A Report on the State of Education in Pennsylvania; Accompanied with Two Bills for the Establishment of a General System of Public Instruction and Other Proceedings, Adopted by a Town Meeting of Working Men and Others Friendly to That (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ADDRESS ON EDUCATION, Delivered at the Franklin Institute, on the 26th Feb. by request of a Public Meeting for Promoting general and free Education, held at the District Court Room, on the llth of Feb. 1830.?By the Rev. M. M. Carle. It must be matter of high gratification to the patriot and philanthropist, to see that the important subject of Education is beginning to attract public attention. To see that we are about to be aroused from our slumbers, to manifest signs of life and wakefulness, and to put forth our energies in effecting the moral and intellectual improvement of our children and of our species. I rejoice that this subject has been taken up by the people, the yeomanry of our country: this is the point where it ought to commence; the centre of motion should be here; since it is here the pressure lies, it is here the want is chiefly felt. But there are other reasons for gratulation and joy. What is the fact which presents itselfto our notice? We see that class of our fellow citizens, who form the very muscle and sinew of society, lifting up their voice and uttering a most distinct expresion. We see them calling public meetings and inviting the citizens to co-operate with them. And what is the object? To scatter the seeds of discontent and disunion! To destroy existing institutions, or trample on civil authority! To abol ish all distinctions and introduce a levelling system, that phantom, that chimera by which millions of our race have been deluded? nothing like it! They urge the subject of education! they urge that the door may be opened and a way prepared, and a system established, by which every child in the commonwealth may have an opportunity of improving that by which he alone is distinguished from the inferior animals, his mind? his rational nature; the affe...