Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-05-30

Nations like individuals are tempera-
mental i'm their moral and intellectual
attitudes and this is shown in their
schools. Germany is ~nationalistic inc
| England essentially indiKidualistic and
The universities of Berlin and oxford
cpitomize these. National development
is reached when the people have come
to such "A stage of civilization In when
they conceive Of education as a natu-
raj and necessary activity of h state
itself. and assume it's support as part
Of the cost Of progress, looking upon
schools from the lowest to the highest
nssparts of n related national effort
There are marked inequalities toward
such an educational consciousness
among the American commonwealth;
among the New England states, under
the Influence Of the English tradi-
tions, sprang up many colleges, each
a separate and independent unit. ex-
| hibiting that "~individualistie idealism
| which has been at once the strength
and the weakness of the old England
"A modern democracy will not per-
mnneEtly be satisfied with an educa-
tional system into whose higher
schools the IONS and daughters OF the
plain people can enter only through
payment Of burdensome tuition
charges or upon scholarships which at
least suggest charity" It Will claim
the opportunity to enjoy the highest
forms Of education as q right.
The early men Of the republic wonld
have looked upon a state university
browning a compulsory public school
system, az m %autocrat dangerous to
liberty. but fifty years later the men
of the middle west believed in GREAT
ing agencies with the power to do the
| work of civilized life efficiently ana
80 they adopted state systems Of edu-
cation beginning with the elementary
school and eliminating in a university
NO such exhibition of well formed
and definite educational conscious
ness was ever before seen in new
states or provinces" OF the school
system thus i~naugurated, the state
university was the most striking
achievement and remains today the
best evidence of the ability of the
people to create n conduct the
agencies which they need for their
own Development "The coming nl
the university into it's true place. must
wait upon the development of a virile
and sensitive public opinion which
will hold trustees to a strict account
and there is no snTer sign of a high
order of civic efficiency in a state
than its ability to produce n compe-
tent board Of trustees for n great uni
| versity.' who will wisely govern ana
not attempt TO administer.
A democracy demands first of all
Of its university. standards of honesty
simplicity, sincerity and thorolghness
and the highest function of a univer-
sity Is to furnish standards for a de-
mocracy." "The rise of such institu-
tons Is the most epoch making fea-
tnrc of our American civilization. They
are to Income moro and moro the
leaders ana makers Of our etviliza-
tion. They are Of the people
when u state university has gained
solid ground 1t means that the people
OF n whole state have turned their
faces toward the light, 1t means that
the whole system of state schools has
been welded into an effective agent
for civilization" THE rise Of a great
state university, Of the people n hN
the people and for the people, means
the birth of an educational patriot
ism"
r. w. n. BRYAN.