The Snow Storm (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Snow StormLastly - though not least - That I may express some sentiments in rela tion to a subject of deep import to the rising generation, if not to that which is now upon the stage of action, and give them a more per manent position than through the ordinary channels of the Press.Almost every man and woman has a vivid recollection of the terrors of school. Days, of the acts of injustice, tyranny and cruelty in¿icted by their teachers. I certainly have.Very deficient from birth in number, acquisitiveness and secretive ness, (so styled by the phrenologists, ) in my childish days arithmetic was so profound a mystery that I could scarcely comprehend that two and two make four yet I was required to perform the same sums as those who, from their different mental conformation, delighted in figures. It being impossible to comply, I was cut and threshed with hickory or other rods, until my ¿esh would not only be much bruised but also raw. At last, to obviate such suffering, I yielded to the teachings of those boys who compassionated me, and commenced a game of deceit by hiring and begging the doing of my sums by those who were competent. If un fortunately they committed an error, I paid the penalty by receiving a good threshing. Thus the brute of a teacher forced me to learn. And practice fraud and deception, against which my small secretiveness andlarge conscientiousness constantly rebelled. In reading and spelling I always led my class. Yet for my natural deficiency in figures I was cruelly, almost murderously, treated, to make the idle little rascal cypher. Witnessing that others who cyphered well were always being threshed for deficiencies in reading, spelling, etc., so indelible an impression was made upon my mind of some great wrong somewhere, that on arriving at manhood I determined that no child of mine should ever enter school if such ignoramuses were teachers and such systems pursued.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.