Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-06-29

lnOtLdLaOH 10 UtLc7lH Lne 1SQLtOTlQt COBOeIHtOH "
the Friends Of Education, to assemble tn Philadelphia ON
the fourth Wednesday in August, a. D. 1850.
At a National Convention of the Friends of Edu-
cation, held at Philadelphia, on the 18th, 18Th, and
10Th October last, the following resolutions we're
unanimously adopted:
Frst. That this Convention will meet in the city of
Philadelphia the fourth Wednesday in August, A. d.
1880
Second That in the judgment of this Convention, the
friends Of education in all its departments ought to be
listed in its deliberations, and that issuing notices
address for the next annual meeting, the invitation should be
framed comprehend both those interested in common
schools and those connected with colleges academies and
other institutions.
Third That the President of this Convention be re-
quested prepare, this principle, short address, to be
published by the committee least three months before the
next eetng urging the attendance OF the friends OF educa
ton throughout the country.
The time having arrived which the duty prescribed in
the foregoing resolutions must be performed the subscriber
respectfully presents himself before the public and socits for
few moments the favor Of their attention.
Although the Convention, from which the foregoing reso
lutons emanated, composed Of the friends OF common
schools yet is expressly required that the invitation be so
framed comprehend both those interested in common
schools and those connected with colleges academies and
other Institutions"
This comprehensive invitation liberal and WISE It pro-
poses unite ALL teachers of youth in cooperative effort
The different periods and degrees Of education meet and
flow into each other that they hardly susceptible Of being
even theoretically separated From the first form in the
primary school the highest class in the university there
perfect continuity of progress. No break, no chasm no
change of identity interrupts the course The succeeding
grows from the preceding as the oak OF hundred years has
grown from the germ that cleft the acorn Or as the bird
that scars undazzed towards the meridian sum- has grown
-. ali IL. ;Jant
Of college, and the teacher of primary school, though
standing far apart stand in the most intimate relation to each
oher Without the abors of the latter the former would
have no material on which his processes could be performed
and without the former the works of the latter would remain
crude and incomplete They engaged different parts
Of but single work, and there is the interest
between them as between the Of The seed gather
er of the harvest
Heretofore there has often been something least Of in
difference not of alienation and epulsion, between those
who presided the Of education and those
who superintendent its close Il is time they should that
their interests avere, but IDENTICAL nay, that when
pursued in harmony they cumuavey benefcen These
parties may benefits when acting separately but
when cooperating they multiply those benefits BY high
moral power. The child whose mind well developed in
the school oom not only shoots ahead but speeds farther
and farther ahead Of all that he could have been without such
early Development his advancement Is represented Dy
kind Of compound well geometcal series, made up By
multiplying time into velocity When, in his turn, such
child becomes parent he sends better prepared chill
dren the school room And out Of larger number Of
minds awakened in their YOUTH and made seconscous Of
the of their faculties and Of the glowing delight Of
their exercise all the colleges to lcnghen their caa
logues for child whose mind has been fred by love of
knowledge cannot be kept back from those deeper fountains
where his thirst be slsked The college draws him ire
sstby, and he will break through every barrier-poyery
encouragement, toll sickness al but the "unconquerabe
bar" Of death itsef-to reach and enjoy it. The colleges
will only eng,hen their catalogues, but illuminate them
with brighter And community so trained and adj
vanced, will look back with fa pety to the institutions
where heir honorable began, and will love to chersh
honor and elevate them, and all who labor n them Such
action and reaction fail lift up the II is there
FORE most earnestly hoped that all grsdss of teachers from
the earliest the latest will attest their interest in their
cred pesson and their regard for each other by their pres
ence at the proposed Convention.
few considerations will to show that there
has been period in the history Of when Universal
Education imperative duty at the present moment
mean education in its most comprehensive and phiosophc
sense including the education Of the body, the education
of the mind, and the education Of the heart.