Show schools and school in farn fain VIEW sanpete county utah april oth 1874 editor despret news mems allow me the use ora of a little space to notice a letter which has appeared in the several editions of the NF NEWS vvs allu aliu alluding diug ding to schools in S san an pete in general and intended to lead your readers to think to fairview in particular so far as tile the latter place is concerned it is entirely a mistake mis mia take we have a schoolhouse as yet unfinished but in which a primary school has bas been kept during the past quarter it is certainly tiie tile bet best building of the kind in the county and when corn plated and fitted up a as 4 it is intended to be we vve think will compare favorably with any in tile the territory we have not a schoolhouse school house accommodated with peg leg slab benche tables table and windo windows ws adorned with old lla ats Ls instead dorglass of or glass 11 anoil er school house the tile old one as we all it has aas maps charts and other instruments st for the tile convenience ol 01 pupils and teacher and it ha haq not to the best of my knowledge been used nore fore for elther either ther dances or other performances for mances at any period for tho thu last fifteen months I 1 in n fact the benches baand and desks in use being fastened to the floor cannot possibly be found out outi in uthe the snow nor ba ilalie school been a fail fall failure ure urb tile the public examinations disprove this assertion the progress of the pupils has been rapid and the tho amount of information which the examinations has ilas elicited as being in the possession of the pupils has not been equaled by lbs any school examination I 1 ever held oruie or was present at in the eastern states or in this territory your correspondent is not a resident of fairview that is certain or he would not have hare made such incorrect statements as I 1 ler ier er vade his letter we have had during the past year pupils studying bookkeeping ac ong ono of these thohas been not only in a commercial college bat bult also in tho the deseret university informs ruo roo that under the system of his present teacher lie obtains a much better insight into inta the branches of mathematics ma t maties matics he which he studies than lie he did at either elther of the two institutions named in this result alone we 11 do not judge that our school is a failure and this is not a solitary instance for children chil dien who could scarcely tell their letters a year ngo noo ngo ago can now read in the second or third S cittee bit git attee tee I 1 will state as briefly as readers enumerate as far as billions and solve most of the problems in the first four rules of intellectual arithmetic if this is a proof of failure I 1 wonder what your correspondent reen t w would 0 u 1 d ca call cali suc C CS 8 leaving g open 0 p e n the question q u c stion whether a free or a subscription is best calculated to bring about the educational millennium which your correspondent perhaps expects will be possibly kiil of the tho results of liis his letters but which looks like a dream and dark vision on at least to me but agreeing with him that we have abu abundant n daut resources to have better schoel schmiel houses and much more moh improved school machinery than we now possess which should not only adorn the walls but be rendered useful in transmitting information to tile the pupils to endeavor to remove one of the hief causes of the insufficiency of our present cornmon common school system we vve must in the we words of SU t it ij campbell have the adz idea disi dispelled elied belled that any person with common ability can teach a primary school well weli enough and the more intelligent sentiment prevail that a person possessed of the rarest talent the most genial disposition and the most effective discipline is the teacher to be sought after to lay the educational foundation and to have the fashioning and of the infant mind when this sentiment begins to prevail wo shall speedily see tile tiie pedagogical gial giai lal lai quacks whose pronunciation is faulty whose grammar is still and whose igRo ignorance rance of even the first four rules of arithmetic is 13 a L disgrace sink to their proper level and in a few years we hall shall hali hail wonder how such a blending of ignorance gioran cc and impudence could ever have been tolerated as an aspirant even for the situation of keeper of a school much less as that of an educator of our youth yours truly J P YOUNG school trustee |