The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1865-12-07

shoHtd 6e addressed to the Educational Editor
of The AAsghanian
EDUcATIoN.-Strictly speaking, the
word education signifies to expand, develop.
a man may properly be called educated
whose powers have received their full de-
velopment by whatever means, but espe-
ctally by discipline, instruction and exne-
rlence. 30 that the various attributes of
the mind are fully expanded, whether by
one means or another, it is sufficient. All
the various powers of the mind. intellect.
imagination, sentiment, language, memo
ry, dIscerEment, cannot by any possibility
receive their highest attainable expansion
IN any one man, nor is it in such a sense
that we speak. But when some one of
the chief of these, more especially the in
telect, is developed in any person to the
fullest extent that nature las made II
possible for such Development to take
place, and the other faculties are subordi-
mated and brought into harmony with the
chief, then education may be considered
complete. A man is an intellectual, per
cepuve, religious, and passionate animal.
Education may make him most prepon-
deraDtly intellectual, or religious, or pas
| sionate: But in doing this, it will MAKE
him lop-sided, deformed, hateful. It's
true scope is to preserve proper equilib-
rum between his various powers, and
preserve them as nature and God first
framed .hem.
Where do we get education ? Tn
schools Z! Perhaps. Some of it. Abra-
ham Lincoln was an educated man. His
learning was small, it's true, but all the
difference between his education and that
of more polished man consisted in the
fact that he received his in the schools of
adversity, the other of learning He had
intellect, ana he could use it, He lad SEN
timent, and he could apply it. He had
passions, and he could feel. He had
powers, and they were expanded until
their possessor became type, a model,
IN truth, in candor, In vigor, in love of
the good and noble, of whom none need
be ashamed. Yet he had not the learning
of the schools. Had he had. he might
have been greater and more useful But
| he was great and useful without 1t.
In every city aud village, boys go TO
school in the daytime and acquire knowl-
edge, anG at night get their .education.-
| In daytime, It's study, at night It's devil
try. In daytime It's little knowledge,
at night It's an acquiring of vice, blunt
ing Of all sense of justice by violating the
peace Of others, the principles of rectitude
or ways of morality. Some men acquire
learning in colleges and pass into death
devoid of right education Bacon by
means of the schools filled his mind with
knowledge, but so failed to develop or ed
ucate himself into true majestic manhood
that his high Office, the lOrd-chancellor-
ship of England, brought him disgrace
instead of honor. Franklin in his spare
moments, poor printer-boy, without the
lore of the schools, acquired knowledge
and education, an education that made
him an honor to his nation and the world
| When his country sought a man, the fit
test man in all America, to be its repre-
sentative, 1t found no other man than
Franklin SO becoming a symbol of all that
goes to make up q man. So the poor
printer-bo walked among princes, stood
before kings, commanded the respect, the
admiration Of all, Influenced peoples.
moved thrones, secured essential foreign
aid for his country in her first hours, aud
gave the Republic of the New World
pldSC ialiOnS, WITHOUT MIN
America would have had no republic a
Latin proverb says good man is an or
nanent to his friends aud country. But
Franklin was an ornament to his friends,
his country, and his race. For not the
glitter, not the grandeur of an imperial
court could make him anything else in SEN
timent, anything else in his expressions
than simple republican. That very de-
votioD to principle into which be had
educated himself gave to his character its
great dignity.
Picture model man, the primeva' man
if you choose, strong in intellect, but not
so strong as to make him shut his eyes
that he may do nothing but think, strong
in Doble passion but not debased in lust,
ennobled by religion but not degraded by
superstition, lively in imagination though
not reveling in visions, fluent to attrac-
tiveness in language yet not darkening
| counsel by multitude OF words. To fash
ion out such man is the tendency of all
true education. And may America have
| many such.
WEDDING NNIvERsARIEs The fiftlI