New-York tribune., 1903-08-29
The important Place

- ,-zl,,c Of the utteraace- While the word !.
..aros,fo,'' has come 10 have widely extended |
e.-,,ecsrce in the upward growth Of human |
a., e. sin clings close TO the original meaning |
- n. Latin 'eauoere" TO draw out
= 5scr;nc education The Century Diction- |
- sars. Education in a broad sense. with |
-...-s,ce 10 man, comprehends all that disci- !
..,,res and enlightens the UNDERSTANDING cor /,
-,~.s the temper cultiyates the taste and forms
-, manners and ha bits; in 4 narrower sense, 1t !
=. ~ srecisl course OF training pursued, as by |
-a.,e or teachers to secure one or all Of these |
ends
-re purDose OF education is TO make one
e.,s5 ~ cone successfully with the conditions
ba or she viii encounter in the course OF this
mortal existence. While the process of educa-
-,or continues as long as one possesses his fac
,,,.ies and rnav be said rot 10 END until death
nuts reriod 10 l.fe. yet the most important
tine for its requirement is in youth. and It Is
,,e- that the foundations must be laid for
-,ha-eve- st-uctu1o the adult is 10 rear as an
evr~ssgfo. of individuality. Much more depends
r,- tho initiative secured in the earliest years
.-a-. anon arg impulse due 20 later conditions.
Mar & .aaa can traco the success Of his ca
-ao- a. he s,s-t ha obtained from some de-
,o-es instructor. 5.aose personal influence woke
him up and stirred tho springs Of ambition to
become scho,a~ OF 10 embark on a career
7a.aa lc5 % influence and honor.
GIiE or i GOOD Start.
While as re hur1cr.st remarked. the wise
child chooses h-s own parcuts.' and the infu-
encc al hereii;y IS a great. and often a de-
teruiaing factor IN later life. yet II cannot be
doubted u- any student Of the lives Of men
that far mere secure the start. which means so
much ia 5hs successful working out of career,
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immediate families than from those with whom
they have reen IN close association from child
hood. in TINS respect indeed. the influence of
q good teacher Is most manifest. While some
few strong minds have seemed to he self-mov-
iug ju this respect and 70 have steadfastly pur-
sued course leading to honor and fame. de-
spite enormous difficulties and over apparently
insur. .1ountablc obstacles. and while others have
attained to great careers with the drawbacks
~ poverty ana lack Of facilities for education,
yet for the ma jority the way must be made
easy and the path plain or no advance will be
recorded
Successful men who have achieved success
despite the lack Of favoring conditions usually
depIore the fact that they did not have the ad-
vsntages afforded 10 others. and they are the
FIRST 20 give their own children every possible
opportunity 10 profit by The conditions which
these times offer u those who would he best
e4upped for life's battles
The desirabity of education has so impressed
mankind that the onward march Of the human
1ace can be marked by the growth Of conditions
favoring the securing Of II. IN fact, the most
enlightened and progressive nations are those
tn which schools are the most numerous and
the best while the relative rank Of any people
Is readily determined by what il has done for
The general education of IT'S people The Anglo
respect. and the first thing done by the settlers
~ This continent was 10 establish schools for
the children born amid the primitive conditions
surrounding the early colonists
FROM THE EARLIEST TINES.
IN this city the schoolhouse stood beside the
first church. and provision for education was
made ir The earliest years Of the occupation Of
the island Of Manhattan. From that time IN
~ tho present there has been a steady growth
- The provisions for the training Of the minds
~ youth and for the development Of the cuali-
ties which mark the best manhood and the
hest womanhood. The educational system OF
this city is OF the most ample sort for the edu-
cation AZ public expense OF all the children Of
school age, and from the kindergarten to the
college 10 branch Of mental training is neg
Iccted
But while for the vast majority Of the chill
oren Of this metropolis the public school sys-
TEN IS a necessity. and something without
which there would be little if any chance for
iHeir securing the training necessary for the
proper performance Of their work in life, there
l. also 10 be found for those who have the
means 10 secure il q more adequate and salts
factory training IN mind and morals in the
private schools, several hundred in number that
oHer the finest advantages and the best faciIi-
lies To- education in its truest sense. While
nothing should detract from the praise Justly
cue 10 the public schools by reason of their ex-
ceAenle and acknowledged merits. there is no
reason for forgetting the claims which the pri-
Flie schools have the right to put forth. and
which their record sustains. The private school
has been somewhat crowded aside in the SUI
pren,e efforts put forth TO carry the scheme Of
public school education 10 the front, but for that
very reason i Is the more priced by many care
u! students OF the educational progress Of the
time
WORK OF THE academy.
There was a period in the latter half Of the
lasi century when the private school par-
ucular.y the large academy or institute had
sTeat and growing field 20 itself. the field be-
tween The public schools Of the lower grade and
'1e colleges and technical schools. which are at
1He other end Of the educational ladder But
With the growth Of the high school system in
ne public school education plan there was
tendency 10 dispense with the great schools
q a Ike character which had TO be supported
- tuition fees. The consequence has been that
% many communities the oldtime academy has
given way 10 the modern high school, save in
Instances where there was an endowment to