Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-27
STATE EDUCATION.

Eighth Asssfssos Conversation of the Mas.,ae-
apoIis State Teachers Assoctetsen-Ae-
dresses By r. p. Sample, ID. D., RssAos
G. d. Foss, and Hon. r. ". BsoAsasgf, OF
Boston.
The eight annual convention Of the
State Teacher association opened last eve
ming at o'clock, in the parlors of the
Westminster Presbyterian church. Among
the prominent educators present were
noticed the following: Hon. D.
l.. Kiehle, cup. of public instruc-
ton, Prof. s. 8. Parr, of ST. Paul, edi-
tor of the Minnesota Journal of Education
Prof. G. M. Blake, of Cannon Falls, Mimi,
Prof. P. w. Cranell, ELuverne, Prof. d. L..
CummIns,; Anoka, Supt B. NJ. Reynolds.
| Of the FaribauIt schools, Prof. Jerome
| Allen, of the ST. Cloud Normal school,
Msj. A. ]. Cheney, Of Chicago, Supt. Vim.
| Moore, Lake City school, Prof. V. G..
| Curtiss, OF Saltwater, A. M.
Weles, of the ST. Cloud schools, Prof. L.
| @. Lord, of st. Peter, e. z. w. Brockaw,
| of Glencoe. After organ recitals by M. E
Savage, DR.. Sample, on being introduced,
delivered the opening address. He was
glad to welcome to the church of which he
| is pastor the members Of the association
| and the friends of liberal education.
| He spoke Of the importance
| of the work in which this
body was engaged and referred to she aph-
| orism Of Bacon, that knowledge is DOW
| er." In country like ours, with its form
of government under which every man is
sovereign, and in order to exercise the
fraachise intelligently he must be eds
| Gated. Mere intellectual culture was not
sufficient Some assert that education is a
pauaoea for every social and political evil
To DO sure, Ignorance and vice are closely
allied, but We have had educated crimi-
mails, like Fisks, Schuyler and Tweed
Moral education is the highest form of = j..
ucation, and it should be the dominant
aim Of our system to inculcate and teach
morality. Napoleon tbs First said that
without morality there can be no sociery,
and no morality without religion. All
schools should base education upon moral
ity and religion. We cannot attain the
highest stages Of human progress without
| morality. Intellectual and moral culture
| should be joined in our system of educa-
ton.
Bishop @. D. Foss was the next speaker.
| He began by showing how much of the
| comforts Of life are dependent on edu-
| Gated brains. lie cited statistics contrast
ing the difference in value between the
| productions of educated and lli.ersse la
borers. The q. s. commissioner of eda-
cation some time ago instituted an in
quiry to ascertain the relative values of
the productions of laborels graded &C.
cording to education received in the com
mon schools, the acedemi and the uni
| UArsTfIns Coyo cd = i,
so per cent. to the productive poser of
an individual; academical culture adds
| 100 per cent. and university education
| from 200 to 800 per cent. There are
4,3t S62 itliterate adults IN the United
| States and they rob the nation every year
of $21O,000,000 through unskilled prodac-
| ton. That sum was twice the cost of edu-
cation throughout the entire country. He
next touched on pauperism and said a
mere common school education gives an
individual thirty chances to one to es-
| cape the poorhouse in Pennsylvania
Ohio and Illinois. It gave twenty-three
| chances to one in fifteen s5abas of the
union. Criminal statistics weIe given
showing the cost to the state IN the way of
| supporting hospitals, penitentaries, 60.
The enormous sum of $5,000,000 is spent
in New York every year on criminal and
reformatory Institutions sum so per
cent. more than the cost of the public
schools. He agreed with DR.. Sample in
regard to the element of morality in edu-
cation and said mere intellectual life
never transforms the heart
! He maintained that common school educa-
ton is moral in its tendency. The method
| adopted by the teachers in importing
bnwIsdge is profoundly moral. The work
is grandly supplemented by the Sunday
school and the home, the church and the
pulpit. He dwelt on the state of eduoa-
tisn in the south, especially in Tsnnesses,
Georgia and Alabama. In Kentucky 1O6,-
600 white adults ever twenty
one years of age are
| unable to read or write; in North Carolina
So 5000; Alabama, 9o,174. There, are more
illiterates now in Tennessee than at any
time siAce the GENIUS of 1907. There was
| a Widespread failure of the ballot box in
| the gulf states to do its duty. Every friend
Of his country, who comes to know the
facts of the educational status of that
part of the country, must fear and tremble
fer its safety. The problem of the re-
public is aot yet solved, whilst this state
Of illiSsracy EXISTS in the land.
Wuou mo pOpUlatiOu Is Inuisipll6Q -FOUR
fold and tho final testlof our Institutions has
been reached, it will require every force of
education, of religion, of logic, of philos-
ophy, and Of the sermon on the mount to
preserve the republic from destruction.
He was in favor of the universal
education of the people. Daniel
Webster and James Madison we're quoted
TO the effsct that education was indispensa-
bly, necessary to the perpetuation of our
| republican liberty and institutions. The
great masters of education, the men in the
puipits, the great thinkers were in favor of
education, based upon morality. Educa-
ton without morality to guide it was only
| q sword in the hand cf madman.
Herbert Spenser and Huxley were
named as being supporters of morality
in education. Without the moral element
it would prove curse instead OF q blessing,
Huxley says there must be a moral SUB
stratum to child's education to make it
valuable. The bishop, on concluding his
interesting address, was applauded warm
~.
Tho next speaker was Hon. T. ". Biok-
nell, of Boston, the president Of the Na-
| tional Educational association.
| De said that throughout the whole
| coentry an unusual interest is now taksn
| in the subject Of education. The interest