The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1882-1884, 1883-09-13
HAVE We COMPLETE SYSTEM OF EDUCA
TlON IN NORTH CAROLINA.

NAVE vi TioN IYTrNoRffHI N NORTH iC5asoIISa ''''"
| According to statute law we have
not, but practically we have. Our
educ ational work has of its own &C
cord crystalizcd into complete sys-
tenn.
! Education in the full sense, in
cludes literary. moral, and religious
training. The family. the church, and
the State are the parties upon whom
rests the responsibility Of imparting
: this training. The head of the fami-
lly is responsible for the literary. NOR
al and religious the State is respon.
sihle for the literary and moral and
the church is responsible for the NOR
al and religious training. Thus the
agency upon which re SITS the respon
sibility OF education is of a complex
4 nature apd the adjustment OF the
work to the different agents requires
a wise discrimination. This adjust
ment is the most difficult problem in
the whole educational work. Happi-
ly for us, Providence and our people
have solved it.
I The work of education may, for
the sake of better understanding,
be divided into Common, Intermedi-
ate, and Higher. The Higher may
be supplemented by what we will call
the Highest. The Public Free Schools
and the Private Primary Schools,
mainly, furnish the Common educa.
ton, which includes a knowledge of
the ordinary English branches; the
Academies (or High Schools) and col.
leges furnish the intermediate and
: Higher education, which includes the
: classical and scientific courses; and
= the Colleges and University furnish
the Higher and Highest, which in
cludes classical, scientific and profes-
: sional knowledge. .--.
t The State has provided for the
!, Common education by establishing
Public Free schools in every commu.
!, nifty to continue four months in the
d year and for the Higher and High.
}. est education by establishing the
u University, where "all useful knowl-
n edge is impaired to such as choose
l. to enter.
The state has, also, provided for
l. moral training by requiring that the
8 teachers in the Free Schools and
'eI iyersity be persons "of good NOR
y al character" and then giving them
e power to suppress immortality
L. amongst their pupils.
Is The State has done all that 1t evel
E. ought to do SO far as the extent OF
territory it occupies in the education
r. al field. To continue the Public Free
ct Schools for four months in the year
at and the University for ten months IL
s. the year, is as much as it ought evel
ct to attempt. To carry forward to :
IN higher degree Of peri the Pub
"a lie Free Schools and University a:
d. now established, is the future work
8 of the State.
re The family and the church ough
e. to cooperate with the State in making
A more efficientthe Public Free Schools
K If it is desired in any community tt
rs lengthen the term of these schools
tn the family (families) of the communi
Sc tv may do this by the provisions o
TX the Local Assessment Act, and at th
same time obtain a voice in the selec
ton of teachers for these schools
n. Thus the family and the State col
be daily cooperating, schools may con
be tinue long enough in every communi
en- ty to enable every one who grows ul
ur in the State to obtain the Common
MS education.
en- The one main thing the State need
e. to do to perfecs its Common School
he lis to compel by law every head Of
ad family to see to it that every chill
en- growing up in that family receive tn
at Common education, though he nee
I'm not necessarily send them to the Put
IN. lie Free Schools to get that educa
&C. ton. That which is Of second impo1
on tance for the State to do in perfectin
ed Tits Common Schools is to provid
as teachers worthy Of the title; for
on would be unjust to compel parents
lly send their children to q school taugf
pc. by such teacher as many OF thos
lea are who are now employed in ths
7ill capacity.
ofl The family and the church ougf
ex- not to interfere with the State in ca
ofIrving on its Public Free Schools, bl
of ought to encourage all the children
ing attend them for if the State claim
be the child for only six or eight hou
'elf a day, SIX days in the week, durin
&C. four months in the year, the famil
,rs, and the church will have all the ba
ind ance of the child's time to give it Il
At. desired religious and moral trainir
will which it is their duty to impart.
in In the Univ ersity the A. B., PHI. E
ich and B. S. courses ought to be CONT
18th ued as now, but henceforth it oug
tue to give special attention to the A.
am (post.graduate) course. and furni
are every facility for A. B. graduates
and the University and Colleges to o.
tam ut home the Highest educatio
thel There is no reason why the Univer