The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-31
THE THREE R,s AND THE arnr11s.
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(Continued from Fourth Page.) drawing book? Or that B., the re- | nowned musician, drove his teacher | nearly to desperation with his vibrant | ceiling-piercing singing of do, me, sol, | do? Or that C., the noted writer, was l the best rhetorician of his class at the | old Hillhouse High school? Or that D., the eminent and brilliant jurist, got the | first and best training for his life-work in the old academy as he screwed up his brows over his translation of Cice- l ros orations, or bent with thoughtful countenance over Walkers Political l Economy" An, Mir. Correspondent, you tell us that these young aspirants would win their laurels whether the state helped them or not. You believe. we take it. that, poor or not, let them once make up their minds to it and they can get through Yale and get their degree. May be so, may be so, once their ambition is fixed. But where does l our doctor learn that he must some day write M. D. after his name or dieY Is it not as he bends over his sugges- tive physiology or studies charts of the complex organism of the human body in the class room? And yet, very like ly, our correspondent would call physi- ology "frill;" unnecessary to the edu- cation of the young mechanic or mer- chant Where does our brilliant legal lumnary first discover that he has power over opposing minds, which, added to a certain natural legal bent, points out the bar as pre-eminently his forte? Is it not in the debating society of the High school? Perchance, as he is skillfully bringing out the pros or cons of the question. "Is the cow of more benefit to man than the horse or the trolley car?"--or some equally in- teresting and fruitful subject for dis cussion.
 It may be true that the more brilliant of these minds would get through somehow and get their degrees without the states help. But why shouldn't the state help them? She always has: God grant she always will. Good old Connecticut! not often before has she been stabbed to the heart by one of her sons daring to call her higher educa- tion, conducted under the supervision of competent educators, nothing but "frills." And to think a New Haven man, mayhap son of Father Eli him self, for he writes like a collegian, should be the one to strike the blow. "Wounded in the house of her friends?" Aye, even so.
 No, while we believe very considera- bly in manual and practical training, and are glad that New Haven can boast fine Manual Training school we are heartily certain that the city must also take into consideration the very patent fact that all her students will not be carpenters and printers, but that some of them must give the car- penters their work to do and that oth- CTS must furnish "copy'' for the print CT: while still others yet must even make the laws that govern education, that govern the teachers and the taught--those laws which to-day make Connecticut to rank with the highest states of the Union in all that pertains to culture and education.
 And would it not be disgrace to Connecticut and to New Haven, her best beloved of daughters, to leave, as the correspondent of the Herald appa- rently wants us to, the early education of her lawyers and ministers, her sol ' diers and statesmen, her college profes- sors and governors to such inadequate private schools as they might be able to find, and to afford; and for New Ha- ven to turn out of her public schools yearly a race of merely honest and skillful carpenters and plumbers and masons and manual workers of aI kinds? We honor these skilled arti. sans Neither Connecticut nor the country can do without them. "The life blood of a country Is in it's arti
 sans" Even so. But just as true it Is that the brains of country are in its professional men. Let New Haven no
 try to shift her privileges or her re
 responsibilities. Let her economizt
 where she must, but let her realize tha
 she has duty to the well-to-do. tn,
 cultured classes, as well as to the poor
 The rich need the public school full al
 much as the poor do. They need it
 wholesome democracy its equalization '' and discipline, it's practical teaching
 which holds, I'm as good as my broth
 CT and not whit better" its freedom from pampering and pride, from pom
 posity and partiality. And let the cit,
 of New Haven remember that, if
 clips off it's frills of higher education k and culture from the public school cur IuiCuluIl dilu ICuuCco lt III dlly SAtClll U y the oId-time simplicity of the three R's
 that by so much will it lose the elemen Id of the better class of citizens, who vii
 seek in private institutions to satisf
 that thirst for a broad and universe
 knowledge which they can no longe
 assuage in the public school To d
 this is to build up an unsurmountabl
 wall of caste. For to bar out this clas | II ,r eral clipping of those advanced studies :, inadequately denominated "frils" b Il the writer for the New York Herald i
 a very apparent effort to win his poin W by taking refuge in ridicule and catch d | words.
 V GENEVTEVE HALE WHITIOCK. |. Ill., To-