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Ours are the plans' of -fair dclightfnl poace, imtrarp'd by party rage, to live lilie brothers. MONDAY, JANUAKY 21, 1SSO. JOSEPH G A-Lifts 0$ DITORS AND PROPRIET08 . , TERlttS. Sub Rirxi5, hre loltar per tanum on half in idvarnw. I f' C3- Persons resiJins Without ihe SlaU will be i-equired to paj the wiioti amount of tbe jcar ubscription in advance). ' MZTES OF Jipr'ERTISIjrG. For every 16Ijnes (tht size type) first insertion on dollir ; each subsequent insertion 2(j. cents. Court Orders and Judicial Adtertiseraervts will hn charged 25 per cent, higher; and a deduction f 33 per cent, will hie made from the regular trice, iiir advertiwrs by! the yar ? rf Littkbs to the EJitors must be pot-paid 1 ..i - REPORT Of tii President and Directors of the Literary Fund ob North Carolina, OS1 TUK SUBJECT Qr SCHOOLS. J - 'oveniber, 1838. A Resolution adopted at, the last session of the Legislature, made it the duty of the President and Directors of the Literary Fund todigesta plan for Common Schools, suited t the condition and resources of the In 1830 her population consisted of 472, State, and to report the same for the con- 843 whites, 1 9,53 Tree persons ?of color, sideratiqn of the present General Assembly, and 245,601 slaves. The average aggre The Board have given to this subject at- gate population to the square mile was a tentive ajnd anxious ; consideration, and taken bout 14 710, and of white population 9 pains tojprocure all the information within 4 -10. The aggregate population in 1840 their reaSch, which seemed essential to en- will probably be about 850,600, or 17 to lightened legislation. ; On the - day. of the square mile, and the white population:1 last; xhe President, under the ( 550,000 or 1 1 to the square, mile. 'lhe directioii of the Board, transmilled a Cir-'. number of white children between the ages cular to the Governor of each Slate in the five& fifteen years was, in 1830, 129,583 Union, requesting copies of all legislative j in 184Gthe number will be about 150,' acts and ttthef official Documents in rela- 000, or 3 to the square mile. : :. tion to C omtnon Schools,5 either in exist- j Accurate information, with respect to the encc or contemplation. .This communica- , proportion of our citizens who have receiv tion received the favorable and general :at-'ed the benefit of a common school educa- tention, whieh the interesting subject to which it relates was so well calculated to excite; a rfd the Board, have thus been en abled to present to the General Assembly litany publications of great interest and value. . j They regret to be compelled to state in connexion' with this topic, that their efforts to procure stilt more important information, with rcsbect to the sretual state of educa tion in Iorth Carolina, have been much less successful, and that no means at their command will enable them to obtain sueh facts as are indispensable to the proper .dis charge ojTthe duty required at their hands. '' The renorts to the Senate in 1816 and J817, b the late Judge Murphey, the " let ter of Charles R. Kiniiey,' Esq., communi cated to the General Assembly by Govern or Owen in 1828, and the letters of the late President Caldwell, originally published in the newspapers and republished in pam phlet form in 1832, have been procured. not without difficulty. They contain many valuable suggestions, and will well reward the labor of the most careful examination ; but they are all eminently wanting in that which individual effort is jncompetent to supply-t-Ahe precise and minute Statement of facts! by which alone the accuracy of their theories can be tested "The Memoir on the subject of Internal improvements ana on trie resources ana finances of the State, published by Judge Murphey in 1819, is tlie first and only es say that has been made towards the. compi lation of a system of btatisties,almost as m dispensable to intelligent legislation, on the leading interests oi the otate, as a well ar Tanged account book to the proper manage ment of individual affairs : If it shaft objected folhis Report, tha like all others which have preceded it, it a- bounds in hypothesis and theory, the Qen eral Assembly will not be disposed to cen sure too harshly, the most manifest defect, when jit is apparent that none others than themselves are competent to afford a reme dy. ? The Memoir of Judge Murphey, a- bovej referred to, comprised much valuables imformation, of great interest, at the date of its'publicatrowi'atid constitutes the proud- est raonumeni to nis memory, un tne sud jectof education, however, it did not pro - fess bo enter into details, and the lapse of nineteen years has wrought greater chan- gea its the -character and condition of the State, than would be likely to occur to an ordinary observer. Since that time no ad dition has been made tg the meager, amount of Statistical knowledges There is no pub lication extant, no individual in existence, that can afford any satisfactory iuformation wiin