Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1886 — Home Study. [ARTICLE]

Home Study.

Cramming is cruelty. A score of things well learned are better than a thousand things half known. A few hours’ study a day makes a boy mentally healthy; too much study makes him top-heavy. A brain that is made alert by knowledge is a good thing, but a brain that is water-logged with poring over books is a very poor thing. Children should be made to study hard in school, but not a lesson should be learned at home. Emerson once said very tersely: “We are students of words, we are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.” Our present methods are defective, but we shall apply better ones by and by. The system of the future will have this fact in it, and all through it—that a boy is an out-of-doors animal, and ought not to do a man’s work until he acquires a man’s strength.— New York Herald. Prof. Chas. P. Williams, Ph. D., of Philadelphia, says there is neither morphia, opium nor minerals in Red Star Cough Cure. Price, twenty-five cents a bottle.