New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-01-27

We commend to our readers the report, prn led
| in another column, of the Select Committee of the
| Board of Education on the NOn-a.tendince of
Children at the Public Schools" 1t substant ally
advocates the plan, which bias 80 frequently been
urged by THE TRIBUNE. First, it proposes the
employing Of e1isting organization, fer the educa-
tion Of vsgrant children both for the sake of econ
ony and because in this peculiar field Of educa-
&" lion, private and individual cooperation is inds-
| pensable" In this view the report suggests the
aiding of the different Industrial Schools already
established in such way as to place them on a
permanent basis and to bring them under the super
vision of the Board.
Secondly, it recommends the opening OF a series
Of Primary Industrial Schools These schools are
more especially adapted for the class of poor and
ysgrant children, so that by various mssns these
shsll be attracted in. We are glad TO see the sug
geslion Of bath to be connected with these schools
The truth u.s. every one of our schools for the
Younger aud poorer children ought to have such a;
compartments. The gain in general he nth to the
city would well repay the outlay. The Committee
have opposed any furnishing of meals to such child
reD, on The wise ground that such support, though
advisable in private ociation would be attended
with the worst results in public organization and
would become only an encouragement of pauperism.
The report further advises the employment of
visitors to Gull and select the proper pupils for such
schools and to 90 about on the docks and through
the places which this class frequent, and induce
them to come into The classes. To avoid unneces-
saIy expene il is suggested that the visitors already
employed for similar purposes by the Children's
Aid Society and other phianthrOpic organizations,
be engaged for this object-a proportiOnate share
Of their salaries being paid by the Board of Edo
cation.
This seems 10 US wise and not too expensive
arrangement, and is substantially the same as that
suggested BY Mr.. Green, the President Of the
Board, in bis Annual Address There is no doubt
that some such arrangement is indispensable TO
bring in the idle, begging and theying s.reet.chl.
drep. Their parents must be spoken to by these
visitors; they themselves must be taken By the
hand ard led or carried TO the schools, and their
peculiar hsunts must be sough. out by these be-
nevoltnt individuals, and the little candidates Tor
the prisons and gallows brough: under some better
tonal visitation, which has produced such wonder
full result in our educational mission tablsh.
meDts for the same class. A merely mechanical
school stem viii not do for the street children OF
New.Yuk. Peculiar moral and individual mo.
lives must be brought to bear on each poor
family sLd poor child. There should be persona
interest and sympathy in the management of the
school, so that moral reform as well as educi-
uonal Improvement Dsy be the result.
The Report, as its last suggestion, urges the
more vigorous application of the Trusnt law, the
particular features Of which it briefly states. This
is well. The law should be executed, aud it would
DO wonders fit were; but, practically, when would
our ehcien. policemen take the trouble to catch
little truans and send them to school They do
not We. catch old rogues, even urder reward, aud
how is it 10 be expected that they should take
young ones, with the prospect of beisg laughed at
for their psia,l There is no reason Low, in point
Cf law, why the Juvenile Asylum should 40. arres!
aud he'd eTsy vsgab NJ DO, ia iae siSess. L. doe,