respect i to tne number oi common fschools in the State, much less the number of pupils, the mode of instruction, the eon- dition of the school houses, the characters and (qualifications of the' instructors. In u"u it is uounteu, wnetner mere is any one competent to meet ifiese inquiries' with regard u a single county: certainly there h none without the legislative body, and yet m iia inu mucn moreis not merely desira blel and necessary, but tfldisperiable to the grekt purposes contemplated ; by the ileso lution requiring this Report. Of Ihe num ber, resourcerand condition of our -acade mies, somethfng more, and yet very little is knwn. Even the history of the Univer ty is as yet unwritten : the- subject has ascertained to be obscure by those best acquainted with it; and 'though -the institii, ho n bears the name of the State, and . has been proudly denominated . 'Hhe child of the Constitution' it precise situation and resources, the mode of instruction, government and police, theeffeet which it has heretofore had, and is likely to have hereaffer on the , morals, intelligence and character of the State, are less familiarly known than they should be- even to the conslituteduthorities of the country. The Board fcave no ajwlogy to offer for the introduction of Ujese remarks. They believe there are none more devoted than they to the best interests of their native State, and they wptild regard themselves as recreant to the hiffhest obligations of patrio tism, if, under the influence of false pride, or the disposition to pander to public vanity, they should suppress any. truth, which the public interest required to be promulgated. The inability of ihe Board to obiaiivthe full and accurate knowledge indispensable to a compliance with the command of the (General Assembly, to IJigest a plan for Common Schools, --"suited to the condition and resources of the State,' will constitute the most-appropriate apology, for the par tial and defective statements which will be offered in regard to them. f North Carolina extends over an area of 50,000 square miles or 32,000,000 of acres. tion, from their own resources, would shed great light upon our inquiries. The data at our command is vague and uncertain. Pile Hon. W. C. Johnson, of Maryland, in the course of a series of interesting ob servations en the subjectof common schools, made in the Houses of Representatives of United States, in February lat, remarks that he has seen no report from N.Caro lina vn this subject, but that it is obvious that she stands greatly in need of an im proved system of education, from the , fact that, out of one hundred and eleven , voters who gave testimony, in relation to the con tested election in the first session of the 22d Congress, twenty-eight made their marks; in other words, one third could not write their names. It must be remembered how ever, that the "Congressional District refer red to is on our western frontier, and that al though it certainly yields to no section of the State in the exhibition of mental and physi cal vigor, nevertheless, owing to its com paratively recent settlement and the sparse ness of its population, the means of eduea tion are less generally uuiuseu titan else where. . The class of individuals too whose votes are most likely to be challenged are not always the most intelligent portion of the community. But. after all. proper al lowances are made, the existence of such a fact in the 'inost populous Congressional District in the State, and the one for which it will be most difficult to provide, in any general scheme of edocation, is startling. In 1840, more than onereighth of the voters of the State will be found in this region. In the same Strict-of country, there are not more than, two well regulated Semin aries, where instruction is given jn classi cal learning : and in theses no means arc provided for the illustration of the physical sciences. "With the exception of the Uni versity, we'havebut one institution in-jthe State possessed of philosophical and chemi cal apparatus; a third wilU in a short time be supplied. There are not probably dozen Academies prepared to give instruc-1 Uon in the use of the Maps and Globes, or half'of this number furnished with Libra-1 ries. The average number of students on the- catalogues' of the University for the last ; twenty years, is one hundred and eighteen, or in the ratio of about one to every four thousand orour white population in 1830. j During this whole period however, many of our rotin? men. Drobablv. a third, were educated at the Colleges of other Sses,;i and if so, the ratio of students at college toT the white population would be as one to three thousand. . Such is the 'only information that has been obtained with respect to the condition of the Statev More full and precise details can be fur nished on the subject of our resources. But:-mjacVXcn.;wi11 De ta bede si red. IThe ? "average iValue .of ther entire: sur face of the Sfateis tiotless tharj rtwo dol lars per acre, makings the aggregate sum