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Show $ mm r . - ,,1 ",r . . ' ' Another School Year Begins The schools of the lanl are beginning another J term. In this city the Branch Normal opened last Monday and next Monday will mark thej opening of the city schools. There is no other subject or matter or interest ? for which so much is expended in a financial way in America, as for tho maintenance of the schools. Every possible opportunity is offeredKoday-for the acqirement of an education. There is none so poor that he can not enjoy the blessings that come with higher knowledge; Jnor are there any who are so old or so isolated that they can not have its benefits, provided thev are mentally capable of receiving and retaining instruction. Today the public schools givo courses of in-structon in-structon that a few years ago were considered as belonging to colleges, while the colleges are turning to more practical things, with the result that their graduates are given a practical as well as a theoretical training. Free text books and school supplies have removed re-moved entirely tho handicap that formerly prevented pre-vented thoso in poor circumstances from enjoying an equal opportunity with their more fortunate noighbors, So rapid and thorough has been the progress in the plan and system of instruction, that to day a person may acquire the equivolent of a collego course, by mail, at a nominal expense. Correspondence schools have been established within recont years for tho teaching of arts, scientific, and professional courses, and their success has been almost marvelous, many of the leading men and women in recent years having acquired their technical training through cort respondence instruction. A? eminent an authority as the lamented President Harrison of Chicago University said that Correspondence instruction is the most successful success-ful instruction, as a whole, that can be given, for thoso who sought it invariably desired it far more than tho averago person attending a resident school or college. At the present time this school, rated as one of tho best in America, is giving correspondence cor-respondence instruction in forty-two different subjects. The month of September will see hundreds of thousands of students enrolled in the schools of tho land, many of them to spend the greater portion por-tion of their lives in tho school room, for under the present system of education, it requires more than half tho period of the averagtfrffikr of life, to secure a complete business or professional ed- J uction, so that the pupil has but half his life to dovoto to tho affairs of business. Great are tho schools of tho country, though far from boing perfect in thoir curriculums. And tho best that aro to be had, aside from purely technical institutions, are enjoyed by the people of Cedar City and adjacent territory. |