The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-07-01
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sIstorss Gsebns~Ir than .yota' Tor !otsF.
commemorate on Roy: Mnrkland's ad.
dress. MaYbeyou will let me add word
on the same subject. .3 Ss
Oh, how painfully have ! p0ndered lit in
nv I,ast life And hoMs deeply does ft
moye me when my little ones, at times,
earnestly ask me for the. passing hour,
&c Father, what shall j do 2o OF course 1t
IL nv -strlfv-ro .irrd ont for these innocents
active pleasures, wholesome books, and, as
far as possible, mingling the agreeable and
useful, make obvious profit to grow out OF
every Iaborand occupation.
Where the Almighty has bestowed tal-
emit, with its yearniDg, the question OF duty
is not SO difficult. But the |" stunner"
comes when we have the average, we'll
disposed boy, with a fair endowment OF
intellectual power, OF moral force and phys
icai energy, for our advice.
And now this average boy. who IS the
type of mankind, Is he that raises the great
question Of education. His development
constitutes the problem Of education. The
bow with strong love OF languages decides
Iris own case. So he that devotedIy loves
mathematical science, &c. ~
Talk OF educating your son to a general
friend, and Immediately he understands you
to design him for law, medicine, or the min
istry. The merchant, the manufacturer, the
farmer. does not need an education. That
is the popular falacy. The practical effect
of this is that fUe per cent. OF merchants
and manufacturers get and keep compe-
tency, and more farmers fail than can be
sold out. And the tragic part OF it is that
all these 60 through life without ever know
ing OF the high, manly. heaven-ofered de-
lights-a cultivated mind and heart. More
over, under another general absurdlty, one
is amazed often to see the utter .cant OF cat,
tiuation in what are known as the learned
professions. And still farther, it Is not un-
common to find the man who has picked up
an education eXempllfyipg the hlghest
type of education-the watered Sarden,
Astounding in pleasant fruits: Mec otz''
male, qui natus anoriens que .1eJeHiS. /,
But wanted to put IN print practlcai
suggestion for the development OF the ave-
rage boy. made the same to my irlends
NJ the Board of Trustees OF the University.
They laid it on the table for future consid-
Grafton. I suppose it will lie there until
they wake up to the wants OF the age. l
suggest course for the average boy, and
would be too happy il all mine could have
the benefit of it:
First Year.-Junior and intermediate
Mathematics, Junior Natural Philosophy,
with Mineralogy and Geology, Practical
Chemistry, Junior Moral Philosophy.
Second Year.-Moral Philosophy and Po-
litical Economy, History, and Belle Lettres,
Junior Law.
Such course as this would set in the
mind of the boy the principles of physics
and morals; and it would kindle in him a
love OF pure and honorable things; and it
would afford him a healthy, practical eXer-
else OF his powers. He would acquire the
tastes, skill, and power that would fit him
to walk rs man among men. To him that
mastered them I'd give a certificate t" Pro
ticient in Practical knowledge" What 4
" thorough collegiate education :" does now
for the average boy,-well, / don't care to
give the result Of my observation.
Truly YOURS, F't