New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-01-03


,rhip end capacities, their modes q "euocS'" '"1
: ,Pr.,.mi, herewith the Annual Reports OF ASssn'
800, dsnt. Riddle and Seton Oh me oper s4ons
anS;,;nn ~ the Respective departments s:Hgneo
o. 49, rh.rve The information eommhnts'e1 ~
80 - Iii he fund valuable and important arc
rss,.ctfslly commend their vts"s sse -: - Ia
tiois TO the early attention ana
Board. ..o. ov ypucArroS.
Tn ali our effort. to improve sDd Ptrite. Vu,
Of Public ln5uetOD L S c :, to keep view
~ e11fs aIms and objects of Edu ailon' 80 r.
manifold ard vsrious comPrebeh iIlS ~ - ,,nr.
hanniress and we'll beng OF irdi' G"as os - - 1b
ptes States and NATIONS DO. Shy ~ ,be desinos Of
Present, but OF the Future Nv
Tin e bat of Eternity. -. A,-,..er IN ali IL,
Fdncsijon is the formation Oh oh@I Sc -, s"J
.snect. In all the possibilities oil us uet
ffsns;on here ant hereafter IL Is 'ne cu''
"a discipline OF every faculty OF the inei'eo
- 81 rsrv Aft, ctoa and disposition oi me en !S o. orr
Ieh,ious nature for the attainment alu tne
Of he great purposes for when eN'eeuce ,r.rv
1bt rnltIre which regards exclusively or pilha'uy
~ ,,,a,s Al iument Of no~edee, 10 ~haV-oeNe eo
= msv be carried TO whatsoever deSrIe OF
vent II NAV BE- er abled 10 arrlye, cannot oe % :; :;
than essentially and iaiaIy ueieo~Ie 80 Instruction
No, N ne denied that hIth,rto the course OIL us "a
=; ~ ON, stems of popular education; puou0 aau
n,;vste has far eco generally aSsuueu ms viz -,
FL While the boundaries OF scien e ua'o ~. 80
II, fyfc
CO. L1owlee0e has been almost universally dlhuSeu
,tnocbnut every civilized community, no correspOnt
i'm, sSyanc. ment hiss been made III puoliS nS p, -,
-n00ralitv and virtue. On the other hahl, We a "a
sued rpon The moet unquesuonaoe auuVi"y, =, ~
- IA unfn tunatey, but lite room 20 Iouot e',o
t.c, that the increase of vice and cruic anu e d
ienee Of OLE honesty and Ct open ana seNiet ,bs
corrnntisp have been more than prOpornonaIe -.
iucrea-e Of population ana .ue Su' TSe our own.
mcd,rn ciyihzsii In community uAo 0 w. 80
u oreat mass of the population h.'e euJpyeu
,bs sdTs5-a..s OF eafIy - lsiSs -. on
curing the period ordinarily allotted 70 lnsIoh
when too such instruction u entirely tree 10 ', ""'
neatly universal in fayt-nhe,e tne aa,iou9 .Iati,n
and Il e srts especially those which have any re'suoh
10 the pursuits and wants of practical hie, hsve oeen
to ibe highest attsinAbie excellence 1t might
stead OF annually increasing should RAPIDLY and stead-
Is be diminished that high standard both 81 puohc
and private morality should prevail and mat Tue up
right the vfiuous and the good should De e5ec'uauy
secured against the depredatons or tue vicious ana
the bur len of their maintenance and support 1t this
result has not been attained the genertu us ana ample
expenditures which have been and continue 20 De- aN
shed upon the education OF the youth OF our lana pro
6uce 10 percepube moderation ia the tone Oi pup
Inc or private morals and diminish IN no peTcepuble
ratio the expenses of repe.siug and punsniug crime
or of suppress the worthless and me dlssolao-,he
inference would seem TO be legitimate one elther
that the influence of education for the impro enent
ard elevation of humanity las been overraied, or
thai il has hitherto failed i'll most imp )tant and es
senlis respect in av aiing itself OF the proper means
for the accomplishment Of its object.
