The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1900-06-06

a remarkable fact, but one historically true,
that in the daysof Cyrus public education eH-
listed. And In China, 90 years b. C., schools in
which writing, history and arithmetic were
taught were sustained by the local authorities.
We boast Of our odern education, and yet,
nearly 1000 years ago, the great teacher, ouin-
tillian, was paid salary out Of the public
funds, while IN the year las, A. D., AnionInus
Plus established school for orphans. A thou
sand years ago the Moorish Uniyerslty Of Cor
dova had 100000 Volumes and At the end Of the
twelfth century there were 10000 students al
Rologna scholars from every cline attended
the free school taught by socrates, while Plato
his disciple, wrote the first treatise on educa.
tiou. instruction, Plato insisted, should be en-.
trusted TO the state aud education in Athens wa
compulsory The right Of women to be educa,
ted, found in the Athenian philosopher its fir
and allest advocate, right which oxford, il
common with many OF the foremost universe
ties, today recognizes. The wisdom Of III,
Greek is demonstrated IN the fact that but re-
Gently there went forth from the English Uni.
versity a W nan whose paper on Roman law
was held by the examiners to be the ablest ever
presented by student OF either sex in that in.
stitution The effect of education upon peo-
pie eau find no better Illustration than IN che
change wrought Through the teachings OF Ober-
lin n the inhabitants OF Ran dc la Roche He
found them haltsavage and ignorant; he left
them reaned and educated. appreciate the
difficulty OF establishing and maintaining a
thorough system OF education in Georgia. THAT
dinicnlty arises from two cause.-the spare
ness OF population In certain sections OF the
state and the absence Of sufficient number Of
competent teachers. The one dinieuity has
been met in sweden and Norway by ambulatory
schoOisI The other can be met wise and lib
oral legislation.
Ii is seldom, however, that legislation Is ever
in advance OF public opinion, and to you who
make publ opinion and who consequently con-
troll legislation, I speak today. Ii would be
much caster for me to build castles in the air
than to eOnans my remarks to the subject Of
this address, but feel that no man should rise
to speak to an audience Of his countrymen and
women withou. his saying or attempting to
say something which will elevate or ennoble
them.
insist that the supreme law, that Of the safe
ty Of the republc,denands that the state should
educate her children. male and female. The
woman is today hread-winner. and she should
be 40 equipped that she may use her talents to
the best advantage on any and every aeld Of
human endesvor
But in our efforts to afford higher education
70 women we should not forget that the boys
are being anowed to abandon their studies as
soon as they have completed the grammar
school. The result Of this narrow misguided
policy win be that the charm OF cOmradeship
between husband and wife viii be destroyed,
for the bright. cultivated, educated woman will
and herself mated to a clown. When the man
teels that he is inferior to his wife IN culture
md education he will lose his personal pride
md self-respect happy home life win become
ap0ssi0ls and he WIN degenerate into mere