And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, January 18, 2016
Sod School House, west of Merna, Custer County, Nebraska in 1889
And they all stood up when the Teacher entered that room; they all said, "Yes, Ma'am, no Ma'am" and never, ever talked back. They swore the Oath of Allegiance and meant it, they prayed, and meant that, too. The kids walked to school after doing an hour's worth of domestic chores, then walked home again after school to do more chores. Any homework was done by the light of a candle or kerosene lantern. Information was garnered from valuable books, not Google or Wikipedia. And the next day was the same. They grew up and made the USA great because they were disciplined, creative and well educated. Engineers, Doctors, Housewives and Labourers all sprang from these roots to give the 20th Century its greatness.
The backbone of a nation.
ReplyDeleteI'll bet they knew math and could read and write and probably understood US History.
ReplyDeleteAnd write legibly in cursive.
Delete12 girls, 4 boys. Might be harvest time and then menfolk couldn't be spared.
ReplyDeleteAnother great one.
ReplyDeleteAnd they all stood up when the Teacher entered that room; they all said, "Yes, Ma'am, no Ma'am" and never, ever talked back.
ReplyDeleteThey swore the Oath of Allegiance and meant it, they prayed, and meant that, too.
The kids walked to school after doing an hour's worth of domestic chores, then walked home again after school to do more chores. Any homework was done by the light of a candle or kerosene lantern. Information was garnered from valuable books, not Google or Wikipedia.
And the next day was the same.
They grew up and made the USA great because they were disciplined, creative and well educated. Engineers, Doctors, Housewives and Labourers all sprang from these roots to give the 20th Century its greatness.