Show educational I 1 1 SCHOOL AND FIRESIDE i contemplating to write a series serles of of articles under the above if ac cording to ie quest request the tha writer does not lot intend in tend to lay eia cla elaborate bonate borAte e essays ays on education before the public but iilene mere practical ideas ide as concerning this all important subject as they have presented themselves jn hi the course ourse of liis ills ex empei L lence c nce nee as a teacher tealler to t his hia in mindi diw with th special regard to he circumstances and own people in these valleys vailess of the mountains although he be feels con strail s trained led to state at the beginning ginning e that thai SO some me of ills his I 1 ideas dea s aily mily may not cor vor respond in every particular with thu the tiie preconceived notions of a great many if we wo cast east an investigating glanco glance lance over the history of the development of othi this 4 people we will find that right at the beginning thu the prophet joseph smith sm til alx emphasized the tile ne cassity of or education not only by occasional speeches speecher eche but mot inot mo t emphatically by liis his example thereby leading out into n to fields holds of ot intellectual labor tile the cultivation of which should be reserved for those that would come edme anter alter him and his contemporaries if succeeding events have made mado it impossible for this people to beep keep up in tile the line of work uninterruptedly in every particular as their first great leader ii had ad laid out for them it must be borne in mind that joseph merely laid out the plan of the city as it were restarting we starting soma something thin at all points in indicative dica tive of future requirements and follo following iving generations gen orations erat enat ions lons would have to take tip u these points just as soon as tl times ati avi and circumstances wo would uld permit and above all the spirit of cevela j tion almade as made known to tho the people c by the the mouth of the tho living prophet would require in honor to this people be it said that though gittlein litt lein fact very little may h have ave been done sometimes for the cause of education they never have lost it sight of the injunctions of joseppi entirely alid and in III continual exhortation on the part of bf tile the au 3 and efforts here and I 1 here amota among the people the latent spirit of fuch such sueh love nor for education has manifested its existence in the times of hard pioneering of sweat and destitution of bitter struggle 0 with the elements of the wilderness the virtues of muscular labor being the almost only re guis quis nesto kesto to save and sustain ilfe life it is 1 not to bo be wondered at that that intellectual attainments if not shared with muscular exertion were at a decided discount and a man who would attempt to devote hig big energies to the build building ingup up of or othe the cause of education n in thos those e days would have been either not s a appreciated re e lat d at all or would have havo app been ee n c considered 0 n s dered a chap that either could not or would not work school teaching being considered bonsI considered dered no the strict sense of the term the writer of this has labored a himself for years und under erthe the shadow of that cloud the same condition of affairs was observable 1 in home with 1 education a few noteworthy exceptions here hero and there a boy found lilt olih summit of his ambi ambition tinnin in the arl art of putting a pair of legs over a horse and the girls to dance the most the father heip help being worked down and the mother in many instances too weak to control troi the healthy but vit too tob fat fast grow ingup p spirits of their children fc K G M |