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

1850 items. For plain dress OF frock coat, custom
work, 80 25-ehop work, 50. Pantaloons ousom,
10 cents 10 81 IS, according 10 the extra work
panlaloons for shop from 80 cents 10 % PLAIN SIN
gie'breasted custom vests, IS cents--oiher kinds,
from 81 cents 10 81 25-yests for shops, 80 TO 90
cents according TO the work. Shirts, from IL to 20
cents One employer now pays six cents and
quarter, cash, for sailors shirts being notch lower
than the price for making the shirt exhibited in Fan
eu Hall on Thursday night.
before adIoufnng, measures for ensuring co-opera-
ton, and mutual assistance and confidence, were
agreed on.
The name of the society thus formed s-'''rhe
United Benevolent Association OF Ladies"
THE SYSTEM OF EDUCATION IN PRUSSIA.
II is common TO rase the perfection OF popular
education in Prussia. The subjoned extract, how
ever, from work lately published at London gives
view OF the subject which vii, perhaps, surprise
many Of our readers. We have heard similar views
from lightened German, who maintained that
the results Of the system much extolled had been
unlavorable both in respect To the intellect and The
morals Of his countrymen
From The ".Notes Of T,arelier on The Social and Po-
iiiicai State n Prussia sc. by SAMUEL LANG.
The educational system OF Prussia is admirable
admirable machinery by which schools, school
masters, superintendent OF them, checks, rewards
educalion-that word being taken in the meaning Of
the means of conveying certain very useful acquire
ment- TO every class OF society and TO every capacity
Of ndividuals--are diluscd over the country and by
law brought into operation upon every human being
in ii. The machinery for national education is un
doubtedly very perfect The military organization
OF tie whole population, and the habual interference
OF government IN all the doings and concerns ofeyery
indiyidual--hs very outgoing and incoming being
from the nature Of his military service matter Of
lnaN loo, r,..t. L..
II as easy 10 establish admirable system and regu
laon IN every object 90, erunent undertakes through
Out the Kingdom as IN barrack yard. But great
statesmen aud politicians, especially of the military
aud nobility, who only one ella or one side of
society are very apt 10 mistake the perfection Of the
means Tor the perfection OF the end. he mistake
IS common with our ON parliamentary philosophers.
The educational system of Prussia is doubt ad l.
mrable as machinery but the end is to be
attained IN more natural and effective way-by rails
ing the moral condition Of the parents 10 free agency
IN their duties; or if motif education, that is read
ing, writing, arithmetic cannot be brought within the
requirements oil The common mans children, but up-
on the Pfusian seml-coercile principle Of The state,
through MS iunctonares ntrudng upon the parental
duties Of each individual, stepping between the IA
ther and his family, and enforcing by state regtlla-
tons, fines, and even Imprisonment what should be
elt TO Tie moral sense Of duty and natural affection
of every parent who is not in state Of pupase from
mental lmbecy-then is such education not worth
tUc price pau Tor 1.-THE interference
with men free moral agents the substitution of go
vernment enactments and superintendent in the most
sacred domestic affairs Tor se-gudauce by conscience,
good principle, and common sense-the reduction
IN short Of the population OF country TO the social
condition Of sOdiery of duty, roaming about the r
parade ground under the eye aud the call of their
supcrur-, without free agency or sense of moral
responsibility. Moral effects Ia society can only be
produced 10y moral Influences. We may drill bows
INTO reading and writing machines but this Is not
education. The almost mechanical operations e
reading writing, and reckoning are unquestionably
most valuable acqurements-who can deny or doubt
h?-but they are not education; they the means
only, not the end the tools the work IN the ed,I-
cation Of man. We are too ready, in Britain, 10 CON
slider them tools which will work of themselves
that il the laborng man is taught 10 read his Bible
he becomes necessarily moral, religious man that
TO read j. to think. This conioundng OF the means
with the end is practically great error. We see no
such effects from the acquisition Of much higher
branches of school education and by those far above
the social position Of tie laborlng man. Reading and
writing requirements very widely dllsed IN Pa
RS, IN Italy, in Austria, IN Prussia IN Sweden; but
the people arc not moral religious, nor eng tei-
ell, nor free, because they possess the means; they
are not Of educated mind in any true sense.
If the ultimate object Of oil education aud know
ledge be 10 raise man 10 the feeling &C his own moral
worth, TO a Of his responsibility TO his Creator
and 10 HI conscience for every act, 10 the dignity Of
a ref, ctng, self guiding yirtuous religious member
Of society then The rrussdn educational system Is
failure. IL is only training from childhood in the
conventional discipline and submission Of mind
which the state cNacts from IFS subjects II is not
training or educaiion which has raised but which
has lowered the human character. This system Of
interference and intrusion into the Utmost domestic
relations OF the people, this education drill of every
family by state means and M Chnery supcrscde, pa
rental tuition. II l. fact not to be denied that The
Prussian population Is at tins day when the fruit, of
tins educational system may be appreciated in the
generation Of the adult IN remarkable demoral.
ned condition In those branches OF moral conduct
which cannot be taught in schools and are not taught
oy The parents because parental tuition is broken in
upon 10y governmental interference IN Prussia IFS Elf
cdcy ard weight snnuled, aud the natural dcn.n
dence OF the child upon the words and wisdom OF s
parent-the delicate threads by which the infants
mind, as ITS body, draws nutnmeBt from its parent
Is ruptured.
They know little Of human nature who know NOT
mat more OF moral education may be conveyed in a
glance OF a mothers eye than IN a whole course of
reading and writing, under educational sergeants IA
Urinary schools and gymnasia. OF al the virtues
That which the domestic family education OF both the
sexes most obviously innuences-that which marks
more clearly than any other the moral condition of q
society the home state Of moral and religious princi.
pies, the Ell ency Of those principles in it, aud the
amount OF that moral restraint upon passions and inn
pulses, which is The object Of education aud know.
ledge to au1in-s undoubtedly female chastity
VIII any traveller, will any Prussian saw that this
indeX-vlrue Of the moral condition Of people is not
lower IN Prussia than in almost any part Of Europe
II Is no uncommon event IN the family Of respecta.
BILE tradesman IN Berlin to find upon his breakfast Ia
bic a little baby, Of which, whoever may be the
father, lie has no doubt at all about the maternal
grandfather. Such accidents are so common in the
class in which they are least common with us-the
middle class, removed from ignorance or lndgence-
that they are regarded but accidents as youthful
not as disgraces affecting as with us
the responsibility and happiness Of all the kltb and