The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-21
Ole @essenum.
THE EDUCATIONAL OUTLOOK In
NORTH CAROLINA.

occasion for graduation and thanks
giving. 1t shows the people are awak-
ing more and more as to the greatness
sity and Importance Of educating their
sons and daughters-giving them the
best advantages within reach and thus
preparing them for the rubs, conflicts
and rivalries of life. 1t is wisely done
thus far, but not one half has been
done yet to redeem North Carolina
from just censure and invidious COM
parison. 1t Is published to the country
at large that the recent statistics show
that in the south, but 6 per cent. Of
the youth (boys) between fifteen and
twenty years of age attend school. It
is indeed most lamentable If that Is the
case. 1t is calamitous. Ignorance
abounds, and out Of this Ignorance law
makers and officials are to come to a
great extent. The south must wake
up and educate well it's youth Of both
sexes OF the two classes the girls
have the advantage in opportunities
are better cared for. If this keeps on
the south will in self defence be driven
to give the suffrage to the women-as
the only educated class-and let them
do the powwowing in campaigns and
hold the offices. And then we will have
fine times in the south. 1t is a shame
the boys are not better treated and
have not better advantages fu%rnisherd
them for educating themselves. Parents
and friends should make every possible
sacrifice to give the boys scholastic
educations. Once impaired none but
God can deprive a man of what he
gathered in youth n garnered in his
mental store house. Education of the
right kind is beyond rubies. 1t equips
man for life. 1t puts him on a solid
vantage ground. 1t will not make a
fool wise but it will give a man of I'M
Outstanding great advantage over the
unlettered man of equal original men,
tai endowment. See to 1t that the boys
have a fair showing in the race for
success.
The university should nave today L.
coo eager aspiring youth. 1t is a beau
tiful place and most inviting. Cover
nor Seymour, of Connecticut, said when
he visited 1.-THE HILL" that it was the
handsomest natural site for aa univer-
sity he ever saw, and he did not think
its equal could be found among north
ern colleges.
Well patronized as the other state
schools are as we'll as the denomina-
finnoI co1Iaooc for both cavac fhoxy
ought all to have quite double the
number they will have this term. The
youth are in the state needing the
friendly, helping hand, and if they had
the proper chance offered them the col
leges would be overrun, and thousands
of North Carolina boys would now be
enjoying whatever advantages the uni
versity and the colleges offer.
We are very glad indeed to know
that the great influx of students at the
university-promising over 500 matri-
culates-has not given any setback to
UNCONVENTIONAL schools, but all are
n~ourishing together. Education hould
not be a jealous mistress brooking no
rivals, but should be h~ospitable to all
corners, with open arms of welcome and
doors standing widely apart to hasten
the coming.
1t is really both a necessity and
noble duty to engage in educating the
youth of a land. 1t is a duty of pecu-
liar Importance in a free country where
the p~erpetuity of real liberty and pros
perity depends SO very much upon the
intelligence and virtue of the people.
Ignorance is the child of superstition
and is Graded in self-will and credulity,
and is unfit to govern any person,
BILE of governing itself. Education
means more than mere knowledge. 1t
means government-tO discipline the
passions, the feelings, the natural man.
1t means, as the great Daniel Webster
declared, to impart in the soul worthy
motives" while also "a profound religi-
Gus feeling is to be instilled and pure
morality i~nculcated." We would pre-
fer saying profound religious princi-
pie" because principle is a higher
Oil Ia iAo SioAA SNSA
feeling, as we see it. Horace, the most
popular of the Latin poets, appears to
have had at least a glimpse of what con-
stituted true education for he wrote
hat unless your cask is perfectly
clean, whatever you pour into it turns
sour" You u rave right principles
implanted if the tree shall bring forth
good fruit. An enlightened public sem
timent is needed and then al educa-
tion of the mine and heart and hand
will follow equal to all demands of
citizenship and all the claims of honor
and patriotism.
We find quoted in the North Carolina
Journal of Education a fine sentiment
we suppose uttered by John Henry
Pestalozze. 1t runs:
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