The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-05-09
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EDUCATIONAL.
BY PROF. $. 5. rAncock
COMPULSORY EDUCATION.

4 and able speakers in this country
/. We present the following as the es
sential points in his lecture on Com
pulsory Education. MFR. Beechcl
began by saying:
5 Thought passed ia waves. Al
one time all Europe was discussing
war problems then politics; again
theology. Very many of those
matters which once commanded the
most thorough research and study
were now considered of no account
whatever. Now more practical
question was attracting universal
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. occupies the
mind of the civilized worid-com-
mon, rudimental instruction of the
masses, and not the peculiar privi-
!, leges of the moro favored classes
and for this he pleaded. In Great
Britain the church question had be-
come subordinate to that of educa-
ton, and now the query OF most
importance was, Who shall instruct
tho childrcn-shall the priest or the
people? Plainly it was the duty of
the citizen and of government.
The priesthood had done good SER
vice, but their day had gone, and
education had become the duty of
the State. In Great Britain it had
come to be considered the God-giv-
en- right of the people, and German
influence was being felt over all
Europe. The German Empire owed
its solidity to its schools. 1t was
the intelligence of tho North Ger
man soldiery that conquered Aus
tria, and she was learning wisdom
from her conqueror. In Italy and
Switzerland education has been
made compulsory, while France
lags behind-is the bottom State
because her masses are ignorant !;
and may never hope to cope with
her neighbors while such is the
case.
Governments have long been try
ing to learn how best to ride the
people, and it is proven that the
best saddle is intelligence; that
knowledge implies good citizen
ship. Education is military force,
and our civil conflict was really the
Northern school against the South
ern plantation. The most intelli-
gent people produce the greatest
wealth per capita; our country
leading among the nations, and
Connecticut among the States. The
patent records showed one inVen-
ton to every S3l people in that
| State, while in Arkansas only one
in $1,000 knew enough to invent
anything. Prices are regulated by
the amount of brains required in
production, and combinations can
no moro produce uniformity than
they can make men look alike. The
man who has the most brains will
receive the best pay, and stand high
est in the estimation of his fellow
men. The time is coming when our
country will have population OF
500,000,000. low shall they be
made safe and orderly? Every
known country was paying tribute
to America, and sending its popula-
ton here, with all their diverse re-
ligions, customs and ideas. such
combination can never be made har-
monious except by national educa-
ton. If religion meant love 10 God
and love to man, il would he a con-
trolliEg power. But while in a few
hearts il means this, al all other
points it bristles with warfare. Re-
| ligIon should mean harmony; intel
| ligence does.
Education shorld include political
principles, morality, social duty. 1t
should be made compulsory. Ev-
cry State should provide for the ed
u cation of its whole people. Such
provisions had been made, such
principles settled; but as farmers
sometimes pillow up the old sod and
SOW again, so il BELTS us to deal
with moral growths, and IL is time
now 10 discuss this great matter
once more, The influence of for
eigu elements in our population de-
mands Lively interest in the whole
matter. The State must educate its
| people, and not the church. The
Stale has right 10 make its own
existence secure, and security to tho
State comes only from The educa-
ton OF the whole people, which
| thus becomes self-defense. Dog
matte T., IigiOn is not necessary to
! the existence of the Stale; intclli-
geHce is. School houses should be
| multiplied till they are ample for
the accommodation of all, and the
| teacher should be among the most
| ionored of the land. No one stands
so near the father and mother, in
influence uTon the future of the
country, as the school teacher-not
professors in college. but the educa-
tors of the masses.
Our schools do not teach enough.
They should include the distinction
between good and evil; incuicate
truth, honesty, temperance, self
control, fidelity, economy and pa
triotism. II was not imperative
that The use of tho Bible be Insisted
upon, for really it was not the most
felicitous school book but more
truth should be taught. Every man
should improve in the use of truth.
Is there truth in The houses we
build !? in the goods we sell? in the
work we do? Are there not as
many mil uths as mice in an old ho-
tel! We grasp for more than we
deserve, and find ourselves cheated
ia The quality. 1t is vain 10 teach
the higher branches and leave these
more important things untaughi.
Men should be so taught as 10 be
lpairiOtic. not when the drum beats
and cannon roar, but when they
stand alone. Dapper, dainty. deli
cate young men, who are afraid oil
hard work, swarm IN all the cities
and beg tor soft positions under
government and in fat Offices. 1t is
sin for anv man tn bring up boys
thus they should he taught to take
care OF their mouths and backs with
their own hands. 1t il o shame to
know all about Mars and Jupiter,
and nothing of Massachusetts,. The
State schools should be made so
good that no private school can live
in their vicinity; and every poor
boy shonid look up TO the > tate a
his rich uncle. CompulsorS educa.
ton ought to give no just person
oflense. The law gives no annoy
ance TO the man who always keeps
in advance of IL. Self-interest NIGH
demand education, but 1t could no
be depended upon. Many foreign
ePs come here desiring education
for their children: others, who
ought to be equally interested, come
with far different motives. They
are useless and dangerous class
. without intelligence. We have D.
, 600. 900 men in the country, whs
cannot make anything. and these al
require education. The speaker
= hailed the coming OF the Chinese Il
/. our western shores, for they brough
their hands full of tools-brough
intelligence, education aud industry
r He did not fear their religion, 70
/, If their joss was stronger than on
: Jehovah he ought 10 reign but Tia
time was not distant when the,
would become valuable, Gotl-eerv
:, ing citizens.--AIn. Journal Ed.
!, How MARRIED Man SEws o.
e BUTToN.-It is bad enough Il
n see bachelor sew on a button
:, hut he ia fIie eInbodiment. of orac