Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-09-25
PROFESSOR cARR's ADDRESS.


before that association. We find it re-
ported in the Record Union in full and
to convey to our. readers an idea of the
| character of man that the Professor is,
we reproduce theifoIlowing parts Of his
lecture. Discussing the need of coup
ling an education in books with an edu-
cation in the practical businesses of life,
he said
The State must go further than this
it must tit its children for their places in
the industrial ranks. The nation has
two technical schools, one for training
of navy, the other of army officers.
Each State has one for the training Of
teachers, and a few have real training
schools or colleges of agriculture and the
mechanic arts. If these are what they
should. they will do for those pursuits
what West Point and Annapolis do for
the army and navy. viz: make men who
are proud of their business. I wish
some Of the kid gloved gentry, who think
the base ball club and the boating club
furnishes q more digRified employment
for the muscles of our young men than
manual labor, couh have been with me
at the annual examination Of one of the
nation training schools, where high
born and low born. without distinction
of nationality or religion, learn-what
To scrub a deck, to furl a sail, to use
every tool IN the carpenters shops, in
the blacksmith S shops, to make and to
mend everything that belongs to ship,
to be considerate. gentlemanly, orderly,
to command themselves and Others to
obey, to love their country flag, and to
die for it without murmur, to 90 down
with the ship if need be-all this while
they learn everything that is required in
literature and science, for an education
of the first class.
And must one he a soldier or a sailor
to be thus furnished for his country's
service, for his own service in tine indus
trial state Shall a man be trained into
all manliness to walk the quarter deck,
worthy OF all obedience because he IN
derstands what he requires, and has him
self performed, not once. but g Thousand
times, all that he eIacts from subordi-
mates; and may he not have an equal
training for the post Of foreman ID a
mechanics shop, for the management of
his own broad acres, and the labore,s he
requires to cultivate them? Do you
suppose they would put a man in charge
of the Naval Academy. or tolerate sin
gle professor in West Point, who thought
practical education in war and naviga-
ton would prove q "failure''-was, at
best, doubtful experiment No, that
isn't the way they manage. Those old
admirals and army officers are seamen |
and soldiers through and through, from |
boots to buttons; they believe in their |
business. The men who lead in indus |
trial education must believe in it also.
This is stirring, splendid, inspiring
talk, striking the right note and going
straight at the heart of things. Further
along he says:
1 am not one Of those who think a
thing must be good because it is bald |
headed with antiquity. Education is
conservative. You cannot |
make move in the way of improvement
without disturbing somebody, and We
shall have to disturb good many per- |
sons sitting in comfortable chairs before
We get our educational stream to turning
mills and grinding corn.
This admirable address was closed with |
these following thought-inspired SEN
tences
The technical school in which We are
most directly interested is that which
gives us teachers. Without the right
Kind of teachers no reform is possible.
The one business which it should be the
,pecial concern of the State to maintain
n honor, which should be kept free from
political or sectarian influences, which
should be entered into with zeal and
ability, and never as make.
hift, is education. The educator, wheth-
r Of the school or the press, stands at
he point of power, and holds the high
st Office in the social economy.
The work of organizing the national
is now claiming the attention
# scholars and patriots. Such an or
in its higher and lower stages,
Fill be impartial in its bearings upon in
elect and industry. impartial as to sex,
making boys training preparatory to
mans work, and girls to woman's.
1ife's. mother's work. and in both will
the intrinsic dignity of SELF !
1pport. ]
The graduate of the National School !
+ Pedagogy, or Normal School, will
ave the same relation to the Govern :
lent that the graduate of West Point or j
{ the Naval Academy has. and thus (
zen by step the hitherto unreWarded |