Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1845-05-09

FRIDAY:"a3:::"MAY o, ls45
Education, School, &c.

Education, School, &c.
We invite the attention of our readers
to the address of the committee on the
proposed Classical Sckool, to be kept in
this town.
1t IS not our purpose to write an elabo-
rate article on the utility or practicablity
of the project, though we will say few
things.
Of the utility Of the project no one who
is hover Of our Republican institutions,
or friend to the human family, can for a
moment doubt. We think that wherev-
er the American flag unfolds its stars and
stripes, that there should be found the
School and Seminary to educate the great
mass of our people.
1t is an admitted fact, that an illiterate,
and, consequently, an ignorant people,
never did--neVer can, and never will,
either acquire their liberty and wrest their
civil and political rights from the hands
Iofusurpers and tyrants, nor will such u
people, for any length oftme, protect their
liberty frem degenerating into a state Of
vassaIage to favored few. In couIitry
| like ours, where the elective franchise ex-
tends to all, it would seem that all should
be educated. Government is science,
and why is II that all other sciences re-
quire some learning at least, and knowl-
edge ofgovernment none? We need only
say that, in our judgment, those who wish
to exercise the right of voting, should be
able to read and examine for themselves,
and not he dictated to by others. Is the
project practicabIo! We think iris. There
are several young men in the town and
vicinity who are now waiting IN opnortu-
nifty to pOtronize our school. Snail they
be disappointed! We hope not. Wha,
are the inducements to pauonize the
school? We answer that, if tweu,9-fvc
young men and boys are to be kept among
us their boarding viii be worth, at 4l)o
per week, about SilOo per annum, a.3w-
ing the year to be divided into two sessions
Of five months each. The clothing worn
by the students would be bought of our
merchants, and made up by our taiIors--
our hatters, shoe and boot makers, and
mechanics generally would find additional
employment, by keeping at home our own
pupils, and bringing in others from abroad.
1t would also be great auxiliary to the
common schools Of the town and surround
ing country; because young men who were
completing their education, and compelled
torely on their own exertlons for support.
would occasionally teach in the neighbor-
ing common schools. Thus increasing the
number Of competent teaches, IA thing
greatly needed among us,) our com
mon schools would soon arrive at that de-
gree OF perfection so ardenty desired by
all intelligent christians and philanthro-
psts.
All sectariansm should be avoided in
the system Of instruction adopted. Car
rollton Is well suited for the kind of school
proposed. We hope our citizens will take
hold of this matter in earnest--a small ex-
penditwe will be required at the start, and
eventually the project must succeed. New
Hagerstown has her Academy, Leesburgh
her High School, and both are sustained.
Why not CarOllton her Classical SCHOOL,
Mathematics, Philosophy, Natural, Moral,
and Mental, the languages, and, indeed,
all the higher branches can be taught here
as well as elsewhere. AND WHY NOT DC
IT?
An enlightened selEinIered calls upon our
cHisens 10 come up 10 The t0ork al once
NWill they doi? We shall see.