The Wilmingtonian., 1885-03-14
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Fait"us average ages grazing nom 10 years
to ls, are absolutely dead weight upon the
community for term of years, causing a
large additional pccuuiary outlay. BY the
suggestion of technical education we may
have ineasureably self supporting system,
contributive in degree to the expenses of
the body polite.
The education Of the present day does
only very small share of its duty. It does
not save society from crime or pauperism.
There is an education that can do that
The education that teaches the dignity of
labor. The education that in the greatest
measure prccudes idleness. The average
American lad OF 16 or IS years of age who
understands selsr'hiug OF easl,eatix viii
not loaf-he viii not idle-thegeby the prob
ability of crime is greatly reduced. Eighty
per cent of those who fill the jails are the
opposite ofilliterate, and nearly all, so near
ly all that it may as we'll be said all of them
| have no trade
This demand for schools of technology is
no new doctrine. Let the citizens of Will
mipgton as matter of public interest rec
ognize its value. Let our next school
building be a school for technology And
let us demand that a certain part of the
common school education be devoted to the
teaching of trades To do so would be an
innovation, but who denies that it is an in
teligent innovation. Some of our states
have commenced this innovation. On the
floors of Congress it is advocated
European countries are far ahead of US.
We have in the United States rs industrial
and training schools with 1900 pupils. En-
gland has 800 with So, 900 pupils!
The Hon. THOMAS HARDEMAN of Geor-
gia eloquently expressed the idea as follows:
"open to the young mon of the country
inviting fields of employment in its trades
and industries and they will not flock to the
cities to crowd their dens of vice, nor resort
to the overstocked professions or uuremu-
nerative occupations in counting-rooms and
trade houses. So elevate your Industries by
proper education as to impress society with
the theory ''that industrial occupations are
proper basis of social distinction" Reor-
game your educa tional system upon the
basis Of labor, giving every man according
to his talent his own proper work, aud Gin
telligence will be added tn strength; beauty
Ard
character of man; and justice and goodness
and truth will spread, and the country will
be filled with peace and happiness"
Begin the system. Educate your boys to
work, work Systematically, work intelli-
gently, work scientifically, and labor viii We
no longer subjected to social degradation,
for it will be guided by education and iden-
titled with culture. In the language Of one
Of Epgland's roya! family, "Let learning
and earning go together" Make hand-work
a part of the education of your children and
they will group conscious of their ability to
carve out their own fortunes and command
while so doing the respect of their fellows
and the confidence and support of society
and government, ..r,A
Too much has been claimed by the friends
of education that it is preventive to crime.
Statistics go to show the significant fact of
tho very opposite, that crime has increased,
not been alleviated by education "but ter
ribly aggravated. Ourmost thoroughly ed
ucated states show an increase in intemper-
ance, illegitimacy divorce, pauperism and
crime.
Education, that is scholastic education is
not the help we must look to.
Statistics go to show however that where
paupersm decreases, all other crimes de-
: crease, almost in some cases to disappear
ance. Iu Belgium, in districts where indus
: trial schools bave been established vagrancy
has entirely disappeared, Fifty per cent of
the whole nation 80 years ago were paupeIs,
were ueSbltaIe Al PCT CSht MelS III PONSltSb
= and only per cent Of the whole number
- we're comfortable! At the present moment,
at Creuzot since an experience Of some
= years with the industrial and training
:" school system, in that city of $4,000 inhab
tants, crime and misdemeanor have almos
- entirely dis appeared, and three policemen
- give the people Of the city full protec
ton.
- Ii is asserted By all writers ON The subiec
- Of crime ''that wherever industrial ednca
tion has been established it has rapidly d
= minisbed it: ana his can not be said ef an
:" otle, education. Ms. Hardeman says, ''It
= easy to assert that education diminishC
yNN crime common education Is meant)-bt
~" those who have examined and studied erin
iual statistics do not so testify
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