Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-04-19

pills Of their privileges ~ some would have
"a believe. The majority would find their
wants met in the extended Grammcr
School course, and the few would avail
themselves Of far better training elsew here
We must also remember that less than
three per cent. Of the total enrolment ever
reach the High School, and that the ex.
pense Of instruction increases ms the MINI
Der benefited decreases. In matters Of edit
cation, America will sit at the ieet Of Prus-
sia more willingly than nt the feet Of any
other nation, Schools Of the same grade
Of our high school in Prussia, are IN the
ratio OF TO 10000 Of her inhabitants.
The same ratio in this State would give us
40 High Schools. let us hoep that no
State law will take from us the peoples
college, and thnt each town will exercise
far reaching wisdom, as it sliall settle this
most important Of local issues. .i.a.
COLLEGIATE WORK. Es
A change IL beginning to show itself In
the methods aud scope of collegiate york.
Formerly prescribed course must be gone
over by nll without reference to the natu-
raj aplitudes and previous attainmbnts Of
individual under graduates. Yale, Har-
ward, aud Cornell led off in n new move.
ment. TO the students who had reached
"
Other colleges have followed in. the same
course. Some permit limited choice in
Junior year.
These changes are in the right direction.
Individual desire nnl talent now have free
rein. The lover Sf natural science is able
to follow his natural longingH. Each stu
dent finds his congcnial work. The sum
of human knowledge il increased. But
the gates must I've thrown open wider. As
minds moro mature by longer courses Of
preparatory training enter these education.
al fields, skilled aud skillful inspirers must
lead each To those portions best adapted 10
each individual. The grade Of collegiate
work must he raised still higher, the range
Of studies made still broader, aud the free
dom Of the thinker be still more unre-
| stricted.
Denominational schools, 10 keen pace
with advancing State Institutions, should
be fewer in number aud better in quality;
should put their scattered means into c1l-
eges centrally located, and better equipped
in men, books, and other appliances, and
make the grades equal to those of the best
secular institutions. Theological schools
must improve. The educated pew needs
the educated pulpit. -
And, probLbly, the day is not far distant,
when the professional schools, supported
not by taxation, but by private enterprise,
as, in justice to all classes, they should be,
will plan and carry out courses of study
more commensurate with collegiate work
in other departments. 17-'
THE UNIVERSITY. e.
In Germany there is but one Berlin, in
matters of education. Its University with
its 200 professors and $500 students, stands
pre.eminently the educational center of
the world To it America yearly sends
many OF her nblest scholars. The America
of the future will demand an institution of
equal or higher rank within her borders.
The America that can support almost as
great population as Europe, AsiHN and
Africa combined, will not leave to others
the higher education OF her sons and
daughters. Somewhere within this countryl
OF ours an institution will rise, to which
educated thought will come, as now il goes
to other and foreign schools. ..I I4aa
Its courses of instruction will begin
where those OF Yale and Harvard now end .
It's professors will be paid for original uork.
and as instructors, will announce only re.
suits OF their own finding. Its libraries
will be store-houseE, fuller than we can
conceive. 1t will open paths in special
| u.
1t will lay the wealth OF thought of every
nation at our very feet. And in natural
sciences. in mechanic arts, and in tho pol ite
arts, what may not abundant apparatus
and superior facilities do? Such an in
stitution must also ever be free from the
control OF any acct, and derive it's support
from National, State and indiyidal enter,
prise.
And why do we need so exhaustive an
educational system?
The answer is in this: That henceforth
for nations. brains must win; that the sur
viyal of the fittest must depend upon
mental and not physical force; that this
mental force can be gained only through
persistant, individual cfTsrt; that elnca-
iion is The instrument through which the
greatest number will put forth these efforts
that it must he universal and exhaustive,
and that nation is wise, which hasteN
quickest TO make il 30. The motto OF the
German philosopher is for nation as we'll
as men, l grow old, always learning"