The New York herald., 1869-05-06

will take the initiative in the organization OF
party which can within three years sweep
away the existing ones with all their obsolete
IDEAS dictatorial proceedings and corruptions.
Educa,ioual rrogress-The school Commits
sioners, Old and New.
The members of the Board of Education OF
this city, as organized under the old law LOT
the control and discipline OF our pubic
schools, held their last session yesterday even
ing. The proceedings, as will be seen from
our report, were of very interesting charac-
ter, some of the representatives retiring from
this wide and important sphere OF public duty
while others have been called upon to continue
to give the benefit of their experience to the
rising generation under the simple yet com
prehensive and pointed measure drafted py
Mayor Hall and passed by the Legislature on
the 30th ult., which is to supersede 1t under
his magisterial management. This document,
with the appointments, appears also In our
columns in the shape of memoranda" filed by
the Mayor in his Office at the time OF making
the appointments of School Commissioners
A careful perusal of this paper will show
that his Honor is duly conscientiously
impressed with the responsibility which
rests on him as an executive officer to
see that our school system is administered
faithfully, impartially and intelligently, as
there are few men in the community who have
known such lamentable consequences, both to
families and society at large, flowing from the
defective or ill-directed education of youth, as
he has in his professional capacity. The new
commission is made up of gentlemen taken
from almost every class of industrial pursuit In
the metropolis; men who, as an associated unit.
will each contribute useful hints, derived from
practical experience of everyday life, for the
further reform and elevation of our school
system, not merely in the routine method of i'm
parting instruction to the young, but how it
should be conveyed so as to be permanently
useful and at the same time retain the mems
sana IN c0rpore s0aao of the men and women
who are to succeed us.
In this list of Commissioners Of Common
Schools we find the we'll known name of Isaac
Bell, one of the Commissioners of Charities
and Correction, an able and devoted social
reformer, the friend of the orphan and home
less, careful adviser of youth approach
ing 10 adolescence, one who has always
held out words of hope even to the most
degraded, directing personal correction with
a firm leniency when needed. Next is Richard
L. Larremore, president Of the board just
dissolved, lawyer and man given to inces-
SAINT work in the school Improvement cause,
and writer of repute on the subject of public
| education Messrs. Thomas Murphy, ex-
| Senator; William Wood, banker; Nathaniel
| Sands, Magnus Gross, editor; Lorin Inger-
| soil, manufacturer; Samuel A. Lewis, broker !;
| Timothy Brennan, ten years Commissioner |;
John H. Sherwood, builder; Bernard Smythe,
| Receiver of Taxes, and William E. Duryee,
| present a Commissioner from the Fifth ward.
| This commission will enter on its duties at
the expiration of ten days from the passage OF
the bill and hold Office to the last day of De-
cember, in the year 1871, any vacancy occurring
in the meantime to be filed by the Mayors
appointment. The constitution of this board
its Instructions, aim and object cannot fail tc
impart satisfaction and hope to the parents
residing in this-the great American metro
polls. But we may here with prOpriety
say that the complete realization o.
the hopes, both of our legislators and
the gentlemen who give their services tc
| secure it by a more complete system Of public
schools, depend almost entirely on the exer.
tions of the parents themselves. They have
| IN SET, that there are no more truants thu
! Commissioners and teachers will exert them
selves so that we may have no more rowdies
Tho txam,,le set by the inhabitants of New
| York imn~esaes, for good or evil, the morals o
tho neonle o.e she country at large. The radi
cal cure for tbet vices Of society which lead t.
or;ro IN our mid'a can be found only in tn
primary school anu in front of the teacher
desk. Our citizens ! 're liberal in their outla.
in s'this" direction, and We sincerely nope tina
they will soon behold the l. NIiatlon OF an edu
cational era which will const Iute oy its lrui'
a period Of repayment. BY q CONSTITUTIONS
avoidance of the latitudinarianl sm Oh Tn
French schools, the national hobbies o. 'he uer
man institutions, the managerial defects VI vi
English board, the deficiencies of the 'isl
system; but examining, and perhaps culling o,
ideas from the working of the Belgian plan,
we entertain firm belief that the public
schools of New York will soon become chan
nels of the most refined enlightenment and
public utility.
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