The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-10-09
AMERICAN
What tho Sage OF Chappaqua Thinks
About It.

AT hulZLOWn, FeunsyiVanla, Oh Wouueeuao,
Mr.. Greeley made two speeches, one on edu-
cation and one on agriculture. The follow
Ing is a synopsis OF the one on education de-
lIvered before the Normal School:
Education, my young friends, has Its legl-
tImate objects, the development OF the man or
woman, Intellectually or mentally, and the
development OF the workman. when l advo-
care the proeaic side OF the question OF educa-
From the days OF Plato 1t has been under
stood that education makes the man, and his
fitness for the exigencles Of the world will
come after. I have known not lees than q
thousand thoroughly educated-that is,
extensively educated men, IN New York
men who have entered German or English
or American colleges, and have been sent
forth with diplomas, who are yet utterly
unable 10 carr their bread, and are to-day
pacing the stony streets In o vain search for
something TO do. I consider 1t the feproach
and shame of education that while every
robust, temperate ignoramuS that lands upon
our shores with money enough 70 buy an
Is morally certain to earn his bread. TO De
come In time a thrifty citizen, his children
being heirs to all the possibilities Of our con-
ditIon, the educated man ls not 30 certain.
Nv condemnation of education Is that 1t is
not complete, it is not fully rounded. It does
not prepare us for the e2igencies OF lille. The
German student, who has become dyspeptic
over his midnight art, who can discourse
vet has not been taught how to earn his
bread. When I say my daughters ought to be
scientific cooks, l do not mean that cooking 10
the chief end OF wOmanhood, for some women
have aspirations 10 become lawyers and even
presldents.it is getting on to that END, i
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES / mean that they
should have some accompaniment 10 peslec.
ont Of fashion. A bad education sends mar
into the world useless. Educated men, while
thew are capable OF better work than mere
mammal labor. ought, In the absence Ot that
better work, to be able to do the manual work
better than the uneducaied man. 1t they have
10 dig bitches, they ought to dig them better
than the ignorant q When od men are
education, they say they don't know about II.
This education is not efficient In their sphere
of life. A farmers son ought to come back
from college qualified to show his father how
better to work bis farm. II not; II he returns
with q great deal OF philosophy ana mathema,
mans comprehension, such education Is like
IL to be undnly disparsged. We ought TO ex-
bend more money than we do now on edu-
cation, but we must make the people who
paw the money realize the good IN educa-
lion. I am told that the higher and more
abslruse studies are an excellent discipline
for the mind. But why will not more
eo)Id truths, less out OF the way truths,
serve as q discipline as well as these l have
been forty-six years away from school. l
never had a,eght but q common education.
NV i've might have been more useful and bet
ter otherwise, for I have travelled all over
this earth, from the Adrlatic Sea on the east
to the Pacific Ocean on the west, and every day
I have deplored the want OF knowledge OF
chemistry and geology as | walk dumb and
blind amid the wonderful works of Gods crea-
lion across plains which spoke with Gods
eloouence, which my limited education pre-
vented me from enjoying. I had no other
lime tor schooling than In the winters OF ths
frat ten years of my youth. l never saw du-
ring that time q book on chemistry or geologyy
never knew that such books existed, and
feel now that nv lie would have been more
useful and more enjoyable If I had had time
and the chance to study them. Learn all we
will, we are still imperfectly taught. Let inc
little that the student may know, then, irradl-
ate the path just about him. Wnen graouases
ssy II am educated, and therefore cannot WORK
with INV hands, y they are miseducated. We
are educating young people out OF use
mlness. The true nan will do the best work
thai TODAY presents to him. Labor 10 becom-
mo with our advanced civilization more In
teiiectual and less physical. In 9 lew years
steam will supply all the physical forces Oh IN
dusLry. The noblest dulles are teacnlng us
now more rapidly to create these new pro-
cesses. and In tinae all the forces required Will
6e furnished by artificial power. But do not
disparage the no ends of education. The man
Ia. after all, the thing to be perfected. The
university student must have bread, and
knoWledge of the old philosophers ID not
readily turned into bread. ! would nave no
man sent out not qualided to earn his living
by bis hands, II need be. ! would have each
Graduate a better armed man, 80 that II he
we're wrecked on q desert island he could get
along all the better for his education. would
have education brIsLling with good points, 80
tnat. encased in 1t, he could the better meet q
charge of cavalry. an attack of artillery or Of
bayonets, or any attack in which the emer-
eencles oflife MAJ present themselves. This,
Young people, Is my conception of what edu-
cation ought to be.