Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-09-16
North-Carorina Journal of Education.

NOrth.CarOIlna Journal of Education.
We copy and most heartily endorse the following
article from the pen of friend Robinson, of the
Goldsborough Tribune, commencing the NORTH
Carolina Journal Of Education" to the attention
and patronage Of the people of the State.
The publication of the Journal will certainly be
commenced and it will be for the friends of educa-
ton in the State to sustain it. to stand by supine
ly and see it go down. Will they pursue the latter
course? Surely, surely not. Five or six hundred
subscribers will place it on firm basis but jour-
nal of the kind designed to be published ought to
number its subscribers by thousands.
The cause of education appeals in trumpet tones
to every man, woman and child in the State. Do
you wish to your sons respected, and lifted up
in the scale of humanity. and would you put the
means for acquiring fortune in their hands, or at
least for sustaining themselves creditably in the
great struggle Of life ?-then educate them-educate
them. Educate them thoroughly, mentally and NOR
ally, and it will be worth to them than rolls
of bank notes or bags of gold They will rise up
and bless you when you are in your graves; and
they will do for their children what you have done
for them, thus pouring down upon posterity the
floods of light and the of exaltation and joy,
the fountains of which first unsealed by your
hands If you can send them to academies and COL
leges do but if you not able to do that, send
them to the common schools The State has provided
for all her children, and she will provide still
abundantly for them as her means increase. Re-.
member, that the work which you pay "the mas
ter" to do on the mind of your child will never de.
cay. 1t will grow brighter by use, and it will cleave
to him when every thing else forsakes him. 1t is
immortal work. The parent who neglects his child
will suffer for the neglect-aye suffer such heart
aches neither time gold can alleviate cure
Get houses and lands, get money, get stocks, get
your barns full of produce and boast if you will Of
your cattle. your farms, and your moneys at inter-
est but above ALL get instruction for your children.
Give them less while you are living, and leave them
less when you are dead, that you may educate them
more. This, good readers, is sound advice; and we
trust that for your sakes for the sake of your
children, and of our dear old State, you will re-
ceve it and act upon it in the same spirit in which
it is rendered 1t proceeds from one who feels deep
" on the subject having himself when boy en-.
oyed very limited advantages in thisrespect and who
but for the common or 'sold field school, instead of
being able to address you through the columns of
this newspaper. might never have learned even
the alphabet Of his mother tongue. 'ea5
The "North- Carolina Journal Of Education, :"
viii be an important auxiliary in the cause of edu-
cation in the State Subscribe for it. It's sole OBJ
ject Is the public good. No sinister Or selfish mo-
tive is connected with it. Those who have it in
charge do not wish to make money out of it, and
indeed we know they would scorn to do so if they
could. The first thing to be done is to establish it
on solid basis after which, If there should be any
profits, they will be disposed Of for the benefit of
the cause of education by the State Educational As
ISOLATION. .1I7 - s4ss:.
Terms-$2 for one copy, and $40 for six copies
to one address. All communications should be ad.
dressed to 1.-THE Editor Of the Journal Of Eauca:
tion," Greensborough, North-Carolina. y, g,,..
The following IS the article Of our contemporary Of
the Tribune, to which references has been made
"THE NoRTH-C CAROLINA JoURNAL OF EDUCATION.
The din Of politics being over for season turn we
our attention, kind reader to the interests of our
children. The education of the young. including
their mental and moral training should be object
the heart of every lover Of refinement and So
cial order. Who wishes TO be the father of an dg-
norant hayward child! Who would see his Off
spring the snbject6fths sheriffs lash the inmate
Of q. prison! Who would make his house the abode
ofwfetchedhess and shame and sorrow black ngrat-
itude and gaunt faminel Who would bequesth to
his children "a inheritance Of vice and its necessary
consequences degradation and miseryl Who
would pension his sons on the, alms-house and his
daughters the house Of refuge! None no, not
not onel Thank heaven! the law of nature con.
strains to love onr yoffsprng, sptwines abund
them our purest affections, and prompts ussin ah
that do speak, or think to consul. their hap
piness and promote their welfare.
But our object is not to point out merely the du-
ties of parents to their children-these, however