The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-12

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"proved by the substitution SO generally of
"mental education for industrial, and the
"three RS if no industrial training has
"gone along with them, are apt, as Miss
"Nightingale observes, to produce fourth
"R-of rascaldom"
Mr.. Froude accepts with qualification
the first principle of our forefathers, that
every boy born into the world should be put
in the way of maintaining himself in hon
est independence. No education |hich
does not make this its first aim is worth
anything. The Ten Commandments are as
obligatory as ever, and practical ability
must still be the back-bo of the education
of every boy who has to earn his bread oy
manual labor. Add knowledge afterward;
"but let it be knowledge that wiW lead to the
sdoing better each particular 0ork which boy
"is practieing, and every fraction of it will
"then be useful to him" Detached facts
on miscellaneous subjects, as they are
taught at a modern school, are like separ-
ate letters of endless alphabets. But ar
range your letters into words, and each
word becomes a thought, symbol, waking
in the mind an image Of real thing.
Group your words into sentences, and
thought is married to thought and produces
other thoughts, and what were chips of
granite become soft bread, wholesome, nu-
tritious and invigorating. Teach boys SUBJ
iects which they can only remember me-
chemically, and they are taught nothing
which it is worth their while to know.
Teach them facts and principles which they
can apply and use in the work of their lives,
and if the object be to give our clever work.
ing lads chance Of rising to become Pres
idents of the United States or milloinaires,
the ascent into those conditions will be
easier and healthier than by the paths
which the NEST keenly -sharpened wits could
be apt to choose for themselves. And,
passing to the learned professions, the stu
dent should learn at the. University what
will enable him to earn his living as soon
after he leaves it as possible. The educa-
tion could not be completed at the Univer-
sity, but the theoretic or scientific ground
work could be learned nowhere so well.
Mr.. Froude proceeded to say that the prin-
ciple he advocated was Of the earth earthly;
but that as the student would not learn
everything, the only reasonable guide in
such matters was utility. The old saying
Non multa sed multum was every day becom-
ing more pressingly true.
We had theory at Oxford, said Mr.
Froude, that our system, however defec-
tive, yet developed in US some especially
human qualities. The training of clergy
men is, if anything, the special object of
Oxford teaching. There has been thirty
years of une1ampled clerical activity
among US; churches have been doubled,
theological magazines and newspapers have
been poured out by hundreds Of thousands,
while by the aide of it there has sprung up
an equally astonishing development of
moral dishonesty. From the great houses
in the City of London ''to the village gro
seer, the commercial life of England has
"been saturated with fraud. co ae.r has
sit gone that strictly honest tradesman
'oan hardly hold his ground against COM
s'petition. We have false weights, false
"measures, cheating and shoddy every
"where. Yet the clergy have seen all this
'sgrow up in absolute Indifference and the
"great question which OF this moment is
"agitatipg the Church of England, is the
"coIor Of the ecclesiastical petticoats
"Many hundred sermons have l heard in
"England, many dissertation on the mys-
"teries of the faith, on the divine mission
"of the clergy, on apostolical succession,
con bishops and justification, and the the
"ory of good works and verbal inspiration
"and the efficacy of the sacraments; but
"never during these thirty wonderful
"years, never one that l con recollect on
"common honesty or those primitive COM
..msndments-Thou shalt not lie and thou
"shalt not steal" If, said Mr.. Froude,
the clergy knew as much about England
and Scotland as about Greece and Rome,
and could see what was going on around
them instead of cropping among books to
find what men did or thought at Alexandria
or Constantinople, fifteen hundred years
ago, they would grapple more effectively
with the moral pestilence which is poison
ing the air.
Each child that is born among us, con-
tinued Mr.. Froude, has right to demand
such teaching as shall enable him to live
with honesty and take such place in
society as belongs to the faculties which be
has brought with him. Upon the breeding
which we give our children, said Mr..
Froude, depends whether England will now
descend to second place among the
nations, or whether it shall have an era of
brighter glory. Following out this line of
thought, Mr.. Frouds showed what should
be the feelings with which the immigrant
should regard his mother country, and