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JLEMAES WEEKLY SUN,TSaturday, FBBftUARY 13, 1802.1Jouu■The Lkmahs Wbekt.y Bun Is published every Saturday at Lemurs. Plymouth County, Iowa, by Oeo. P. Gof/DiK. ;•Tkhms : Oue dollar per year, payable in ad* vance.AnvKimsjNQ Uates made known on application.wintinfrot of 1 frnc dr a N. phiThe Sun's Platform.Tho Sun Is an Independent He form paper, .devoted to tjv* following objects :Direct taxation.Economical government Perfect freedom of trade,Tho Australian ballot system.All state and local taxation to bo on real estate.All paper money to be Issued by tho government.Total'{abolition of the tariff and internal revenue laws.Government ownership of railways and other public works.Abolition of National Hanks, or their power to issue paper money;These several subjects will be elucidatedIn successive numbers of the Bun.tin is n ed ! En* Tin con and wofroiconthalesswin])OllTtoreTho argument for the compulsory education of children in the three It’s and attendance at the public schools is based on a partial view of matters and things. It is admitted that Nature commands, in general, that the government of children should bo left to tho parent. The compulsory education of children in a way tho law indicates is an infraction of the natural law. It is assorted that tho law provides a public school for children, and therofore, as a Consequence, tho parent must send his child thcro. That is an unreasonable deduction, and conflicts with the other statement that tho parent is tho governor of his child. Tho state provides a post ofhco; it docs not pretend to compel the citizen to use it. Tho stato builds and furnishes a poor house; but rather discourages its occupation. It is evident, thorcfore, that tho dictation of the stato that tho child shall attend tho public school does not originate in tho fact that tho stato provides tho school, but on tho assertion of tho absolute authority of the state that the child shall learn tho three R’s. Tho several institutions mentioned above, as well as tho school-houso, are for uso if the people need them. If tho parent does not think ho needs tho school, it is absolute tyranny to compel him to uso it, and drag his children from bis care against his wishes or will. And bere wo may obsoryo that teachers see their interest in compulsory education; it makes additional work for them; as the higher class of professional teachers are always for the extensions of the public school system and large appropri-tions for that purpose. There is thus a class interest involved in tho notion that the child must bo made to learn the three R’s. Admitting that a citizen does wrong in neglecting tho scholastic train' ing of-tils children, aye his rights as a vfiWWrt and his liberties as a free man to* be interfered with for that, and himself• and child punished by the law ? If the law took notice of every wrong doing of citizens it would have its hands full. Is tfyo law to enter tho household and regulate its manners, its cookory and its pveryday wear ? Those may all bo in-. imfferably b^v nono the less is thehomo art impregnable fortress to tho law where there is no infraction of the rights pf others. What pro the three R’s VThey are no,t manners, morals, truth or justice; they arc of no trade or profession ; they dp pot teach tho phiid how to live or how to make a living. They pro not so much knowledge as a means of knowledge. They are tools which the phlld learns to handle. What a srrjall part they are, then, in the education ofa child. It is tho home where the child.is really educated; tho school only furnishes tho substratum of book knowledge, and may bo easily learnt at home. As regards the actual benefit of public schools there are. different opinions. Many believe that children are ruined in health, morals and physical stamina by a close attendance at school. Theypome in forced contact with tho vicious.--jindamcegulaied habits ~anxL manners. ofpther children. The moral and sanitary atmosphere of schools 'are considered bad and contaminating. These may be poally bettor than in some homes, but {.hat is no argument for the legal diBtur? banco of homo authority. And it is not necessary that a child should attend the public schools to learn to read, write and understand figures. It may be the greatest cruelty to a child to compel its atte n-,dance at school. It is known that the ponstant going td'gcKo'di’does moire harm to a child than the learning attained helps it. Children may be ruined by unlimited kindness1 tip well as by neglect. Hotbeds pf edueatipn and overmuch care breed delicacy, while roughing, it” makes the hardy and commanding citizen.' No education;is worth obtaining, at the idsk, to/, say nothing of thq portainty, of a permanent loss of health,” says an article in the Youth’s Compart-. iAM Tlfiu manful ntuiauttwn1 uaadmototinlinecoaho\mu:porfouandfroipai of tto lt;rah tar uuc sue the she coa wititn]ingAnpuidietheLo:antfrotio:ItimaWlldeimufrotheorei VVi boiile,boithlt;touiofh;isiflaaitc0!itnouion. forced mental pressure’used tq learn tho lessons at school destroys, in a measure, the observing faculties, re-guii'ed to corqbat Nature for a subsis-Uteef Tho harjdy Tpind may not be injured, but it is. differoptAVjitb the slow and weak, The great business of life is Jo supply tbo physical wants of man. While gebbiajtio education is useful andmttmiit^inordinate extension is enora?$ forgm any body tell wby Iowanrirl hfidioft
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Le Mars Weekly Sun
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Sat, Feb 13, 1892
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