New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-09
POPULAR EDUCATION.

fined to the primary and pictorial pre-
sentation of birds, beasts and fishes, no
to the outlined coasts of regions mythics
to little juvenile toilers in the paths c
knowledge.
1t is not to be met by high schools @
| any grade which teach in languages foreve
| dead the NEUROLOGICAL iniquities Of tn
heather diviniies.
These are each useful, but they do no;
comply with the public duty of an organi
Zation of schools for education in pursuits
very useful to society, but not requiring
the time or indeed talent especially essen
tial in the class just stated.
Every human being of sound intelli
gence should be provided with some hon
est mode of applying the knowledge in
culcated by the schools. The child is
like the soldier. the servant of the repub-
lie. Each must be drilled, disciplined
and armed with the best and most
effective weapons for fighting the war
against the public enemy. The public
enemy with which the boy or girl
is drilled and armed to contend
is the conjoint forces Of crime
and pauperism. There is no modern
system of education complete unless it
comprehends no. only the improvement
of the intelligence ,f the scholar, but
provides him also with some practical
course OF instruction as to how that intel
ligence shall be applied. Hence the es-
adjustment of schools Of the learned pro-
LESSONS.
Our people declaim about and against
the industrial resources of New York and
New England. Let them examine the
educational systems Of those States, and
i. will be found that they comprehend the
instruction of youth by polytechnic and
technical scLools-that is, schools which
instruct in the general principles OF
science as applied to the arts, and other
special schools at which the principles
of science and practice, as employed in
the special trades and callings, are made
plain to the scholar. At the first school
may be educated civil engineers. phi
losophers of physical geography, climatol-
ogy, of states, or similar departments
Of practical and exact science. At the
and trade schools they teach
he ordinary arts Of mechanical industry.
10 both male and female pupils.
These systems are copied from the Old
World which has found it necessary to
educate its workmen to qualify them for
higher production. Adopted in America,
t has aided the people to perfect inven-
ions which diminish the labor Of the
and substitute the dynamic force
# some natural element fer the muscular
oil Of man.
The Congress of the cnited States has
the duty which We announce.
t has performed the duty that We have
described. 1t has appropriated an allot-
nent of public lands to each State in the |
Jnion on conditions precedent that each I
tate applying shall have organized m
gricultural and mechanical institution
ompetent to accept and apply the land or
and scrip Donated
Louisiana has such find Sc: oves for
er reception. 1t has, indeed, been ass
epted and invested and is now held sub
,ct to the designation by the Legislature
some collegiate institution capable ss
omplyjpg with the conditions pf the
grant. It is the duty Of the
legislature to make this designation,
nd it is imperative that It shall be
ade at once to prevent a lapse Of
re donation. There axe bills presented
I'd pending before the Legislature solicit
g the application Of this fund by way OF
ldowme Mt to several colleges. Upon
lie special claims of these institutions we
lall make no comment, but shall con-
lie ourselves to two propositions, to our
ind indispensable to the fulfllment of
e Republican duty stated as the basis
this article.
I. This fund should be SO applied as
at it shall recognized no distinction of
ce, color or previous condition. More
stinctly, it should be given to no insti-
ton in whose charter any such distinc-
,n Of admission exists. The people of
is State are equal political integers with
others in the United States. It is their
I'D money, as it is the land money OF any
her citizens, that Congress has appro-
lated - not donated. In addition
this moral and legal right of !,
Oh citizen of Louisiana to participate
ually in the enjoyment Of his own fund
common with Others, the REPUBLICAN
s argued the extreme importance of ,
ucating and utilizing the mechanical
d industrial intelligence of the colored
ople. An equal distribution of the
nefits Of this fund is, then, indispensa-
: in justice and in Judgment to the per,
nance of this public trust.
Z The mechanical department of this
.st is Of the utmost Importance to !,
uisiana. It would then be useless to
ice the workshops and lecture rooms
ywhere else than in New Orleans. Here
have the most extensive and complete
indries, machine shops and laboratories.
re we have the most modern machinery
the mechanical arts and the most per- a
t process OF chemical agency. Here ri
have the male and female youth, within a.
} age OF indential instruction, which, o
mated at but two and half per cent