The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-10-04
EDrJCATIONAL.


1t is lamcntabe fact that the late war exercised
disastrous influence on the education of the rising
generation not only learning them many things
whereof ignorance is bliss, but forbidding them
from pursuing those branches Of knowledge cal
culated to prepare them for the various possessions
for which they had designed themselves. AT the
close of the late strife, institutions were not In
condition to meet the demands of those who
sought to redeem portion Of the valuable time
they had lost and few of those younger ones
whose refugee days are over, or whose experience
among the Reserves is at end, are ready to
press forward in the ways of learning and be fitted
to fill the vacancies made by the last generation
Advanced age and depleted purses, renders time
exceedingly valuable to the youth of the South,
and they have need of the best of advantages to
accomplish satisfactorily their desires We want
system of education that is exceedingly thorough,
and calculated to completely achieve its object in
giving finished education; but, like the French
system, in all points, is directed towards the pro-
fesson for which the student is destined And
we would have American parents initiate the
French, in this: educate their children from the
beginning, for o particular profession, and not
effect of which will be, to produce men perfected
in the branch they have undertaken, and every
way prepared to do it credit.
We we're pleased to see the South Carolina COL
lege enlarged to University, and we hope that
it will be speedily perfected in all its parts. If so
nj nd oh1o fho
student to direct his time and energies to the ac
ouisition of such knowledge, as will be profitable
to him in the particular calling which he is to fol-
low. AS far as possible, we would have the French
system pursued In France, the boy is placed at
school at the age of seven years. From this time,
until the age of seventeen, he is prepared for the
degree of Bachelor of Letters to take which degree
they are required to be proficient in Latin and
Greek History, Geography, Rhetoric, Literature,
Mental Philosophy, Cosmography and the out
lines of the Physical Sciences At eighteen years
of age he takes the degree of Bachelor of Arts for
which he is required to know Arithmetic, Algebra,
Elementary Geometry, Trigonometry, Descriptive
Geometry in part, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry,
Natural History, Geography and Modern History,
Mental Philosophy, Latin and Modern Language
So fur the course has been general and the student
is regarded very fair scholar; but having finished
what are termed elementary studies, he is ready to
take up those branches especially designed to fit
him for the profession for which he is destined. If
it is law or medicine, the student is put forward in
his literary studies, and placed in one of the
schools devoted to those subjects. it is the arts
and manufactures, that he desires to enter, he
spends two years in the study of special mathe-
matics, physics and chemistry, and is then fitted
to enter one of the great schools of engineering;
and so of oil the other professions, theory and
practice are combined. Such system We would
have in. our State University, pursued
with great deal of system, each part of it thor
oughly treated before being left, and the student
not too much hurried.