of opOO.OOO.dlfiiltTlie; total value of all other : species ofy-projpiertjas bfeen ebmpu tetTfrom ;,satisfactory?'datat &to be at least 136,000,00 dollars whiefii added rto the estimate of lands amounts' to two hundred millions, of dollars , ' i The small proportions of the nnntral pro- ductions of the Stateswhich finds a market within pur own borders, renders it impos sible' ta submit any calculations upon this subjeci whicn would have reasonable claims tcTaccuracy w " The state of the fund set "apart for the moii school system cherished to the extent support of common schools is exhibited in which has been shown, is well suited to the following statement of the perrkanent l& condition and resources of that com property and other, sources of revenue, Imonwealth: committed to the management of the Board. ! Let lis compare, for a moment, the re- lst.' Permanent property million of jlative advantages of the two States in both acres of swamp lands of uncertain value ; 5,000 shares of stock in the Bank of the State, and 5,207 shares in the Bank of Cape Fear, subsciibed at 100 dollars per - share; 800 shares of stock in the Roanoke Navisration Compnny, subscribed for, at 100 dollars per share, and probably worth ; half the sum ; G50 shares in- the- Cape Fear Navigation tompany, (500 subscribed lor ,oi large towns, we have greatly the advan at 50, and 100 at 100 dollars per share) jtage : and it is believed that it can be shown subjectto a like depreciation ; the dividends ; to a demonstration, that the advantage a- on 6,000 shares of stock in the Wilmington and Raleigh Rail Road Compshy, s-ubscrib- i ed for at 100 dollars per share; and 175 j by evils of an opposite nature, Loin which Hon of the State. Il Jfus estimate approxi sharea in the Club-foot and Harlow Creek we are exempt. We are blessed with a j mites accuracy, and; we add to the extent Canal Company, subscribed at 100 dollars per share, the latter of no marketable value. 2d. Sources or Revenue The tax im posed by law upon the retailers of spirit ous liquors the tax on auctioneers all monies paid into the Treasury on entries of vacant lands (except Cherokee lands) and all profits accruing to the State, fur subscriptions to works of Internal Improve ment, and from loans made from the Inter nal Improvement Fund. The transcript in the appendix taken from the report of the Public Treasurer, exhibits the whole fiscal transactions of the Board since April, 1837, and is given at length to enable those disposed to enter into the in vestigation, to satisfy themselves . of the degree'of reliance Which may be placed upon the following estimates: estimates founded upon the xoregoing statements. The Bankstoek belonging to the fund, is of greater value than the subscription-price, and this excess of value will be more than equivalent to the depreciation of the navi gation stocks.? There can be no risk, there fore, in estimating the Bank slock aud the Roanoke and Cape Fear Navigation stock at par and the Club-loot and Hvrlow Creek Canal stock as destitute of value. The value of the Wilmingt n and Raleigh Rail Road stock can only be determined by time and experience. At present favorable expectations are entertained. RKCAPITULATIOJf. 10.207 shares of Bank stock at $100 per share 500 do Roanoke Navigation $100 per share 650 do Cape Fear do Cash in the Treasury, 31 t Oc tober, 1S38 $l,02Q,700 50.000 32,500 27,285 $1, 130,485 6,000 shares of stork in Wilmington and Ralrich Rail Road tJom pany, subscribed at $100 per ! share 600,000 - MTIKATKB A X 71 IT A t 1XCOMK. I The Bank and Navigaiion stock, na I aborp, will probably yield a veartv profit of i i ner cent, on ; $1,100,000 cc.uoi) Wilmington and Rntrigh Rail Road sto-k. 6 per cent, on $600,000 36.000 Tax on retailers of spiritious liquors 2,800 do on auctioneers 1,20U Moneys paid for entries of vacant IsikU 5,000 $111,000 One of the principal sources of revenue during the last two years, viz :- interest a- nsirig from loans made by the fund for In ternal .Improvements, is omitted in the estimate, because the principal money may. be appropriated to some public work dur ing the present session, and this may or may not be a source of revenue, according to the character of the enterprize. The wamp lands are omitted, because no calcu lation can be made with respect to them on (which the Board can rely themselves, much ajfie,g ommand the assent of others. devise a system then, which shall secure instruction in reading, writing, and aritfimetic, for 150,000 children, dispers ed through the State in the ratio of three to every square mile, with the resources stated, would seem to be the precise duty required of the Board, by the last General Assembly. Massachusetts is entitled not merely to the high distinction of having given birth to the common shool system in America, but to the peculiar glory of having preceded all Other people in the efforts now making for ihe intellectual regeneration of the world. The cradle of liberty was none other rthan the cradle