The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-23
LIFTING Ur THE NATION.
,., Lecture on Universal Educa-
"N' tion.
c,,,,e,ton Neus and Courier.

M rla Academy OF Music Lhuisuay
Iss ,,aa filed with large and appre.
plgn. gI.o "% audience to hear the public lee
Flall'gf ~ The Rev. A. D. Mayo, d. D., OF
,,s)uTe o. -" The seats upon the stage were
eOsloi, sla;sd by the Mayor of the city and
=5Hsccn3.r "A 5oord Of Aldermen, {. number of the
he Omen pun of the city, the trustees and
clelg! f. f of the College of Charleston, the
acuIy ,,y of the Medical College, the prin.
acu1t of the city schools, several men,
sars Of the Charleston, delegation to the
$:.sueral Assembly and q NUMBER OF dis
flqgu,,p Tasor Courtepay presided, and pre-
.,sj aaj the lecturer as follows:
e4.ea M;. With the greatest pleasure that I
,arce to vou distinguished citizen
sll'.0 sster State, who is on q visit to
81 Or Carolina in the interest of univer-
ioG''a oducstion. For several years his
~ ssnl,rhtfnl mind has been considering
s.hous .hO csonditions of Southern education,
sne Yea rear or two since he concluded that
3auu e ,;me was propitious for arousing q
Inu IaeoraI ali interest in this momentous sub.
lSct He has gone to this work with an
Earnest purpose to accomplish great
eSange % and his reward is assured. 1t
.1IDS ,.;ii Come to him in the near future, in
,hs n MULTIPLICATION of schools, higher
.,ordord of teaching, and the grateful
a,hanks of tens of thousands who will
have profted by his laborious and far
rsschipp efforts. I present to you DR..
\ aMayo, Of Boston.
Without reference to notes or manu-
,crint DR.. Mayo proceeded to deliver one
n the most entertaining and instructive
unblic addresses that has ever been heard
IN Charleston. Thanking the audience
6r their presence and the cordial recep-
lion which he had received, he took oc-
cs,ion to add that he had hardly been
nrppared for the enthusiastic interest that
he had found even in the remote counties
Of South Carolina in the good cause Of
education.
The subject of DR.. Mayo's address was,
"How does universal education pay ?"
He started out with the proposition that
one of the largest items of municipal
expense in every Northern American
civ, and in almost every township. is the
annual cost of the peoples free schools.
He then defined universal education to
be the opening of broad highway, from
the b1mblest mans door to, the summit
Of American society, and the assistance
by the State of every child, according TO
bis ability, taste and circumstances, to
walk therein as fast and as far as is prac-
tcable in every special case. And if our
schools of every grade are what they
should be, thorough all the way up, there
will be little danger that any youth will
care to press on further than his talents
and reasonable expectations in life war
rant. What we mean by universal edu-
cation is that the State shall insist that
all its children shall have certain in
dispensable minimum of schooling, and,
beyond that, way shall be opened by
which every child Of superior talent shall
be encouraged, even assisted if need be,
to develop that superior ability 80 essen
tial to the highest welfare of the Re-
public.
WHAT UNIVERSAL EDUCATION IS.
BY universal education all competent t
American schoolmen mean system of
training for children and youth which
first strikes at the character, through the
discipline and moral instruction Of q
good school, teaching ell children the
fundamental moral virtues, with rever-
ence for the religious life, by precept, but
chiefly by the perpetual example of the
teacher and the conduct of his school.
Second. 1t aims ct the radical deyel-
opment of the mind, by awakening the
love Of truth and tie desire for knowl-
edge, and by that discipline of the men
tai faculties which enables child to go
forth into the world and gather an edu-
cation in Gods great university of nature
and life, and to use the record of man 3
wisdom found in books.
Third. 1t aims to train the child in
practical, social and civic life; for good
public school is the best gymnasium to
train Young America for the life out of
doors.
Fourth. 1t is great daily education
into gentle manners and the opening of
the spirit to the sweet influence of beauty
and true refinement. This is all found in
A GOOD PUBLIC SCHOOL.
This school does not aim at distin.
gulshed scholarship-that is the work of
Inc university. 1t does not pretend to
!urn out churchmen-that is the vocation
OF the church. 1t does not teach trades
that is the work of the technical school
or or OF apprenticeship. 1t does not grad
uate authors, artists or distinguished fig
ares in society, but it prevents all people
Ol uncommon genius from becoming un.
common fools. 1t does profess to give to
ever! child that start in life, by q general
training of all its powers, which will
guard the Commonwealth against the
lerIl6le perils of popular ignorance,
vulgarity and vice.
Inc one thing that pays in q Republi.
:: Cah government, first, second, all the
Ilme, is the glorious manhood and wo.
manhood of its people. This is the pearl
oi great price that we must get, even If
we sell all that we have TO buy it. For
unless our children in America can grow
up into true American men and women,
V.rtuous, industrious, Intelligent, refined,
aSscordlng to the American Christian
'aeai OF the Fathers, our power and
wealth we and glory will be only an ice pal.
ace @ built TO defy July sun. And if
universal education, as embodied in our
General American system of good, com.
lhon, academical and university schools,
.veS now or can be made to promote that
'llal end, there is no amount of money
90 2Ig great to be expended upon it.
~ Universal education, as embodied in
.uf american system Of public and pri-
,a'e ,, schooling for the whole people, pays
- tne most radical way anything can
.ay IN q Republic. It is all the Time
raining that manhood and womanhood
u our people which is the soul of all real
uccess in life.
'hE coRNER-sroNE OF THE NATION.
Ihe glory of our American style Of
! is that it does make. especially
ae daughters OF our foreign born and
iallve people of lowlier sort, ashamed Of
os.:snou, bhTbaTi5m, superstition is all
ne tima liffino. than nut Of the Law