The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-10-03

ally ue steps Al bis tdncDltOn.
Are these the steps 10 any OF the true objects OF e..
ucaoD 10 the attainment Of any high feeling Of ind
dual moral worth and dignity This educslionals y stem
10 In reality, from The cradle 20 the grave, uoBlug
but deception delusion Put upon tie modest
principle Of human Dature-the desire for utellco-
luai deveopmeni-a deception practised for he Iai-
try political end OF rearing lie individual 10 the pant
and parcel Of artificial and d, spotc system Of Co
ssnmenl, of training him TO be either its instrument
or It's slave, according TO his social station,
Selbisgeiuh Is superb word which the German
language possesses, TO describe the sense Of ones
own moral dignity as man but the feeling sem
ment II expresses Is wanting IN remarkable degree
where you expect TO find II strongest-among the
Gle rman youth, the naturally educated youth Did
IL happen 10 traveller taking q walk in tie
neighborhood of Oxford Cambridge, Dublin, Edin
burgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Saint Andrews or any Of
the Universities in the United States, to be aocOsted
by stout, able bodied, well enough.dressed student
begging with cap in hand, for money from the pas
sengers on the high road' Ten thousand 10 one no
man alive ever witnessed such debasement of mind
among the youth Of those countries, educated
educated. The lad would sell his clothes work,
list, sarve, drown, hang, but beg he would not
In Germany, within a half a mile Of the unyer-
sity OF Bonn, on Sunday evening when all the town
was abroad walking, have student IN tole-
raby good clothes, his tobpcco-pipe in his mouth,
begging with his hat of on the public road, running
aft passengers and carriages, soliciting charity and
looking very sulky when refused and the young
man 10 full health, and with clothes his back dat
would sell for enough 10 keep him for a week
This no uncommon occurrence on the German roads
Every traveller on Tie roads around Hedelbcrg.'
Bonn, and the other university towns Of Germany,
must have frequently and daily witness ed this de-
basement OF mind amoung the youth.
This want Of sensibiily TO shame or public OPT.
Mon, 10 personal moral dignity is defect Of cha
racer produced entirely by the system Of govern
ment interference IN all education and all human &c.
ton. II Is an example Of It's moral working on So
| cety. II IS not from moral worth, character or
nin IIntI their ITO. Hat, r..
ment, from educational, military, or civil function
aries, that the studying class have in every stage Of
! life, 10 seek advancement. The generous feeling
impulses, aud motives OF youth smothetcd under
the scrve institutions Of the governments by which
the means OF living in any of the liberal professions
or even IN the ordinary br inches of Industry are to
be obtained only by government license appointment
and favor, not By moral worth, merit and eXerion
gaming the public estimation. Morally they are
slaves Of enslaved minds.
The great proof of the deteriura,iug working of
the Prussian educational system upon the public mind
is that the public mind lay to pid and unmoved whty
tie regi establishments Of the Protest ant ChgN
the Lutheran and Calyanistc Churches were aboli,
ed by royal edict and third thIng-a new PIu,slan.
church, neither Lutheran nor Cayanist-was set up
and imposed by the edict Of civil power uton Tie
Protestant population. The abolition Of the rehgious
obserYances and mo es Of public worship IN which
they bad been b e J, was quietly submitted 10 by an
educated populat on OF eight millions Of Protes,an.
a matter OF policy, not Of conscience ne matter
quite as much within the legitimate right and powon
| of their government, as change IN their custom
house aws--so low has this educational system I'd.
duced the religious and moral sense IN Prussia ana
the feeling Of individual right TO freedom of coti,!c.
on--and except from a few villages in Silesa which
refused TO abaud, the Lutheran litufgy aud obsen
ances, scarcely mu:mur heard from this educa-
! ted population at measure not only destructive e.
the Protestant religion, but the arbitrary and
insulting 10 freedom Of mind and conscience that ha>
occurred IN modern history.
| irht mill Of 10. iii.
their hands, brought by tits educational system
to regard with indifference the interference OF govern.
ment with all that free men deem sacred m lie wlh
family education, religion, conscience free ageuv,
and opinions IN religious belief to be the pa>. f,r
slaves OF government in which they are not rcrrr.
sented-to be nothing but machines 10 be uIarag,l
by The hands Of host Of public functioDarl,s-lh.u
let Us educate our own families IN our own Wsy 900
Britain not educate them at ALL rather Than aiort
system OF national education for teaching reading
and writing, so deteroratng TO the higher object,
! cducatlon--the cultivation of moral aud rglgiuI,
sentiment, al d Independence Of mind anon. d. pro-
/ pie.
The social value or Importance Of the Pru an
arrangements for difusing national scholastic eo.-
cat has been evidently overratcd for now q 81
| tie whole system has been in the fullest operation
N society upon a whole generation, We see more.
| aud religion m more unsat> lactury state ia I.
very country dian IN almost any other N tie ulIi
! Of Europe; nowhere a people ia q more a1.
Ject pc ical and civil condition, with les. lt,a
agency IN their social economy. national educ
ton, which gives nation neither religion nor ml
~ nor civil liberty nor political liberty o.u,-
ton not worth having.
Who could suppose while reading pamphlet. .,-
views, aud literary articles out OF numb, r. on nfI-
al education, and the beautiful system, mean. a
arrangements adopted by Prussia for educating te
people, and while lost IN admiration in the cluc4t E
al labyrinth OF country schools and town school
common schools aud high schools--roal schools .,l
classical schoCs-gymnasia-p rogymnasia- normal
schools COMMUNICATING would ,ft-.
pose mat, wlll all tins education, eduCatilu
lowed-that while reading and writing are enforced
upon all, thinking and the communication OF thought,
are prevented by arbitrary censorship OF the press
sometimes street, sometimes lax W ho could .rr.
pose that Tie only visible use TO the people Of Prussia
OF all tins national education is, IN reality 10 WrIn
out otlcial, civil, military reports from interiors
superors-that IT enters IN no other way into ti.l
social affairs Who could suppose OF The very per.a
Victor Cousin, the Edinburgh Reviewers, and 20 me
ny other eminent literary men Of oil countries r,rr
eXlolling the national education aud general a,t.
ment of reading in Prussia, and klndlmg around 'p
holy and 'lrtupus enthusiasm among the moral aul
religious, for the diffusion Of knowledge IN all
tries-hat the exercise Of worship anywhere but
church was prohibited and made criminal m Prussia
10y an cdictal law dated 9th March, 1884 aud tist
many persons suffering imprisonment, civil tisatii-
ties or other punshmcni for this Pussian crime ct
worshlppng God in their houses. were only hbc-
rated and pardoncd by the amnesty Of August 1910.
IL 10 read write, cipher, and sing be educated a.,
RUSSIAN subject Is an educated man. II 10 reason
Judge and act as independent free agent, IN i.s
religious moral, and social relations Of man g. Do.
Creator, and to his fellow men, be that exercise ot
the mental powers which alone deserves the name 81
education, then Is the Puissian subject mere drum
boy IN education in the cultivation and use Of all ut
regards the moral and intellectual endov mcnis of
man. compared TO one Of the unlellered popust.u,,
a free country.
The dormant state Of the public mind on an ALLAH.
OF pubic interest the acquiescencc m a total watlg
political Influence existence, the intellectual .,
pendcnce upon the Government or its huuciiYnsr, u
all The Affairs o. the community, the AFFECT su'm
az freedou, ar frca tI.,..I.