Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-09-02
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RYEsXfHE on HDUCATION.

But for the individual it has often been regarded
more rs luxury for which he has to pay, rather
than the best Of Ill properties which It i possible
for father to give his child, or iabors BY which
young man can begin to acquire his own fortune.
But take strong, hearty labcrng man, without
any education at al-one who is not to read or
WRITE nor acquainted with any trade nor instructed
in any handicraft employment whatever. Suppose
him to be honest and truthful and willing to do his
best, yet how much would he be work more than
his boardp If he knew something Of farm work,
and has had experience in horses, he might still be
hired by the year many parts of the State for go
. month and his board, which might be called IA
much more.
Blu, let him have good common school education,
that be could read, write and cypher, be can, as
. salesman or in teaching, easily earn $3.50 year
at once; that is $500 year long he lives, for
his education. Suppose. him to pass through Col
lege respectfully, and he can at once get from $3.50
to $500 as an engineer or surveyor or teacher. 50
that college education makes . man worth $500
year more so long as he lives, than if be had not
enjoyed it. We say nothing in all this of the secu-
rity it affords against crime and disgrace, nothing
to the superior character Of the friends and compan
ions it will bring round him, and who can and will
help him to situations Of trust and honor. We say
nothing of the larger number Of qualifications and en-
joyments Of innocent and improving character it
would open up betrre him. But speak only Of the
immediate and direct pecunlary advantage.
Surprising young man at 81 years of age 10 have
accom- 2lished this; the Chester Life tables would
show us that he has expectation Of living up
wards of forty years-that of receiving in return for
it, in hard cash. $780, at the rate Of $400a year.
Surprising that commencing at fifteen it costs him
two years to prepare for college, and four years to
60 through and that each>year he spends 5000 more
than he earns, that is 1890, and the Interest,"
With diligence he can teach school, study profes
sion, and pay all this off in three years. After that
he has certain income that il better than any other
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far than it would be TO put sc. 900 into the hands
of the average Of young men at 81 or even at "a.
But the most importan: advantage Of an educa-
ton is. that it multiples mans power of useful
ness and Of acquiring wealth at much greater ratio
in proportion it is combined with other qualities.
and as he advances in years or his physical powers
decay.
For instance, take completely uneducatedman,
and it is only his honesty and his physical industry
that gives his labor any value in commercial point
of view. He can perhaps NOV, or he can reap SO
much land per day, and he will not rob at night
But every new moving and reapng machine intro
duced, can do his work better and more quickly,
and this yearly diminshes the value of his labor
But on the contrary, all these improvements in the
value Of educated labor that is of The mechanic who
can calculate as well work; the machinist who
can form patterns and adapt machinery to all the
wants of civilized life, becomes every year more in
demand and better paid and the architect and engi-
neer of high ability receive yearly immense in
comes.
When education is combined with great physical
powers it often more than doubles the value Of BOTH
The man who cam with the same hand, draw the
plan of building and assist in its execution direct
ing each workman, often makes thousands thus, and
the artillery officer who estimate the weak points
Of an enemy, and then charge at the head Of his
men, thinking with the wsest and fighting with the
bravest that man justly deserves the rank and pay
Of a dozen mere fighting men, or mere thinking men
either. -.+
But it is where, in addition to this the highest
moral qualities also combined, that the value of
education is chiefly apparent. That sefcommand.
honor and strict integrity which enables man to
lead and combine the wills of others and make him
trustworthy by all, when united with qualities, pro-
duce character the value Of which pecuniari-
~ it seems at times impossible to estimate. Edgar
Poe possessed brilliant intellect and the highest
powers, but died beggar. simply from a terrible
lack of all moral power Of self control Arnold
brave, and Aaron Burr was able, bnt the want Of
moral principle ruined The prospects and power Of
each Of them. But in the character of Washington,
we have Of the finest combinations of the three
in history. Physically active and strong, his intel
lectuai powers, though not brilliant, we're more
solid than those Of Burr, and his uniformity and lof
ty simplicity and integrity combined to form char.
acter that made hun worth to the country and to the
history of the world, what money can estimate.
But what would Washington have been without the
study of mathematics, and without his combined
education in the woods q surveyor, and in the
field as a soldiers An honest American gentleman,
like hundreds Of others, it education, combining
and cementing into unit his noble powers, that
gave the value to the man.
ToucHlNG THEN IN THE POCKET NERVE. All the
accounts we have from Northern watering places
this represent them as being unusually dull Except
the Peabody tete given by Mr.. Wetmore, where two