Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1883-07-29

In the HERALD of Thursday and Fri
day appeared notices of addresses on the
subject of education by Hon. Zach.
Montgomery. While opposing the pres.
ent Public School System, which he
shows to fail in its purpose of prevent
ing crime, and promoting happiness, he
lays down the following propositions;
Parents are bound, by the law Of
Nature leach according to his ability,
to properly feed, elothe and educate
their own children, and unwilling
parents shall be compelled, by appro-
pirate legislation, to discharge these
duties.
lit is Il public duty to assist, at
public expense, in furnishing the neces-
sary means wherewith to properly feed,
clothe, and educate children whose
parents are unable to so feed. clothe and
educate them.
IlI-No citizen of this State shall
ever be taxed for the feeding, clothing
or educating of children-not his own
whose parents are amply able to feed,
clothe and educate them.
lV-All such parents as are neither
mentally nor morally unit to have the
custody of children, are entitled, and in
duty bound, to select for the education
OF their own children, schools wherein
they believe that neither the teachers,
the associations, nor the kind OF in
struction given will seriously endan.
ger either their health, their lives or
their morals, but will best promote
their temporal and eternal welfare.
Whether the State, nor any mu
nicipal or other government organized
under its authority, shall ever force
upon thechild OF any parent--not legally
adjudged mentally or morally unit to
discharge the duties OF the parental
otlice-iny particular teacher, book, or
system OF religion or non-relgiou in
struction against he conscientious OBJ
jections of such parent.
Vt.-Tuitiop, when at public ex-
pense. shall embrace good common
English and business education, added
to such thorough training in one or
more Of the mechanic arts, or the manu-
featuring, domestic, or productive in
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the practical business OF self-support,
but shall not extend to the mere orua-
mental or more abstruse arts or sciences,
except in a limited class Of cases Ito be
provided for by law as reward for OK
allied merit, when coupled with high
order of talent and a special aptitude for
such arts or sciences.
VII-The whole business of educat-
ing and training the young shall, like
other professions, be open to private
enterprise aud free competition; pro-
vided that the State shall establish and
maintain such necessary educational in
situations as private enterprise shall fail
to establish and maintain; and every par
ent or guardian entitled to have his or her
child or ward educated at public ex-
pense, shall select for such purpose his
own school, and the teacher or principal
Of such school shall be paid periodically
for teaching such pupil, a compensation,
the maximum of which shall be fixed by
law, which compensation shall be pro-
portionate to the progress made by the
pupil during such period of tuition in
the legally appointed secular branches.
Said progress to be ascertained by ex-
aminers duly elected or appointed in
such manner as may be given in any
such school shall be at public expense or
subject to the supervision of said ex-
aminers.