The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-10-24
rTov EDUcATHON-
N,,t.to,en, Pennsylvania

R,eso,en, Pennsylvania.
Wednesday, Mr.. Gree
soen. o. % ~ the faculty and the
pfsseil55sa =, address on education
se.l'1lawing is a mere synopsis ;
rur xoRMAL SCHOOL
y : o,ng friends, has its le-
n5 he development of the
iseis .,,psllectually or mentally,
lsao. lhe oont of the workman.
f'eiep the prosaic side of the
,lY9e2k 'n 7 do not mean to dis
siac r. r.rnm the days of Plato
ala 'a sar the exigencies of the
ess l ~ | have known not
esils a1g thoroughly educated
gf1easgsIIl educated men, In New
s5sas'etb.. I've entered German or
= wy .rican colleges, and have
= with diplomas VINO are YET
oIiA !" earn their bread and are
s = no stony streets in a vain
sslbr Ting TO do. | consider IL
-9hl's1 sb9me of education that
"A 80. temperate ignoramus
.aan our shores win money
a0a IN axe is morally certain TO
s9l3 !" become in time thrifty
fa taJ,en being heirs to all the
t4' AR condition, the educated
q certain.
~. ri not fully rounded. It
are rs for the exigencies of
5a,sn student. who has become
lis midnight art. VINO can
s.s-.e9lg of Kant, of Hoge, and
not beef. taught how TO earn
(. ,r rb say my daughters ought
az cooks. ! do not mean that
.'p9 obief end of womanhood, for
nave aspirations to become
- even Presidents-it is getting
Ell believe laughterl-b /
- should have some accom-
nerteetiOn with which the
Gkely to get out of fashion. A
m sends men into the world
es.iscsfed nfen. while they are ca
,,sr work than mere manual la
ii the absence of that better
III "a do the manual work bet
/. 9peducated man If they have
a. thev ought TO dig them bet
IL iocorant man.
a men are asked to pay $1,000 for
lion thew say they don't know
Ttis education is not efficient in
al life, A farmers son ought
~ from college qualified to show
~ better 70 work his farm. If
turns with "A great deal of phil
ri mathematics aud sciences out
geof the old mans apprehension,
lion is likely TO be unduly dispar-
b gght to expend more money
. h now on education. but we must
]. eople who pay the money realize
~ ellucatiou. | am told that the
"a more abstruse studies are an ex-
a.sjoline tor the mind. But why
mare solid truths, less out of the
m, serve as a discipline as well as
/ have been foTty-siX years away
loaI. | never had aught but a COM
Padon. Ny life might have been
mi and better otherWire, for | have
al over this earth, from the Adri-
on the East to the Pacific Ocean on
!. and every day / have deplOred
gledge of chemistry and geology as
dumb and blind amid the wonder
Of Gods creation, across the plains
oke with Gods eloquence, which
ed education prevented me from
had no other time for school
in the winters of the first ten years
outh. | never saw, during that
ook on chemistry or geology-nev-
that such books existed; and | feel
nv life would have been more use
lore enjoyable if had had time
chance TO study them. Learn all
We are still imperfectly taught. Let
that the student may know, then,
the path Just about him. When
say Il am educated. and, there
not work with my hands," they
heated. We are educating young
ut Of usefulness. The true man
e best work that to-day presents
Labor is becoming, with our ad-
more intellectual and
cal.
' years steam will supply all
forces of industry. The noblest
teaching us how more rapidly to
Sc new processes, and in time all
required viii be furnished by ar
wer. But | do not disparage the
education. The man is, after all,
to be perfected. The university
ust have bread, aad knowledge of
is not readily turned
i | would have no man sent out
led to earn his living by his hands,
+. | would have each graduate a
led man, so that if he were wreck
sSert island he could get along all
for his education. l would have
bristling with good points, so
sed in it, he could the better meet
Of cavalry, an attack of artillery,
lnet, or any attack in which the
les OF life may present themselves.
NJ people, is my conception OF
alton ought to be.
-ER SPEECH FROM HOR.
ACE GREELEY.