The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-09-03
COLUMBIA.
Tuesday Morning, Sept. s. 1857
.Education at enc south

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Education mt tho south.
The season is approaching for the
Te-opening Of our schools, and the
advertising columns Of the Pho,aic,
as well as most of our Southern CO.
,temporaries, give evidence of an in
creased interest in the subject of edu-
cation, and of superior facilities for
the education of youth, both in the
elementary and moro advanced de-
partments. Schools for children,
academies to prepare pupils for col
.lege or university. or for.the practical
business duties of life, are rapidly
multiplying oil through the Southern
States, while the higher institutions
of learning are fast recovering from
the disastrous effects Of the late war.
1t is truly sad to reflect how many of
our young men have, from the de-
pleting influences of four years civil
strife, forever been deprived of the
advantages of liberal education;
but this fact should stimulate our
energies and efforts to promote the
great cause of education of the youth
who have the opportunity left to fit
themselves for the future citizens of
the country.
One great advantage to be noted
in our Southern country is, that we
have a large accession of superior in
structors in every department, from
the fact that many whose means, in
the past, enabled them to avail them
selves of the educational benefits
conferred by the best institutions Of
learning in the country, have, by. the
vicissitudes of fortune, been con-
strained to offer their services as
teachers. And no nobler profession,
no more useful employment, could
demand the services of these Eaccom-
plished laborers in the field of educa-
tion, from teaching the alphabet to
the demonstration of q mathematical
problem. All in their respective
spheres contribute to the great work
of training our sons and daughters
for the important duties and respon-
abilities of life. The ACCESSION of
such q class of instructors as we have
referred to-, will, moreover, preclude
the fancied necessity of sending our
children elsewhere to receive what
has been called o frst-class and ac-
complished education. Especially
will this be the case in regard to fe-
male education, for it is to be OBJ
served that many ladies of the high
est station, and who have been fitted
for the duties they now assume at
the best institutions in the country,
North and South, are now Offering
themselves as instructors.
In our own State, from the Uni
versity of South Carolina down to
the primary schools, We have not, in
long experience, observed such
rare facilities for the education of her
youth. The different schools of the
University are oil directed by compe-
tent professors-men in whom our
people have the utmost confidence,
both as regards ability and fidelity
while the preparatory schools are not
surpassed anywhere. Our people are
deyotedly attached to their State and
the promotion of her best interests,
and in no way can these be more
effeetually subserved than by sus-
tanning her educational institutions.
The necessity for the quest of
higher style of education has passed
away, we hope, forever, and every
interest of patriotism, every dictate
OF State pride, should impel us to
elevate and keep in the first rank the
institutions of learning in South
Carolina. If we do not this, with
returning prosperity among our peo-
ple-if we do not now maintain our
own schools and colleges-we can
expect nOthiuO a1ea hut n rot,,r,, 30