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Book Title: History Of Fountain County

SCHOOLS.

   The people of Fountain county may justly be proud of their record upon the
question of education. From the very earliest period in her history, the people
of this county have been the friends of education. Many of the first settlers
were possessed of a very limited education, but all of them had enough to feel
the need of more; and to her credit be it ever said, Fountain county has never
recorded her vote against any proposition looking to the advancement of the
cause of education.

   The first schools taught in the county were not of a very high order, and the
rod was as conspicuous in them as the spelling-book, while the principal idea of
the teachers would be appropriately expressed by the formula, "No lickin' no
larnin'"; yet from these schools have come men who would have done credit to any
station in life, and from this beginning we have steadily advanced until our
county takes front rank with her sister counties in schools and educational
advantages and facilities. We have much room to grow in yet; we have not yet
learned to pay a woman for the same work in the school-room the same wages we
give to a man; nor do we yet fully appreciate that teaching school is one of the
highest of employments, requiring the best talent in the land, and that the
position of teacher should be made one of such honor and emolument as to attract
the best intellect of the world. We need also to have more fully developed the
idea that the chief purpose of education is to elevate men and women in the
scale of life, to increase their power and capacity, and to make them more
useful to their fellow creatures. We need also to have continually present to
the minds of teachers and pupils the fact that there is nothing that so
completely destroys all true independence of character as that form of education
which disposes the individual to avoid all occupations requiring manual labor;
and that there is nothing that makes a man so self-reliant as the knowledge that
he has, within himself, the ability to earn a living, whatever may happen. It
belongs to the school to encourage that true independence and self-reliance
which should characterize the American citizen, and to teach that no one, no
matter what his station is or may have been, is disgraced or does an unbecoming
thing by engaging in honest labor.

   Fountain county has $131,650 invested in school buildings, and a permanent
school fund of $47,750.

   She expends upon her schools each year $     , and has nearly seven thousand
children entitled to admission into the schools. Her schools are improving each
year, and there is no county in the state that presents a fairer prospect to
those who have children to educate, and who desire a home where this education
can be had in the common schools.

   The schools of Attica and Covington are a source of pride to the citizens of
these places, and deservedly so; they are really first-class in every particular.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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