Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction Volume N . 22 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...repair. Convenience, neatness, and the health of our children should be consulted in the structure of schoolhouses. Because we endured hardships in our youth is no reason why we should necessarily impose burdens upon our offspring. It is still the opinion of your Committee that the establishment of a high school in the place is an event which the exigency of the times demands. Nathaniel Day, School Committee. SEABROOK. Ought we to expect schools with good order when scholars are not taught at home that they must be obedient in school? We may have the best teachers that natural abilities and experience can make; but until parents will learn and do their duties, our schools will fail in many important respects, and will be no credit to the town. What is learned by the different studies is profitable, but is by no means all that should be learned. Most of our schools are in a condition where no manners, self-respect, or any moral or religious influences can be brought to bear on the scholars with any lasting impression. We repeat, the teachers, whatever their qualifications, cannot help it. The fault belongs to parents and citizens, those who are alone responsible for the character of the town and its schools. R. L. Gove, School Committee. SOUTH-HAMPTON. The principal obstacle to the progress of our schools is the trifling value placed upon education by too many parents; with them the education of their children is of secondary importance, while the acquisition of riches occupies their undivided attention. It is to be lamented that parents are prone to take their children from school, for the purpose of the profit to be derived from their labor, at a time when their powers are most adapted to treasure the best of riches in their own minds. The registers show o...