92 Timehri. 



very much on the increase, and if one should take a census of the number 

 in the class of Titmouse, one would be astonished at the result. 



In a previous article on the Black Peasant Proprietor the writer has 

 not hidden the fact that, in his opinion, the faults underlying these 

 peculiarities belong to us who are responsible for the training of our 

 people. This disinclination or bending away from, work on the land is 

 also found in some instances in the Creole East Indian — the product of 

 our primaiy schools. 



The remedy lies, we feel convinced, in taking the " educational coach 

 and turning it in a direction opposite to that in which it is now travelling." 

 If our children were trained to think correctly we should find less pains 

 given to the things that do not matter and more care given to the 

 weightier affairs of this life. 



It is a fact admitted even by the teachers themselves, that many of 

 our children have no respect for anyone, we ourselves are familiar with 

 the as-tfood-as-anyone-else air that is commonly adopted, the ready lie, 

 the rude retort, the cool insolence, the disposition to take up always an 

 offensive defensive ; the ill-brooking of discipline, the want of restraint, 

 whilst as to their morals (using the word in its narrow restricted sense) 

 the condition of some of our young people tells its own sad story. 



The tragedy of it all is that we appear to know these things in our 

 hearts and yet no drastic remedies are sought for, the outer covering of 

 respectability is allowed to cloak a state of affairs as unsatisfactory as it 

 is unsavoury. 



How often do we find out here the well-kept home, the restraint of 

 keeping within the income earned, the regular methodical habits that spell 

 success, the sinking of self and the practice of doing what is right because 

 it is rio-ht ? Are our clergy satisfied ? Are they pleased with their efforts ? 



The ill-kept grave-yards, the dirty churches which one finds here and 

 there, would point to the fact that the laissez-faire habit has not escaped 

 some of our preachers of the Gospel of Christ. Do many of our clergy 

 pretend to know the causes that have led up, step by step, day by day, 

 to the development of the wife beater ? 



Take our daily papers and read there the list of petty offences ; the 

 filthy tongue, the godless conduct, or worse still visit the court-rooms 

 and hear for oneself what our magistrates have to listen to day after day — 

 tho sordid stories of petty spite, the abominable lying — are they not all 

 present ? 



And yet nearly all of these people have been baptised, many have 

 been confirmed, some visit the Altar of God at the Holy Eucharistic 

 service. 



Practically all of them have passed through our primary schools. 

 And yet we are told by Ruskin that " Education does not mean teaching 

 people to know what they do not know. It means teaching them to 

 behave as they do not bohave," 



