BLACKS SCHOOL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 87, 14 October 1870, Page 3

BLACKS SCHOOL.

(To the JEditorof the. Mofnt Id^'Chr'onigle-),

; Sib, —Permit me to thank ybu 'earnestly, for your kindness" in publishing yeeent defence r of my.reputation as .a.-. teacher,. .against; the inferences deducible, from. 'school-furnished by a correspondent of the ' Dunstan:'Times.' ; .• i. • h I sent a very - brief letter-'••to. t tlie .Dunstan Times' * 'ivitli : tKe letter I to. y ( o.ur' journal, ■•ftnj; mf: letted to !.ihe. Times I > Isimply stated: tbatefl was pleased to read the report of Eather Royer on Blacks schdol r , ' aiid I /doiipled ; this ] stateifleM : • with, the : jthat tjhie;merits which'elicited.. Father BPyer's gotpd jopinion touicl[not r 'tpossibly/ Tbe idue.;toi;:Mr. Dixon's new -iiian ; ag6meii?t, i! feijtendfcg oveiv-.oniyi six weeks : ' J (at the tiixie of the writing : of ; '.Fatlfer f! Kdyer^s"letter), w tout ; inust be; due v 'sblely merit," ext^nd^^g^. pv.er twenty-"one. months, during whiPE period,.as_l_gave I few other ' wSich a comparison KfS'cgfEf tarns will prove. k -But the ' Dunstan Times'. states that letjer addressed .to its' editor, is.lunsuited to its column's..: 'The 'accepted, .though not; the literal;modern meaning of the word "peri "r o lenge the 11 Times' to publisli ter, and if, after sp/.d&ing, any man of - rrecognrisjed. edueational r positipn asserts^ 5 that it the offensive sense, I will pay an advertisement We 1 for its insertion; I hereby accuse the 4 Times' of a false accusal tion,.¥naOmy%c I be easily ansv^rddeby«fc&e3.pu/blication^iQf rc iiiiyr letter. • oif Th§rtiritrue 'statemfent of" your Clyde lead Eathfer Slacks School Committee, a'rid perhaps vvrittenj:aii. < ;pxtm anenfert'Bkr.ka/' schoolv-jtoj-fthe^:* Times,' my letter tpth at. Luminary was '•'•I '".'fj orxfUOi; <»t : 'U « «ha i&«la &s tit •pojisti>esg.i9l^ i b^|a?3i4^? fc s i '.defensive, not qffimsive. a->oiu-<*t yiuj OnndnfesW&om^the i^r dents, I would f Relieve" have ''received

more kindness. ®ut from temperaand education I atn entirely unsuited to the. company of non-literary persons, although I can respect them; and consequently my whole time at Blacks was occupied by school tuition and study. Fortimafely|fbr me, ithete'i is - one gentleman • oi.xJlh.e Hogburn who 'knows : me thoroughly, and to whom I can refer foiv confirmation of what I say ! . 'The 'public,; as ia wh dle^. ;have a: £re£y wrong idea of. a'teacher's duty. think that he sh'oul'd J 'mix with his ; fellow' men., i On the . contrary, I think that he should be above his fellow men —that he should . Mi'example *to i>dth'ad ul'ts-and pupils, arid thkt' strong drinking, gambling, loose, talk, and mixed company are entirely at variance with a teacher's duty to himself arid to his scholars. I know that T. am" preaching an unpopular doctrine ; but even should I starve, owing to my practice and teaching of - this doctrine, I will not relinquish either its realisation or its propagation. Your paper is widely read in Dunedin. sir; and T sincerely: hope you iivill ere long enlarge it, when I feel certain you will receive' a •large' increase of patrons. —I am, &c:, :' " • ■ M. W. Stack-."