of intelligence, and the spirit of our free institutions can continue to exist in pone .other titan the brilliant atmosphere which gave it birth. The population of Massachusetts hit 1830 was 610,014, of 81 to each square mile of her Territory j in 1840 it will be about 710,000 and about 94 to the square mile. The number of chil dren between the ages of foufand sixteen is returned at 177,053, and the, amount ex pended for instruction is estimated at $84 1 , 00(1,, of which sum S46500ftif raised by aJ direct taxation- The latter sum is divided i annually among more than three thousand teachers. The assessed value of property of the people of tVat State in -1830 was $208,390,407, and isprdbably much great- er now. The reputation or her citizens fbtintelligence and enterprise is co-exten- siye with civilization. It is a matterjiof just pride with her Statesmen,. tnat a com- these respects. Our white population is i .spread over the Si ?.. ii... : r i ...' ji iia in me ruuu ui cicven to the square mile; her's in the pmportion of ninety-four. Density of population is a great advantage, provided it be equally dif- fused, inasmuch as the schoo brought nearer each man's d ool-house can be oor. I:i equali- jty of diffusion, owing to the non existence ! rising: from the greater density of population in Massachusetts is fully cousiterhalanced j iclunate equally salubrious, a soil of great- j er average fertility, a larger variety of pro-j of the west unsusceptible of cultivation, ductions, and more .valuable staples, a do-J we may safely conclude that at least one main between six and seven times as exten-j tenth of the State is uninhabited. There si ve, an amount of aggregate wealth nearly remain, then, 45,000 sqjiare rciles of in- as. great, and greater, man lor man, nivjded among our citizens with an equality, strik- iiigly similar to that which characterises their distribution over the State. In the relative dissemination ol intelligence, it must be admitted that the superiority is not with us, and to this cause alone, must be ascnoeu tne l-ict, tnat, with immensely i greater facilities for the production of wealth -wre have so little surpassed our ceen sighted rivals. , Neither argument nor example is necessary to prove that the en terprise, and consequent wealth of every nation, is in a direct proportion to ifcKintel ligence. It is the history of the world,and the experience of every individual. &A comparision of the relative advantages of North Carolina, with either of the States that has entered upon the great career of improvement, will serve to show there is nothing connected with the condition and resources of this commonwealth, that should deter the patriot fron (he attempt to dis charge fits duty. New York, rennsyl- vania, and the infant Collosus, Ohio, are apposite and cheering examples. Ihe empire State, that astonished the world, by the accomplishment of a physical improvement,- a century in advance of the age,'1 has effected infinitely more for our coun try and mankind, in the admirable organi zation of her system of intellectual im provements. With a territory not quite equal in extent to ours, an aggregate popu lation perhaps three times as great, she has established more than ten thousand common schools, in which, instruction is given to a larg t number of children than that of our whole white population. If De Witt Clinton had never been born, and the first conceptions of tgr whole scheme of Internal Improve inrjd3iwere yet to be formed, they would certuiffty and inevitably result from her common school system. It is mind that acquires dominion over matter, and educa tion that forms the; mind. Pennsylvania entereu comparatively late into the gener ous contest of phys'eal and intellectual im provement,' but she entered with a giant's stride, and has made and is making a giant's progress; With an extent of territory. leps by one-tenth than ours, an aggregate population twice as large, her system pro vides for -the immediate instruction of 300,- 000 children, at an annual expense of $600- 000. 1 ms expense, let it be remembered, has been voluntarily assumed by her citizen, at the polls, in their several school districts, and at a lime when they were charged with the maintenance of a system of inter nal improvements, extetfsive and costly be yond all parallel. Ohio, that in the mem ory even of the middle aged men of the present generation, was a wilderness, promises to outstrip alt her sisters in physi cal and intellectual improvement. One of her citizens is entitled to the proud dis tinction pi having given the first impetus to the greatest physical improvement of the age ar.d another.t a forest born Profess or, has, probably, accomplished still more gigantic results, by the interest which he lias excited in favor of education in his na tive State, and throughout our country. It cannot be necessary to enter more exten sivel) into these calculations. Our condition is not unfavorable to the establishment of common schools ; we have the