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u rnidofiya*II*satoro-D Ot *.Editor I lickin'in Courier:#The very narna rings of tyranny, despotism aud oppression. “The price of liberty is eternal vigilance,” has been justly said by a wise statesman, in reference to the affairs of the oatioo, which may well bo applied at the present day to tho system of com pul-ory education, which certain Jem agogucs are trying to euforcc on u people, professing to five under a ro publican form of government. It is au admitted fact that many who vote for tho school tax never send their children to the public school, which clearly prove# that they vote, not that they pf lho school or theitn teacher, but becauee 11 is oww-idtitwi 2 popular and progressive move, and then show plainly by their conductr*hatcotant:oF9tipolleimi%it3P1 . liblduy*J uthat they prefer schools and teacher* of their own ohosing, and set dowu the lost taxjs as 50 much paid to push \% onward a movoment agreeable to tltsr feelings of the populace. It ha# bccu proved that this republican govern incut existed for nearly a ceutury with for mere greatness and glory than it is ill j to be feared it ever will maintain in! the future. Before the idea of coin 1 pulsory education began seothiog in r * I the brain of impecunious pedagogue#, who, tcorniug the honest sweat of the in plow, the loom uad the an.il, seek to5*»toI3Pu;4dc.beicwoce-heheasip.ofobtsiu fat salaries oat of the pockets uf the people, aided sod abetted by j the 3tate and tlio.-e who wi*h to pay ul for the educatiou of thoir chilJreo out °d of the pockets of their neighbor*. It he - has been proved that criminals who bad received the highest education have been guilty of (he highest and most revolting crimes known to mankind—io fact, a rcuoeiucut of crueltym their crimes, therefore education J. Joes not prevent crime. It has been cj proved here in our own community that u man who couid speak seven dif fercnt languages was content to gain hi^daily bread by doing the odd job' ill ! about a house and garden, with a bed xt iu uu out*house, which was a -pocics of pauperism which education did not prevent. We might enlarge on several u. other eases somewhat similar, in this community, but this is sufficient for 1 the present. vce ' Let us take i view of compulsory education at home. Hero is a mother, he a widow, perhaps, who has lost all a he ug holds most dear ou this earth except ny bo child, her “one ewe lamb. She nj |has spent hours of care and thought he in the education and training of that t-t child, and, with other things, trying ou to touch it the difference between an ot immortal soul and a boast of the field,Mirendositita sai na es W'lI 1naI ( th; iothlt;fillnanoshthm-■g*ied 1 torcirspiis00lotaupraupwathimeleistlt;poartof3bItil\ye?ith.padi:thpaK®thplizaarpowidevoid of reason. The compulsory school is established, aud having paid her tax, her child mudt go to school It does not matter if tbs teaching of ihat child is the uuly pleasure left to her iu life, to school it must go. When j introduced into theooHOT*a turrounucd by the common herd of children, the low, the vile aud the vicious, whose parents have no regard lor them whatever, presided over by a common school teacher whose greatest ng ; ambittoo is order and obedience. After its, ] a system of grading which tneaos put ting the greatest uumber of children iu the same book with the sumo lessou om tbit cat) possibly be made to stand or per . sit iu a row in the tchool house, or ran | perhaps two or three rows, the cduca led’ liou begins. Kcnred ia peace and ily fjuiet at homo, furnished with every m# assistance and incentive to study, the u.». litllo braiu is cue turned iuto a whirl ire j pool of fright, coufusion and dismay, rtg When the time comes for it to recite, j liumau nature fails, not a worJ is forthcoming. The teacher insists ou a recitation without any response. Justly iuccnscd at such an act uf di* obedieoce aud stubbornness, he has no other recourse than the ruler or the birch, tiuder the daily application of which, tbo child scc-ms to becomo more stubborn and diBobedicot, until, t»rcd out, *be teacher has it expelled from school as unworthy of even a compulsory educatiou. If the mother, fear iog all this, refuses to send her child to common school, she is to be fined §25 to help the school treasury and the taxpayers. But oue column is too short to prove the injustice ot the law that compels the child uut to houor and obey his parents, above all others, as inculcated iu (he good book.A. \\\ IiOW.tiiibttsarul*°y.Qg«melg.ateptwoipsthe w-eet idehaoudugrso01pjasin-tiisaIfuter•ismca j
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Hickman Courier
Hickman, Kentucky, US
Fri, Jan 09, 1880
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