The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1870-10-24
A FEW HINTS.
TO PARENTS.
Dolbear's Commercial College, { founded IN
1922 Nos 164 and 166 Canal Street,
Mem Orleans

a distance to this College are not huddled |
one or TWO hundred together in q single |
house, but they are placed with good fami- |
lies, one, two, or three with one family, |
where they have the care and comforts of a
HOME, and ladies' society-and parents
get WEEKLY REP oRTs. We think it both
unwise and unsafe to send young boys out
OF their own country for an education. We
have known many such who have returned
home perfect sots and utterly ruined. 1t is
a fatal mistake to suppose that single
stranger can see to the moral training of
two or three hundred boys, better than their
parents and teachers at home or in their own
section. Parents cannot absolve themselves
from the duties which God has imposed on
Mem-and generally when they attempt it
they reap the bitter fruits of their own ne
glect by being in turn neglected by their
own children.
Our students attend what church service
they or their parents may desire. An edu-
cation consists in proper physical, moral,
intellectual, and religious training of the
faculties God has given. If all were thus
educated. we should have no pauperS or Grim
tnals. The want of this education fills our
! prisons, poor houses and asylums, and is
the blighting curse of the country. 1t is at
! tributable more to PARENTAL SUBSTITUTION
| and NEGLECT than to all other causes.
| If We complain that our children are trou-
| blesome or bad at home, be sure they will
| be twenty times worse If we send them to
| be in crowd of hundred boys night and
day with no mothers love or fathers advice
| to guide their tender years. Every one ID
| wears of age, if properly educated, can cas-
| lily earn his own living anywhere.
Too many parents economist at the eX-
| pense of their children, and think that edu-
| cation has no CASH value-and that what is
expended for their education is money
thrown away, forgetting that knoWledge is
p0,rer, and the want of it the cause of all
| rYi,,,s g1f thnr
are willing to sacrifice all luxury, all show,
and even personal ease for the practical ed
| ucation of their children. The former COM
| plain of bad and undutiful children who
squander the hard earnings of their parents.
| The latter rejoice in the love and devotion
of those to whom they have done their duty,
| and what God decreed to be both their duty
and their happiness.
THE PUBLIC OR POLITICAL SCHOOLS.
If education were left free, like merchan-
| dining, farming, law, or medicine,
| without any tax on the people, and no med
ding Of politicians, We would then have ten
times better schools than we now have, for
then persons of capital, talent, and education
| would put their money in THIS as soon as
into any other business, and l repeat, if pol
iticians would not meddle with the business
Of education, there would be $5OOOO,OOO of
IL.
and the South would have in every section
As good institutions as any in the world
They would then develop the true resources
Of the South, and we should be no longer
vassals with task masters and tax gatherers
placed over us. But at present, if one ex-
ponds $4,000 to put up College, he is taxed
and the political (nominally free school is
opened by his side to prevent his success
the State or politicians coming in as competi-
tors (using money, not their own, against
him in THIS, but in no other business. You
might as we'll impose tax to import Hava-
ma sugar or East ludia cotton, French or
New England Shoes and distribute them
) gratuitously (nominally) over the country
{ With this in,six months every cotton and SUI
, gar plantation, and every workshop over the
South would be abandoned and the whole
country Wpuld be desolate waste Yet,
this is the condition of EDUCATION in this
State and over the whole Southland ALWAYS
will be while taken in charge by politicians
mo matter what their name. The system
l. has had the effect predicted when il was
proposed to Introduce the New Eng.
land system into New York. 1t was de-
nounced as unjust toward large portion Of
the people, as a political scheme to obtain
S the money from Catholics, and Jews, &c.
&C., and compel them to adopt ideas and
pay their money against their consent Ii
was predicted it would ehd in civil war
because begun in injustice. But New York
and the whole country swallowed the sugar
coated pill, and all are now subject to New
England as was then predicted, and the
whole country is ruled mentally and phys
ically, and looks to Boston for school books
and for all ideas, with little or no concerted
!, action from the South to make her own
= books and sustain her own ideas and inter
ests. Hence the property of Boston is valued
: at about $500.000,000,-th whole country
D paying tribute.-but that OF New Orleans
d with ten times the natural advantages, at
, about one-f fifth of that amount. The public
;. school system has the effect of DESTROYING
all indiridudt interest and responsibility in
the matter, and leaving the duty of the
: whole to the care of a sew, and the directors
are usually parties who know nothing about
conducting school or college.
If it is intended to form a DESPOTlSM
and compel all to think in one way, it is the
!, best plan in the world,i it matters not wheth-
! er it is to be ONE man despotiSm or des-
potism of NUMBERS-the latter usually more
unjust than the former because NO personal
responsibility.
We forget that it is Independent thought
that is to render a country independent
prosperous and free.
If there is a tax for EDUCATION, every in
stitution, without regard to CREED or POLL
TICS. should receive of this money pro-rata
Ii education had been left free, this College
would long since have opened the Agricui-
tural and Mechanical Departments, and
9 thousands of young men would have been
: educated to analyZe soils, plants, &c.1Sc.
and cultivate lands on scientific principles.
and thus double their value, and our cotton
would have been manufactured at home and
our ships built here, thus doubling our