necessary resources, and need nothing but the will to apply them liberal ly, and the intelligence to apply them with discretion. . With respect to the mode of application, we have fortunately access to more satisfactory information, than on any other topic, that has engaged our attention. The regret that we have not been enabled to act eflicieiitly , at an earlier period, is lessened by the consideration that we are enlightened by the recorded experieircSpf those who have preceded us. If 4here were widely discordant opinions, as to the best mode of national enlightenment, we might still experience much difficulty in arriving at satisfactory conclusions, . So farhowever,' as the Board have bad an opportunity of examining the. history of education in the old and new world, the ffltode of procedure is substantially the same la Sweden. Pxus$iiSGermanv I Ausm,a R""a. e ijiachinefy is arT -ranged with a celerity, nd -the Jtcm pnr j -Dr. Drake, f Professor Stow. sued with a vigor peculiar to the operation of despotic forms of government. , Jn this cdiintry, where thej people are sovereign, action implies deliberation, & to deliberation are sometimes incident, hesitation & delar. In digeslinff the I system of common schools, now to be submitted, the Board cniin ir insinseives no original i t i i v. ' r : lity of con ception. They have done nothing more thnp to endeavor to adapt to our condition andpurposes, machinery which has been well tried, and found; eminently useful else where. i Of the 50,000 square miles,' or,3P00, 000 acres, constituting the-surfaoe flrth'LcBuperiilkriiaiit of common schbols Carolina, a million and a half j estimated by the Engineers appointed to examine them, to consist of vacant and in- accessible swamp lands in the .Eastern sec-4 of the swamps,, the 'mountainous districts habited territory. If this area be divided into common- school districts, six miles square, or as nearly so as the nature of the country will admit, , the State will contain 1250 districts. If the population were dif ffused throughout theState, with precise equality, each district would contain about one hundred and eight children, between the ages of fve and fifteen, and the most re mote child would be a little more than four miles, in a direct line, from the centre of hissdistrict, while thej greater number would be !es than half the jdistance. It may be. very desirable, and certainly will be so ultimately; to have smaller dis tricts and more numerous' schools. New York, wa have seen has divided ihe ''same extent of territory, in; to more than ten thou sand districts. She has, however, nearly 5 times as many children to provide for. and Lt is a matter of much regret with her most intelligent citizens, that they have not few er, smd consequently! better shools. The division proposed, would, if our counties were all of the same extent, give about nineteen schools to each county. As stated in the optset, the Board have no rneas of ascertaining, but the opinion is confidently entertair.ed, that there have been at no time a dozen good schools sus tained in the most populous and wealthy of our counties. It s believed, moreover, that if the requisite funds were at the com mand of the Board, the establishment of a greater number of schools would not be de sirable, for the obvious reason that it would be impossible to supply them with compe tent instructors. Indeed, as will hereafter be shewn, the greatest difficulty to be en countered, in this great effort at intellectu al reform,, will be in commanding the servi ces of proper school masters. ; The districts havingbeen laid off by des- i ignated boundaries, a school-house is in the next plnce to be erecjted, at a proper place, of suitable materials,! aud on the most judi cious plan. As the rising generation is to p:ssa deeply important, interesting, and the most impressible portion of life in these tenements, the mode of construction is a matter of no small moment. Indeed much of the efficacy and ;succes of the whole system, will depend upon the model which shad be selected, and the manner of its ex- petition. Too much attention cannot be The edifices should I bestowed upon either! be pleasantly situated : should be neat and comfortable, and as they may, on an ave-, rage, afford the only opportunities of in struction to 108 children, they must be spacious. In no community, hoAvever, will the whole, or nearly the" whole num ber of children, everibe sent to school at the same time. The accompanying report of the Secreta ry of the Board of Education of Massachu setts, on the subject of school houses, con tains all the information on this head (hat can be desired, and obviates the necessity of farther remark here. The districts hav ing been designated, and the requisite school houses erected, the difficult question re turns upon us how are instruclers to be provided ? No.onecapable of forming cor rect opinions upon the subject, and conver sant with the state of things around us, can suppose for a moment, that we