New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-11-18
system OF Education in Association.
First Article


(Firs, Ariicle)
We commence today concise description of
the System of Education proposed by FOURIER.
1t will occupy several articles, and we commend it
TO the especial attention of our readers This Sys-
TEN OF Industrial and Scientific Education is inUniy
with all other parts of the System of Association
and Is deduced from the same universal laws.
Educatton Of Early Infancy, Extending TO the
Age Of T@o Years.
There i; 70 problem upon which more contra
dic,ory theories haze been promulgated than upon
.I,at of public instruction and its methods 10 see
clearIy in this confusion of Systems let US first de-
terrnine the object to be attained.
In all the operations of Association, the great
object is UNITY. To introduce Unity into Edu-
cation. il must be COMPOUND and INTEGRAL.
70 be Coapouad, it must develope combinedly
both the body and the mind; the present systems
Of Education fulfil neither of these two conditions;
they neglect the body and pcrvert the faculties OF
he mind and the passions.
To be Integral, it must embrace all parts of the
body and all the faculties and passions, and give
pe1fectou to both. Our present systems do not
perfect the body, and they vitate the passions By
sel6shDe.s aud dupcity.
The Education of Association will develoPe at
the earliest possible period in children all voca-
tons fer which instinct Is PelcePtlble, and will
direct every individual to the various functions to
which Nature dcs,iucs him. This natural order
is completely deranged by our present systems,
:, heip
in opposition to his natural capacity or vocation.
No question is so little understood that Of
natural instincts for locations, capacities for
scientific, artistic and Industrial Functions. The
Education of Association will fully solve this
problem. IL will not develope in tbs Child one
talent alone, the capacity for single Vocation
but twenty or thirty, varied and predominant in
different DEGREES.
Riches, (by Riches, we understand all things
necessary to Mans material wants and happi-
ness) being the frs, object of atlainment-the first
tendency of our passional naturo--lhe Education
Of Association should commence b. directing the
Child TO productive Industry, which is tho source
of Riches 10 do SO successfully, it must destroy
shameful characteristic of Civilization, which
,coarseness and rudeness of the Lower Classes.
and The difference between them and the Higher
Classes in language and manners. This character.
is,e is believed necessary by many in Civilization,
as the Laborng Multitude, oppressed by Poverty,
would feel too kcenly their Misery, il they were
polished and educated; but in the Combined Or
der as The Mass will possess ample sutfciency,
it will not be necessary brutalize them in order
to inute them to hardshirs, which will to
exist, aEd 10 Fl, them the monotonous drudge
of Civilization, which in Association will give place
10 a system of Attractive Industry.
Attractive Industry will rendur poitcness and
afability necessary among all Classes; for if In
du.try in Association il to attract and interest thu
Rich as well ms those in moderate circumstances
in lis occupations, coarseness OF manners on the
mar, of the latter would be alone sufficient coun
,erbaance the charms which Attractive Industry
should offer to The former. The richer Classes
would not take pleasure in exercising Industry
with coarse wor>men, or in mingling with them
in the Series. Thus, to promote the welfare CT
the Mass, and TO induce the Rich to take part in
Industry it is important that all Classes in Asso-
citation should be polished; the Poorer Classes
should viz in politencss with the Richer, in order
to combine IN the exercise OF Industry, the charm
of personal intercourse with the pleasure OF occu-
paons.
General urbanily, and Unity OF language aid
manners, can only rssul, from uniform system OF
Education, which will give to the poor Child the
manners md tone of the rich. Ii there were in
the Combined Order different systems Of Educa-
cation for the Rich. Poor and Middug Glasses,
as there are in onr Civilized Classes the same re-
suit which we now scc-,hat is, incomPatbiity of
classes and duplicity OF manners, would take place.
Such an effect would produce general Discord it
is, consequently. the first defect which the policy
of Association should avoid it will do SO by a
system OF Education, which will be ONE AND THE
SAME FOX the entire Association, as well for the
entire Globe, and which will every where establish
Unity and foteness OF Manners.
From the moment Labor is rendered attractive,
it will become necessary that the Working Glasses
Should be polished and well educated. 1t would
be a seriou, obstacle 20 the cnnobng of Industry,
if those Glasses retained the vulgar manners of
Civilized Society; for they must mingle conlinu-
ally with the Rich in the Auracttee Occupations
OF the Series. To give charm and freedom to this
intercourse, elegance of manners and general po-
likeness must exist. People in Association will
have as much friendship for each other as they
have at present dislike and hatred. An Asso-
citation will consider itself single family, per-
fectly united; and an opuent family cannot wish
that one of its members should be deprived of the
L,I....,;1,r .,l,;ch tho others have race;ued