New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-27
NOTES on EDUCATION

Sir CorcOran has done very excellent ana
generous deed IN adding Art School TO the Gallery
presented by him 70 the City OF Washington Interest
In art .s rapidly growing IN America, aud every new
venture OF this kui has hope and culture in It's very
foundation. Mr.. COrcOrau intended, az first 70 make
the gallery merely pleas qre-yins affair out me sun
more geaIa benevOlcucc " second thought makes OF
IL thing Of well as OF beauty.
Il seems TO be decided, at last, that the
Fourteenth Amendment does not provide for every pos
sble conflict Of opinion between white and cOlOred
people In considering tie education Of the children Of
the tvorces IN the schools, two Northern courts
have recently held that the question belongs 20 the
School Board for decision, and not 10 the Amendment
or % the citizen Their arguments that any classih-
cation which preserves substantially equal school ad-
vanag Is not prohibited by either the State or Federal
constitutions; that the citizen cannot dictate where or
bl what teacher Lis children shall be taught; ana that
"equallty Of rights" does not imply that wnlte ana
colonel children shall be educated in the same school
any more than II implies the education OF DOth sexes lh
the same school
Among the many painful necessities of the
South there is none more emphatic than that Of edu-
cation and action in regard 10 It cannot be too quick
and thorough Through their journals and through the
Commissioner Of Education, SOutherners themselves
are urging with the energy OF sorrowful perception the
enforcement Of free education In their States In Ten
Iessee-whch stands second among the States In point
OF uBteracy-the demand Is and earnest, the In
terest In needs and methods growing daily more bust
pessIks One suggestion Is that the West Tennessee
College should be turned into large free school This
tlght perhaps be a good point start from IN that
nan of the State. The measure which at this point
seems most pOduar in the Of advancing popular
bducafOn in lie South, the bill introduced during the
Ist sessio OF Congress- which provides that the net
receipts OF the sales OF pubic lands sDaI Dc gwen 10
educational purposes, and under certain regulations
places tbe distribution OF such funds IN the control OF
Ihe Commissioner OF Education Inls Dill was passed ny
tie House but was not acted upon by the Senate.
The Rev. Il. w. Beecher, in his recent lecture
Advocating compulsory education declared that organ
f,ed disbonesty il becoming and more the law Of
ebe time and that the education provided by the State
ehould include not only the common school branches
but the elements Of universal morality The list OF new
etndes proposed by the lecturer" truth, honor hon
esty temperance fidelity, industry and patriotism
ebould not be beyond the capacity OF the average
teacher and probably Is not But the average teacher
certainly does MT concern himself with all that. Our
nraised and very useful school system does sadly
lsck the vital warmth OF ethical instruction Neither
,neD nor boys live by mathematics and grammar alone
IL the puhlc schools Of villages these studies are
carried forward sterDy but what pupil learns
Of patriotism than he gets from the hghfOwn
speeches in his Reader, occasional glance
at the country newspaper, which is too often
full Of politics Of the HOeaDd Corner Bu6eFy" order
How many teachers OF public schools take any pains 70
with simplicity and uaturai1css sense OF Tie Dcaug
OF manly honor and good life IN boys mDdf Hones'
ions tcy are the pracdcal groundwork Of success ~
hnancl aud political lrei but IS senllnienai ~ I'D
eiracag our school stem certainly seems 70 leklI
elem All these things are lett 10 mono ouuOaVVN @'