The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-07-21
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A strong movement IN the direction o.
a National Buresh Of Education is now
agitatiqg- the oopntFy. It's, authors pro.
pose 70 establish q. national system ot
Schools, in place OF our somewhat bete-
rogenedus State systems, and from the
best and ablest pupils of these schools, "a
fill up all vacancies. ia out military and
naval academies. aid all public positions
subject 70 executiYe appointment. Many
Suppose this 70 be . new i9ea.E. But hu-
mainly moves in spirals5 i not ia circles:
there Is 'noEbing neE unaeF he sur 3
When old Marco Polo 6rst visited Chi
ma, some two hUhdred years before Coz
lumbus was boTny be fancieCi that the true
secret of social order was found at last.
Here was a nation with a purely patri
2rchal government, whose members only
knew the EN- 7eror astheir father, among
whom mendicancy was unknown, aud
whose highest civil and military positions
were within. the reach of all ranks of pso-
pie, the only requisite being high grade
of scholarship. ~ -. ,.e,dr=
Subsequent explorations, while veri,
flying the letter of Marco Polo's state,
ments, have modified their spirit very
decidedly. 1t is true that the Chinese
colleges are open to all ranks of people,
ard the msndarins aud other officers are
appointed from among the most success.
full pupils; but when we. examine into
the course of study, our enthusiasm abates
very suddenly. The years of college
training are mostly spent in the study Of
the Chinese CIassics-lhe aphOrisms OF
ConfuciUs, and vast collections of child
ish mythologies. OF special preparatio n
for the public duties they will be called
unos to !, ->siorm, those students receive
Absolutely ,iatniSo. We can easily pred:
icate the result. ChiSSAse government
is one gigantic system of bluG4c'' stu :
pidities; Chinese science is but supers,,
tons and empirical alchemy; Chinese lit
erature and art, only patchwork of Outre
grotesquerie
The consequence is, that English and
Continental travellers and writers have
missed no opportunities for ridicaiing the
Chinese systems of education and are new
er weary of caricaturing the. manners aud
customs of their Celestial brethren. But
let US see whether they themselves are
doing much better; whether the boon1s
rangs which they throw al China, do not
come circlipg round to strike their own
heads; whether the stones they huh at
their nsighbopsj do not rebound, and
chatter the panes of their own glass
houses. ..s --.as .rs -is.u-y
From among the sous of the wealth
Ter classes of England, spring members
of Parliament, cabinet MINISTER'S N agis-
trates, civil and military officers. landed
proprielors, ,owners ofmining and manu-
featuring interests, To their charge is
committed the social, political, and indus
trial we'll being of the nation. Aud how
are they fitted for these great trusts
The young Euglishmsn spendsleight years
at Elon or Rugby in preparing 10 en4er
the Uniyersty;and almog ais entire Ia
Dor during this time is. devoted 70 Latin,
Greek, Mathematics, and Literary Crit
eism. When he enters OxGoEdslt is only
to rePes5 the same style of WORK. He
graduates, and is supposed to have EeceiY
ed the education proper for gehllSman
A certain scholarly dignity and poiisb, I
facility in oratorical aud literary compo
sition, wealth of classical illusions anc
quotations, are the neutrality-suspicious.
lie knows sll about the matamorphose
IF Ovid, but the wayain which beef ant
beer are metamorphosed iuto blood. i
probably a sealed mystery. He inheritt
a great immortal estate, on which a3thous
and men are tilling the soil; but OF tina
very soil, its elements, its qualities, 1t
capabilities, he very frequently knows les
4 than the. peasaAtr who digs has bitches
He becomes the oWper of city of loom
and spindles, and pockets their profit
without one elementary conception of th
physical forces that control their motions
or the chemical reactions taking place i
his dyeing- watts and furnaces. y He vote
in Parliament upongques.ions Of peace o
1War3 tariff or free trade, abridged or ex
I dended suffrage. and this often Withou
any justIknoWledge of the political econ
somy aud history Of the natious. ITh
I bene!setorss Of the raee-the men who's
lcrsative gems has made mankind bette
!. and bappier-are not s pug from tn
stock! 1t was amid tod and legssEc u
4 the workshop, the garrett andihe howell
! that such men as WATT ArkpWight, Ste
vensou, Brodieg DaYy, Newton. Harvey
4 Reynolds and F1axman,1 wrought iRt
! material forms their grand inspirations
And can ace boast Of very much be
ter state of things Who has forgotte
the old2log school house, where his lu6g
were pinched and his spine curved G
backless seats of torture;-where he spel
y tiresome years, principally devoted =.
studying the STORE part of the spehinj
b0ok e followed. perhaps, by geograpt
without maps, (leatued by singing J. at
cipheriug in Double P oeition' :. and d
:, D !" Rule of Three very spossibly7spendil
.et the last six weeks of the session in pr
d pairing for an old style exhibition, He
; many. young men are every year gradu
81 ted from our western aud eastern college
who NAV be vastly proficient IN Gree