Show IONAL lonal lems nr Y IV M x s the educational lu fluence influence of home on the mind of the child cannot be over much ef of the childs character is formed around the fireside at home charity loye hope patience aud and in fact dlithe delthe virtues that radiate from frow the home circle the actions of father mother brother and anti sister are arc carefully scrutinize scrutinized and hive have h ive lve their effect for good or bad TO REAP KEAP THE BEST educational RESULTS of our schools requires the combined efforts of parents school officers and teachers in one of our districts school trustees were to be elected four vur bur out 0 of f fifty resident voters voter s of the district attended the meeting A tax was to be levied to procure means to provide fire desks school apparatus etc for the comfort and advancement of thu chil chii children dren the friends of education were too busy to attend consequently there was no tax secured the pupils purlis spent another year ear in the old dilapidated ila iia abed school louse kouse house with dusty and rickety isetts in another district active interested trustees called a meeting for the pur purl 1 pose of raising funds for school requirements the meeting was well attended the parents were interested in the moral intellectual and physical crowth of their children chil chii dien true there was appo bul but the genuine friends of un n wera successful the schoolroom room was furnished ane walls cleaned and ornamented with maps charts blackboards pictures mottoes etc seventy five bright and ha happy ap pp y faces quietly bending over their lessons now made deil dell delightful hafl by the pleasant surroundings tell us of thet united interest manifested by teacher trustees and parents TRUE EDUCATION those who oppose education are the very ones education opposes an educated person is ful careful earnest constien conscientious con i bious no one can bean be an educated ae ecologist biologist mathematician bistor historian la it or linguist unless he possesses all these qualities it is part knowledge that is dangerous not part education that is always good education E ti cation catlon is just like ilke pure old oid it is always good A little is good more of it better men may abuse it misuse it adulterate it but fine gold id Is and always will be good justson just to with education bacon say A little education is dangerous 1 lie was too wise lie ile knew better it education ce lu cation catlon that i made him fall it was the want of it it is THE WANT OF EDUCATION that makes drunkards thieves d de e vaulters laul faul libertines murderers murderer they lack something or they would never have been sinners sin bin comes of weakness A man can never he be edue educated abed into weakness weak ness hess any more than he can lye be properly exercised clothed war warmed warines ined and fed into sickness I 1 I 1 ho how w can a child learn to walk alone unless he uses his tits legs if hu should d never be trusted to use them the m he would never learn to walk so if he is never trusted to ludge judge for himself he will never learn to use his judgment of all motives fear is the lowest loviest and of all lorms forms of fear fear of physical pain is the lowest of all motives fear of bodily suffering is the least in chail chati changing gln gin the heart or affecting the charY character charzan Rr dr lyman abbott the book a child studies most thoroughly is the open book of his teachers character from it he learns les ies lessons upon which he is not marked or examined but which he learns learn with a lifelong life ilfe long iong thoroughness schools are organized for the benefit of the scholars not the teachers they are not teachers mutual admiration societies but pupils improve ment merit associations 1 |