The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-10
EDUCATION.
Lessons of the Paris Exposition.
Tho Progress the World Has Made
in Pedagogics.
The Training Of tho Hand Becoming
More General.
How the United Statos Stands as to
Other Nations
The American Exhibition Makes Poor
Showing-Tho Boston School thu
Representative Of Our Pub
lie School System.

lie School System.
PARIS, June 0.-Thc educational exhibit
in the Paris exposition demonstrates clear
ly that q new era is firmly established in
the thought OF the world concerning the
means, methods and objects Of schooling.
The evolution in education has been
from the minority in the highest social
plane toward the majority in the lowest
social plane As It has proceeded, the
standards have been subjected TO a revolu-
ton, complete aud without doubt porna.
ucnt, The models OF the academies OF
Greece, with their abstract disputations,
served the little area Of rejecting mankind
until the invention Of printing.
The industry Of secluded stu dents and
the zeal Of enthusiastic copyists preserved
the texts which constitute for all ages the
foundations Of culture, but their multiple.
cation 10y machines didn for two centuries
seriously affect the conventional procedure
OF training few out Of every thousand for
the duties nppertainns To professors OF
sacred aud profnnc learning who, in turn,
passed lew Others in each thousand
along the beaten paths Of He'll cnlc and
Roman authors, and presented them upon
the threshold OF metaphysics which few
crossed except for proiiiess wrangling
The idea oi including within the scope OF
education the industries OF civilization re-.
NAMED for later ages. when the daring Of
the sailor and the tread Of armies brought
the distributed races face 10 face.
Democracy aud commerce, aud tho
slowly operating spirit Of Christianity
/ which they have In part anlagonized and
| In part promoted combine in our own
! time tp establish new order.
The total ciliccmsnt OF the antiquated
| and exclusive privilege oi high culture Is
shown IN every portion Of the Exposition.
| Higher instruction there Is preserving the
monumental works ot earlier genius IN lit
eraturc, but the new epoch, while cher
ishing these works, has a different rs well
~ complimentary means Of developing in
tcllsencc. II IL resolved that creation
shall accompany reelection. ltisnol merely
literature; Il IN industrial. II h not solely
Tor the refinement OF the minority II IA Tor
the god m the entire people.
The French educational exhibit pre-.
scniF this revolution IN education with
remarkable compr,li>slvencss The iirst
country to cast of - ,'onal exclusive
| t,tr.t,i,I ,,,g 81 'NIy ,,.,.,,I,. a ~,
most profitable indus Lon0 which de-
sign enter are cNplui >ldition TO
! a representation Of thctiif DOL sys-
tenn Of Pan. seventy Of - seven
departments OF tho Il, a I've re-
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auspioca maniic.ling ccasclcrs activity Of
the people. n The national sysl',i iinds aug
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