Western courier. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1838-04-05
KENTUCKY COMMON SCHOOLS.

ASHtuCky mas just auOpleu uuI SASSil
lent School Law for that State. Provis-
ion is made for dividing the counties in
to districts and building school houses in
each. No district can have less than
thirty nor more than one hunded chik.
dren. The people in each district deter
mine by vote whether school tax shall
be raised in addition to the fund provided
by the State. This is well. Leave this
question to the people, and it must ulti-
mately prevail, Ohio Common School
Director.
Firm the Annals Of EducatioR.
cat no period of the worlds history
has there been such demand for indi-
vidual opinion. There is, every where,
a breaking up Of old opinions as we'll as
Of old establishments---the beginning OF
great moral revolution. How shall we
stop it2 Not by physical power. 1t is
too late in the day for that. It cannot be
stopped. Nothing is left for US but to at
tempt TO guide and direct it. How shall
we guide it? The answer is, by educa.
ton. Not, however, by edueatinn such
as II has been, butby the education as it
sh~Ald be. ~ --4--g--. e
"Men have hitherto been educated ac-
cording 10 their circumstances to ac-
romplsh some particniar purpose. The
education Of one nation was TO render its
citizens warriors, Of another, to render
them, as it were merchants; of another,to
render them sailors. And however ex-
cellent may have been this education to
accomplish its ends, it failed after all, in
making any thing more than mere frag-
merits Of men. The concentrated ener-
ges of no individual or nation OF individ-
uals have as yet, over been brought out.
The physical energies have, in general,
been developed, and they alone; and the
world, and our own country among the
rest, is beginning to feel the consequen-
ces.
"There are also numerous instances,
and in some circumstances they are be-
coming frequent, of mere development
of the intellectual powers; but the results
are scarcely less deplorable than dispro-
portionate development Of the physical
powers.
'sMoral education is more neglected
than either Of the former; and, where
attended, to, is often SO managed as to
fail Of accomplishing all the purposes in
tended.
'.Education to accomplish its ends,
should be conducted according to tho un-
varying character Of man; and should be
based onthe laws Of nature, written rev.
clation and providence. Our whole be-
g-body, mind and spirit must be de-
veloped in harmonious proportion, and in
perfect symmetry. ss
"There is a most surprising neglect,
every where apparent, o. the education
of the physical functions; as if all here
was to be left to chance. Whereas the
laws Of the planetary world-the laws Of
The material universe itself f--are not more
fixed in their operations, or more certain
in their results than those which should
direct Us in physical education and phys.
ical management.
.sAll, however, b be done, with a fl,
raj reference to the spisitual affections.
Education, on the principles Of nature,
revelation and providence, will be carried
out into eternity. The results are, in
deed most happy here. We may be not
only happy, but'useful, even in infancy.
Rightly educated, in the largest sense Of
the term, we should be loyal to parents,
loyalto good institutions and good govs
ernmcnt, and loyatto 10 Heaven"