Such conclusion however, would be prems'ure and
arr snted by the real facts of the case,
and unsupported by any sub.aGtial foundation IN
sound reasoning or argument from those facts The
importance of general and universal diffusion OF use
full knowledge among the citizens ol q ire o'aSe mas
not he.n and cannot be overraed It's necessary anu
ireyi,at tendency il and must be under all ana any
circumstances, to augment in steadily inc easing
ratio all those clements of individual ald social pros
f.nh IN fl.a rrnlr - Goa
tute patioua! greatness Nor is il to any considerable
extent or degree from the educated potion of the pop
ulaOn of any country that the ranks CT wee, crime
and mendicity are recruited Seldom indeed Is the
public mind startled with the announcement OF tue ar
rect Trial and conviction OF an intelligent and wel-edu-
Gated criminals and still more rare IL to hnd such an
individual dependent upon public charity TOR nam
tenance and support. The most scruunlEng and care
full examination of the records OF our criminal COURTS
prisons penientsries and slmshouses viii be found
10 establish the fact that at least ninety nine out
of every hundred on their calendars, ana PROPS
bly, much larger proportion OF the whoIe mum
Der for any given series OF years, nave never,
OF but very mperfecty, availed themselves OF
tho facilities for Education which are afforded by
cur common schools defective and incomplete IN many
respects as have been and skill are these eemen airy
institutions of learning. Not one in two hundred Oi
these cony ics in two thousand oil the inmates
of our AIN sbouses make the slightest pretensons
10 what may be termed good education, or CON-
plee and thorough cOurse of instruction. WINE there-
lore il may be true that the progress OF CRIME ana
psupt rism has increased IN fearful ana alarming
ratio TO the increase of population, and the progress OF
civilization amOns US II il also clearly demonstraOle
that his increase Is due almost exclusively to the
failure TO bring within the pale OF our educat.onai
systen that large Class of Uu population VINO stSnd
most In need of It's Cevang and retormng influenced
Ii is rot because educa10n IN the true seuss Oh lhe
term, ID universally dfused but because, practically
ana in point of fscr II - not; because thousahds ana
tens ofthousands OF those for whose intellectual and
moral culture abundant facilities have been pro-
yided have refused or omitted to avail themselves oil
these facilities.
Sill, il il not to he denied that institutions OF in
structlon pub c and private, our common schools,
acad. mics colleges and universities, are not dong
what they might aid should for the education Of those
committed 10 their charge. Much, very much, hss
indeed been accomplished through their agency IN ex'
tending the boundaries of useful and practical know
ledge and DsliDg into the minds Of the youth OF our
land those principles and imbuing them With those
habits which rightly improved aud steadily adhered TO,
will seldom fail to guard them enectually against uo
ev,ry hand in the journey Of life. That they have not
done more that education Itself has not assumed the
form end occupied the position OF the hfst aud highest
of the sciences and the nobest and BET important OF
the arts that it has not been made 10 comprehend not
only the entire circle Of practical end atanabe kn)E-
ledge but TO confer III all its amphtdde and To iis
fullest extent the power CT selfcultur6 tecontrol add
self ad that has not taken cognnance OF all
the various faculties of being, and glveo foil and
complete and harmonious deveopms MT to each, IN ac-
cordspce with the great purposes of existence here and
hereafter, that these principles and views have not
more generally been recognized and acted upOo may
readily be accounted for, though not fully JUSTIFIED,
when we consider the numerous Disadvantages and
obstacles with which even our best Institutions Of
learning are forced to contend
TIE want of an adequate and independent support,
of an iltims eonr ectOn and relation with other smi
Jar Institutions and with those Of different grade
the too rigid and iDHe1be adherence to modes of in
sruction and systems Of intellectual and moral disci
pine which the advancement of science and the prog
iess Of modern civilization have rendered l0apPc .be
70 he erist NJ sfate nf things-Lese combined with