud boud remember that bensil discipline always lies in the direction of the natural order and exercise of the mental dowers powers hence it if an educational establishment ia is rightly conducted the powers f memory imagination and judgment will wilt be called on at their proper time and their proper place plages in n order to io elaborate into nto a ns structure the nate nave materials rials of the thi mind cong cona eq hently the thi teacher should laya lay layh a parti particular euli iuli ar stress upun upon explaining every principle connected oth with the respective at studies of he pupils lor for dilsso so that they may max in be able fo 0 give te 1 re ar eason for everything they learn earn earb this a r refers 1 ea especially to arithmetic the mathem eathem mathematical atiee I 1 and philosophical si lo oso hi c at studies adies st the fl 1 I exercise 1 e of a sponza spontaneous neou F and immediate induction of the untutored 1 infantine fantina ic mind ia is of ot treat a nce nee as in ri lation relation to our intuitive conviction that evey clia chag tig or cr event must have in an adequate cause tb this is a principle of dily app and abd one ona n e frieb which I 1 la is acted upon with absolute confide bl eer egr in the ordinary affairs of life lire by all classes of inan men from every work for ansta instance i cej ces we infer not only a cause but a cause which bolh voth in degree and kind is elac exactly proportioned toche effect produced I 1 I 1 if the teacher acts upon the foregoing principles ci plear he will wili manage the pupils according to their talents and ald especially see that they learn to think thi to mke make inferences and particularly ul to 10 understand that of a speaker or writer should thelA aethela be deve of the prece preceding ding dino one 5 in order birger then to carry on such sach a a pedagogical course successfully each class ought to have a certain mental as at well as scholastic standard that la Is those thase studying the al alphabet PP bet ought to be by themselves in a room with wilh ah a particular teacher to instruct themy them and not be seated promis bously with pupils working the extraction of df the cube root or studa ing other murg mure mure advanced sciences the reflective reader jeader will readily perceive that from a 4 d defective c classification assifi cation of pupils are more or I 1 less lebs es s arlson arising those evils oc of which patents complain co m pl MD ao so aly viz twit thai children will attend a school for or years an and tl b be e jyll neither ther spellers ifor readers adera re to say nothing of an utter igno apice arice of the common principles of punctuation here we must say that we ve do ao not expect ex hect common school teat teai herb hers to be classical scholars that they need not to be brt but we most positively assert that both pedagogic allrand educationally they ought to be tie govern a school and be familiar with the ar orthography tho graphy of their own language from one or two camps that came to our noti cewe know that men who profess to be teachers are committing gross gra grammatical mma and ca cal cai ernp errors ra w we e do not wish ish to fay pay pa yany anything thing about ab t p b re 1 logical mistakes mista kes kea the latter iatter r we m e d cons de der r pardonable peccadilloes in men dien vf a common education but relative to some bome who profess to caveat tain ments of a higher order we would kindly and respectfully co rec sore some philological and historical errors which we hea hear trilb dat tritt a public lecture in this city the pronunciation 0 the th is a noi not peculiar to the english lap language guage hut the th creeks greeks have the same sound in the letter leuer thata and there is still record that the ih A iud ind exist in an intha inthe the that german language up to tha the century when it was substituted by y the thi present ss sz hence the pro aro alii aili of the th is both of do anelo anglo saxen origin t y i I 1 classical and foreign names are belna pro bounced according to certain idiomatic pk principles in of the original language langu language from which they are derived thus a afe aie t thorough orough greek scholar will not angi cise classical words but speak them in accordance with the power of f the vowels of that language and in that rt the greek corresponds with the roman german scandinavian and semitic langua languages i es atthe pronunciation of 0 the english h t genius ia Is according accord ng to bishop JI Il orbley entirely difre different rint from that of 0 any other othir language 0 whether ancient or modern hence the extreme difficulty for foreigners to pronounce rio tio Iio unco english words correctly and the prevailing cust custom m ot the Anglo saxon race to an glickse foreign names in conclusion conic coric lusion we will say that we believe a to have arrived arnved in the history of 0 athe kingdom of god when the genial nature alid and tendency of literature and education the potent pote dote nt of human genius will gather at their shrines the flower of zions sons sona and daughters and thus be not only used as the fleeting vehicle of oral communication tinb tint be the t true epitome pi tome of all the intellectual capabilities bili iti ties and progressive improvements of our rising territory |