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

limitation to attend the National COnUenti0R OF
the Friends of Education, to assemble Philadelphia
the fourth Wednesday, in August, a. D. 1850.
At National Convention of the Friends of Edu-
cation held at Philadelphia on the 18th, 18th, and
10Th October last, the following resolutions were
unanimously adopted:
First That this Convention will meet in the city Of
Philadelphia the fourth Wednesday in August A. d.
1850.
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 in issuing notices
address for the annual meeting the invitation should be
framed comprehend both those interested in common
schools and those connected with colleges, academies and
other institutions.
ss Third That the President of this Convention be
quested prepare, this principle short address, to be
published by the committee at least three months before the
next meeting, ung the attendance Of the friends Of educa-
tion throughout the country" >n
The time having arrived which the duty prescribed in
the foregoing resolutions be performed the subscriber
respectfully presents himself before the public and soc for
few moments,the favor of their attention
Although the Convention from which the foregoing reso
utions emanated composed Of the friends Of common
Schools yet it is expressly required that the invitation be
framed as to comprehend both those interested in common
schools and those connected with colleges academies and
other institutions" ..
This comprehensive invitation liberal and wise pro-
poses unite ALL teachers of youth 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 to the highest class in the university there is
perfect continuity Of progress No break, no chasm, no
change of identity interrupts the course The succeeding
grows from the preceding the oak Of hundred years has
grown from the germ that cleft the or, as the bird
that scars undazzed towards the meridian sum- has grown
from the eaglet just chipping its she'll Hence, the president
of college, and the teacher of primary school, though
standing far apart stand in the most intimate relation to each
o,her Without the labors Of the latter the former would
have no material which his processes could be performed
and without the the works Of the latter would remain
crude and incomplete They engaged different parts
of but single work. and there the common interest
between them between the Of the seed and the gather
er of the harvest
Heretofore there has often been something at least Of in
difference if of alienation and repuson between those
who supenended its close It time they should that
their interests averse but dentca nay that when
pursued in harmony they cumulavey bene6cent 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 roo only shoots ahead but speeds farther
and farther ahead Of all that he could have been without such
early development HIS advancement is represented by
kind of compound well geometca series made By
multiplying time into velocity. When, in his turn such
a child becomes parent, he sends better prepared chill
dren the school room. And OF larger number Of
minds awakened in their youth, and made sefconscous Of
the existence of their faculties and o the glowing delight Of
their exercise all the colleges engthen their
logues for child whose mind has been fred by love Of
knowledge be kept hack from those deeper fountains
where his thirst be ssked The college draws him
sstibly and he will break through every baerpovey,
encouragement, toll Sickness al but the 'unconquerable
bar Of death sefto reach and enjoy it. The colleges
will only lenghen their catalogues but illuminate them
with brighter names. And community trained and ad
vanced will look back with al piety to the institutions
where heir honorable began and will love CHERISH
honor and elevate them and all who labor in them Such
action and reaction cannot fail to lift up the is, there
FORE earnestly hoped that all grades of teachers from
the earliest the latest will attest their interest in their
cred poesson and their regard for each ohe by their pres
ence the proposed Convention.
few considerations will to show that there
has been period in the history Of when Universal
Education imperative duty the present moment
mean education its most comprehensive and philosophc
sense including the education Of the body the education
of the mind, and the education Of the heart.