The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-02-21
THE. PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

4 Public Education to the General Assembly
Iof Louisiana. Mr.. Lusller has set to work
Iindushiously to reorganize the Public
|School System of the State, andif any man
canbring anything out Of it, he is the man
to do it.
! But while We have the highest respect
for Mr.. Lusher, and believe him as well
qualified for his position as any man that
could be found, we are opposed to the
whole system from beginning to end. The
1 Report before us shows that the benefits
conferred BY the publicischools,on thepeo-
pie ofthe State are byno means proper
tionate to the immense outlay required to
support them. In short, public Education
lin Louisiana, being an exotic Of Yankee
vegetation, has never fourished in this eli
Innate, and,never will flourish. The Public
schools are failure, and always VII be, a
failure. We take it that the highest aim
lof Fdncotion is to improve the moral char
acter Of youth, and to instil into their
minds ibosa nr;nci,;Ias If trntl, and iustice
which will n,ake tbap,t u pfplmembers offbe
society IN which thov move, Now. if can
ho shown Nv statistics That The Pnblic
cohooI cu.ton, &c tho No,tb ;s ond evor
h., hoon n,rsorv or Woo and tbot 60 far
from diminishing, it has ever been the fruit
lful producer of crime and immortality w.
Even five should not enter into d close
jipspeetiDp Of the system, and point out the
,n;na,to moon Voc = v v within Il yin,y
Of the GRAND result oftbe Yankee Educa-
fiona, ,svst am il anoua, 4 q. oonvince any
ono That tbera IA sonefbinu rotton Mt the
bottom oft For we must ramambar that
| If ;s IN eaaeated Massachusetts Connect
out o,a othar Markham States TINT bove
orioi ,tad Il nast wears III that fanot;c;sm
and i,l;her,l;tv-of shirt towards Tho soutb
which have eliminated in the cutting. Of
their brother's tbroats andIhaye overwbelp,-
oil the South with run and desolatioa L
4 svstem which conld nrofuce such = 80
ciaI fabric must be e radically wrong, and one
which other communities shonld be slow TO
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d;sro,,.rd ofmorol Qualifications; II tbo co
lection of teachers "a ! necesssorv copso.
fueace the moral sentiments Of tbe tendar
Young entrusted to their, care must RIM I'd
waste 4 n il not surnrisino therefore that
sd MANY startling Instances Of Youthful vice
and denraviiv are traced to the institutions
which bave boan estahl;sbod for tba;r NOR.
| i and inertia, tra;ni,,g The LEADING na a.,
IN rh;,o,,c- ro.on,l,, called attention 70 Tho
faot mt a ba pphl;c seshoo,s ofsfIbieooo
have beco,ae .I,etbed sCof, vice and anv how
Of fonrteap wears attend;no tbern * .laokad
upon as q preenhorn ifh has not had a
| laisoant y with sS some Of the girls" MANY
leading papers in Ohio and Indiana
commenting on tbis ,,ecla,ation assert
that the case is nrohablv the same in Tho
cities in which thew are sevyerallv publish.
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