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Is There A Fault To Rectify?

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Day
20
Month
October
Year
1897
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Public Domain
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Bd. Courier : - The follcvwing remarks made by a member af the Baard of Educatiou of Grand Rapids, comtain thoughts which everyome may well study and ponder over. I do not think they apply in any particular forcé to our schools by any means, buit I think in the hurry and hustle ai our school work it is well to coiiisider that youthful brains will noit stand too rapid developmemit, and ira anxious to have your readers bnow the opinioiis ntertained by this gentleman on the subject. He said : "I have been fully convinced for somo time that the pupils in the schoolls are being ovrworked. There is something wromg wlth our educational system, and it is nothing else than this tendency to cram the ohildnen with a general smattering of everyMiung instead oS confining them to subjects n-hicli wtll be useíul to ttiem and which they cam follow np. There is no reaaom why school chiltlren should go homd at night with a taeadache. If there is proper veutilation, tineir work not too severe, and they have proper recreation, they eliould nat become sick m keeping up wtth tli-eir classes. Bat we hear coniplaiints all the year round from parerots who urge that their chilcren are being worked to dea.th, ant: who come home? at night after school all fagged out. Anti they are briight children too, capable as we ever were in our younger days. It may ba that we wiil be called oíd styte, and that we are not progressive because we are advocating a turn to okl style methods, but I thiaik Kt is right just the same. I ean nee no reason at all in fcrying to teach chiWren all. t lie sciences at a jump. This is an age of progression and tidvanced education, but we can no't aH aïtard to follow KCience for a living. The great majorHy oE our school children leave school at the eignth grade ov betore, and, therefoa-e it is nonsense to go m preparing all for a high school educatiom, wlien they nevar can follcw it up. I am lm favor of cutting our system down to lis plaim and sensible a basis as possible. Our dhildrein ghould inderstand arithmetic, geograpihy, grammar, Bpeilimg and a few other things, and ihey sliould understand them well, but I can see no reason for tryiuig to torce sciences, art, etymology, socio-l'ogy and all the other ologies along ■wïtJi them. We can puit the time la to better advantage, and we wil.1 make better citizens out oí the pupi.s, too." A FATHER. Almost every man in America has some digestive tronble. Whca meii moet, the greetiing usually is, "WeU, how are you "?" Tlnut develops liealtli talk. The niatu who has ïio bowel or stomaeli. woabte ts aimost a curiosity. ïrouble is mea vake no care oí theanselves. They Oat as though they had eoppeir stotnacbs and bowels ofbi-aiss. By and by, pverworked ntiture rebela. Then comes 'hieadacbes, nei"t)usness, bad blcod, Hyier and kidney troubles. Dr. PLerce's Pleasatut Pellets iurnish help ior constipa tion and torpid liver, sick and biliöiiiS headache, dizziness, eour stomaoh, loss o{ íuppetite, indigestión, or dyspepíáa, -vindy bellc'hings. "heart bun-n," paiix and distross aft-er eating, and kindred derangements of the ïi'ver, stomach amd bcvels. Accept no substitute.

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