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 400 HISTORY OP SOUTHEAST MISSOURI Employers Names No. of scholars Remarks standards imposed from above would have Samuel Sutheriin 2 been mucli superior in many ways. It is E. w. Cowan 2 doubtful, however, if such schools had been Conrad Shearheart 2 conducted whether they would have met the Coraehus Mabrey 2 /. . isam Sutheriin 1 Deeds 01 the commimities m which they ex- James Kirkpatrick 5 isted as well as did the crude and inefficient Andrew H. Forister 1 schools developed by the people themselves. Wm. Lee 1 Out of these schools there has grown a system Eerbley Lee 1 ^^ education which is justly the pride of Mis- V illiam Hawes 2. _,, ^ ^ ., , . . , T , T-. /*u ti, 1 souri. That system is a growth, it was not John Days (three months) 1 • "= ' Samuel Baker 1 manufactured and imposed upon the people, but is the expression of their own feeling School Regulations ..^^^^ ^j^^ ^^.^^j.j.i^g ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^■^. ^^^.^ ^^^^^ ^i^^g 1st They scholars to come to school at half past the line of education. 7 o Clock in the morning or as soon after as cir- gj^-jp ]-,y gj^jg ^y^^^^ ^j^ggg subscription schools cumstances will permit. ^j^p^.^ ^.^^^ developed in certain commimities, 2nJ They will come with clean hands and face, , , . , , , -nTi .i , . „, , , cluirch or parochial schools. Wherever there hair Combed. ' 3rd Whenassembled at the school house there "ere strong organizations of Catholics or will be no Discoursing of laughing, but every scholar Lutherans there were always to be found these to attend to their lessons and study schools. They were attached to the church in 4th When at play they will play without hurt- ^^^^ ^^.^^. ^^^^^gU^ ^ separate building was ing one another. Climbing trees throwing stones or ■ t ^' i^ ^t ' i ^i i ^ j .. ^, ■„ u uuv. J irovided for them, and they were conducted going into Avater will be prohibited ' 5th It is hoped that every scholar will be Guided b' a priest of the church or by One of the by these Rules. nuns. These schools are still to be found in Signed T Taylor, tutor. fhis part of the state. In all the Catholic communities are separate parochial schools In judging these subscription schools it conducted under the direct supervision of the must be kept in mind that they were wholly church itself. The largest of these schools, vohmtary schools. They were defective and as well as the oldest, is that at Ste. Gene- failed in large part to accomplish the work vieve, which has an enrollment of more than which ought to have been done. Their terms three hundred pupils every year, were short, their equipment inadequate, and Academies there existed no standards for those who taught in them ; and yet they were the out- The early settlers in 'Missouri were not con- growth of a local feeling favorable to educa- tent with the establishment of subscription tion. This part of the state was working out schools for elementary education, they also its educational problems for itself, everj' com- began the development of schools of secondary munity independent of every other com- character as well. The south, from which Mis- munity and of the state. People devoted souri received a large number of immigrants time and money to the solution of the prob- at the period when Missouri was being popu- lem of education. Other schools organized lated, held to what has been denominated the on a different plan, better equipped with academy idea; that is to say that education