New-York daily tribune., 1842-07-22
sFIF- OBLIGATION nv JonN M.

VINO are tie SelfEducatedl The great mas
If maakirl. What s Education HAT winch
best enables "A man to discharge hls obligations to-
ward his MAXER-and, therefore. toward him-
self and his fellow
Tried by this standard what becomes oi what
is called Educationl Who are the Literally tdp-
Gated Who the Learned And what are they
good for IN comparison with the great mass oi me
Eneducafed az they are called, Who constitute the
People; who build our Cities. aDd cover the Sea
with ships; who span our Rivers with oudse- and
pile up our Fortihcatisns and Temples; VINO print
our Books and OR Newspapers, and scatter abroad
upon the four wind, o. Heaven the seed Of cm-
pirc, ard the iinpcri-hahlc dust, oui o winch ihe
Nations shall hereafter spring and the wilderness
blossom like a rose
But most of the mon who do these great lhue.
are IF the G'neducatcd. 80 say the wor'd-inc
Educated and the I Dneducato1 alike. What tnrn
is Education Is It aa imperfect knowod OF
Greek and Latin; OF Hebrew and Chaldcc J..
it profound acquaintance with the morals and
metres Of Latin verse; Or familiarity with cir
,Ie, and lines and angles, amounting perhaps f0 .
speaking ac1uaintancc with the higher mathcma-
,ics. which after all, are wanted by the few. spon
very few occasions in life, while that which IS
learned by the great mass of the Jncduca'ed IN
the shape of trade, or a business. may be matter
OF life and death TO millions, and OF Constant np-
pcatIon every day in the ycar-and every hour in
the dav In a words it Law, Physic, or Di-
yiniiy
Let Us not be understood :. speaking iucyc-cnt-
ly of caning-whateyer it may be; for all learn.
ing has IL use of science, in whatever shape IT
NAV present it.clf-ior all science, wh1ioyer ii
may bs at first, becomes at last a household SCI
want. and most faithful dniagc to the roorost
and the neediest; II Law, Physic, or Divinity
for all have their uses, and to "a held IN rcv-
crcnce
But what we dc wish TO be understood as 50, ing,
Is this. Let Us not mistake the relative import
ancc of human acquisition. Let US not look upon
that knowledge or that wisdom or that experience.
without which society could not be held together;
without which could not i've for day--the
know ledge and wisdom and experience of the ne
chanic and the farmer, the fisherman or the sailor,
as worthless in comparison with that other know
ledge. and wisdom aad experience, without which
the great mass Of mankind have always got along
very comfortably, and always will the knowledge az
Greek and Latin. Of prosody, and philosophy, and
what i called political economy. Why call those
,he Educated-who would staryo tomorrow If
they were east upon their resources in suarge
land Those, the Ipe4ucatcd who could support
themselves and their families anywhere, the sum
Of whose knowledge is sclf-reliance ip,tced of
selEdisirustl
But again. Who are the scifedusatcd All
who are distinguishcd--ior all such must have
taught themselves more than they were ever taught
hv Others all who educate themselves IN any way,
10 any extent: whether an college or out--at the
work bench or the dissccting tableal the printer,
press or the forge. And he j, The best educated
nan-whe,her Self Educated or not--who has best
understood bis obligations to his MAKER and Hx-
sELy-and best employed all the tacHhies-nota
part only-but, all me faculties. whcrowih God
has endowed him: in other words-thc Man. who
j., most a man through life; and who. whether he
nave one talent or IA thousand talents burics none
of them in a NAPKIN Manual Of Seil-Ed