New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-15
EDUCATION FOR ALL.

Rochester on Thursday OF next week, (20th
int. J is one in whic hive feel SO deep an in
tere.t that we are impelled to recur 10 it,
in the hope that some additional interest
therein may thereby be excited. A large
meeting is not expected nor desired; if
f;ftv persons who have faith in the idea,
and are willing to labor for it, should come
together, all reasonable expectations will be
fulfilled; since we know that the thou
sands of like sympathies cannot Afford at
this busy season, to suspend their work for
any such purpose. We have been disap-
pointed that the journals have not more
generally given currency to the brief call
issued by the Secretary of the Association,
so as to let those participate who would
gladly do so but we must take things as
thew are, and make the best Of them.
Six leading ideas, as we understand
them, are cherished as vital by those who
originated this movement for a new Col
lege. They are
/. thorough Education ought to be
placed within the reach Of erery youth who
is willing to work forit.
Q. Such Education should qualify for
eminent usefulness in laudable erery sphere
of practical life-not that each student
should learn every thing, but that the OPP
portunity of mastering every desirable field
of knowledge or Science should be pre-
sented, and each be permitted to choose for
himself, under parental guidance and the
counsel of his teachers, whatever branches
of study should be deemed most essential
to the path in life he contemplates.
3. Every advantage and opportunity
proffered to male students should be prof
fered equally to females-which does not
imply that girls shall study the same
branches as boys, but that they shall have
a right to do so if they choose, and that
their own sense of propriety and fitness,
properly educated and counseled, and not
the arbitrary DEGREES of Trustees or Facul-
ties, shall indicate the branches they shall
study and acquire.
4. The regular and inhexible devotion of
not less than three hours per day through
five days of each week to some kind of
Manual Labor shall be required Of every
teacher and student, as essential to health,
vigor and longevity, to the completeness of
Education so that the professional man
may at all times be able to relinquish his
profession and fall back upon manual labor
when conscience, health or i'll success shall
dictate that step; and so that the poor
student may, by diligence and frugality,
pay his way, and enter upon the RESPONSE
bilities of active life unburdened by debt.
5. No call upon the State Treasury for
aid in founding and sustaining the Peoples
College,; though, in case the Legislature
shall see fit to make grants to other Col
leges, the Peoples will claim to share
equally with them.
6. A large and excellent Farm shall be
be the base of the Industrial economy Of
the College, serving to illustrate its daily
lessons in Agricultural Chemistry, Geolo-
gy, practical Farming, &C., with various
workshops or manufactures, impelled by
steam or water-power, whereby every stu
dent shall find employment suited to his
capacities and tastes at all seasons, with
the best instruction in every department
and the command of the choicest imple-
ments and machinery.
Such are some of the leading ideas
which have been suggested by those hith-
erto interested in the movement for Peo-
pies College; but all is yet plastic, and
may be nodded into such a shape as fu-
ture consultations and discussions may sug-
gest. Let US make good beginning at
Rochester next Thursday.-As an incite-
ment to effort, we point to what has been
done, however crudely, impsrfectly, and
if you please faithlessly, at Oberlin Col
lege, Ohio. One of the Faculty, writing
thence to The Forest City, Cleveland, says:
If anything is settled, ii is that some physical labor Is
essential 70 preserve bodily health. The numerous
wrecks of good constitutions in of study have
opened al mems eyes, and convinced the most scepu
cal and the most credulous that labor Is essential TO
health 1t ought TO be equally well understood though
10 not that IL just important the mind and the
morals. man viii learn more of his books, will ad
vance further in lis studies day by day. If he labor Wig
orously three hours In the day than he win 70
study those hours.
And then, too, every student win rest from bis books
some hours each day. and If he does not work. he will
begets immortality. And yet once more, no student
whatever be his pecanisry ability, and certainly no one
who Is not rch has any right live entirely upon his
parents his friends. There 10 duty resng on him
TO contribute to bis own support to labor working