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3. We want better Teachers. The [[?impression]] seems to have obtained an unfortunate currency that any body will do to teach the negroes. That to know more than one who knows nothing is a sufficient education for this work. Nothing could be more mistaken. [[strikethrough]] This error [[?]] to our work some which have not even a common school education [[?]] spellers, readers & writers. It is important to observe that [[/strikethrough]] very much depends on laying the foundation well, & in nothing more than in our processes of education, a faulty start may carry its influence all thru the long processes both of [[strikethrough]] an [[/strikethrough]] education & of life to teach the alphabet well, one needs to know more than the alphabet. Even in teaching in as small a matter as this [[?]], all knowledge & all culture is valuable. And this is not a small matter at all [[?]] is to affect all the processes of the education  of a mind & determine the whole breadth of its [[?influence]]
The beginning of it may well do [[strikethrough]] & also all that that education may also affect [[/strikethrough]]. The teachers should be [[strikethrough]] thoroughly examined & [[strikethrough] cautiously appointed & [[?]] regard to character & fitness should rule in all such appointments.

It costs no more to fund & sustain good Teachers than those who are inferior & often the inferior expect the more from overestimating their own attainments, because the ignorant, usually, know little how much there is to [[?]]

4. There should be in the towns & cities a more perfect classification & grading of the schools - & in Vicksburg & Natchez - there should be, next year, a strictly [[?high school]] of select character - & perhaps also at Davis [[?]]