can find twelve hundred and fifty, properly qualified instructors, in North-Carolinabr an con siderable proportion of this number. They cannot" be had from the North, if it were desirable to employ others than those rear ed in our own State, for the difficulty of ob taining them is much more loudly comv plained of in Ohio,Pennsylvania,NeyYork, and even in Massachusetts than here. What then is to be done ? We will be compelled to adopt the course. crowned with sueh per fect success at Hofwyll, in Switzerland, m Prussia, and Germany, and which is now in the progress of successful experiment in New YoTKantl abt)uito he adopted in Ohio, Pennsylvania & Massachusetts.. A scheme, pressed with so much earnestness and abili ty ori the attention of the citizens of this State; by President Caldwell,' in bis "vol ume of letters published in 1832, and which indeed , constituted his only plan' and hope for the improvement of our common schools. We mast establish Normal schools for the education'of onr own 4eaehersahd we neecf ttuieriam no nope oi aecompusiung iuc fa vorite object oi tne otate in any. other way. New York has endowed a separate. ofe partment in each :qf her .teiristrieiSiwie raies, for the instructirni of Wmmon; school teachers. It has had e'lenlBCtIrau'y of giving increased reputaftotttdluSe least ap preciated, but most useful, of;, all the learn ,ed professions, . and . promises, a.-, radical change.forJTe better, in the schools through out that State. The graduates of tleseNor mat schools are sought for with the greates avidity, and notwithstanding all the efforts that have been" made to. give efficiencyto these departments, the supply kis: by no means commensurate with the demand; in Pennsylvania, advises the establishment pi faut practical Institutes in different sec tion of the State, the procurement of suita bleiibraries and apparatus, and a faculty of six professors for each invoicing an. annu al expenseof $40,000. 4 If these views needed the confirmation. either of argument orauthorit they would find both in the subjoined extract from herf report of the Board of Education of Mass adiusetts, made ont the 20th of April last. Governor Eyerett is Chairman of this Board, -and i is almost superfious tb remark thai . there is no individual, whose opinions are entitled to more weight on all subjects con ; nected with education. , . ? Vi yhe subject of the education of teachers ,i xf the very highest importance in connection with th improvement of our schools. .Tliat there ar ; Ie grees of skill and soccess on the part of teachers, is a matter of loo familiar observation to need repeti tion ; and that these must depend, in no small jrfa giee, on the experience of the teacher, anil iiir .his formation under a good discipline and method uf IK- struction in early life, may be admrtted without ds rogatia'i in any measure from the importance q natural gifis aud aptitude in fitt ng men for this w for the other duties of society; Nor can it t deem ed unsafe to insist, that while occupations requiring a very humble degree of inlelledual etTort and at tainment,' demand a fonjr an2 conlinned traininor. it 1 cannot be that, the arduous aud manifold doliei .olf me insirucier oi youia snouiu oe as wen perlormea without as with specific preparation for them. tn fact it masth admitted as the Toice of reason and experience, that institutions for the formation .of teachers must be established among us, before the all important work of forming the minda- of our children, can be performed in the beet possible tnAn' ner, and wiih the greatest attainable success. . No one who has been a witness of ;tbe easa and effect with which instruction is imparteil by one teacher, and the tedious pains taking and aa satisfactory progress which mark the labors of n ther of equal ability and knowledge, and operating on minds equally cood, can entertain a doubt that! there fs a mastery in teaching as in every other art Nor is it less obvious, thai within reasonable, nmila, this skill ao.d, this.maBicry may themselves be mada the subjects of instruction and be communicated to others." " ";4'l4! "" We arc not left to the deductions of teajori on this subject. In those foreign countries where , tie greatest attention has been paid to the work; of eJu cation, sell oofs for teachers have formed an impor tant feature in their systems and with the happiest results. The art. of imparting instnictkn,haA bfn found like every other at t to imprQve renjttyatioti in institutions established for that specific wbject. New importance has been attached to the calling of the instructer, by public opinion, from the circum stance, that his vocation has been deemed one re quiring systematic preparation and culture. -m The duties which devolve upon the teachers even of our common schools, particularly when attended by large numbers' of both sexes and of advanced 5-ears, for learners, (as is often the case), are various and difficult of performance ; fer their faithful exe cution, no degree oi talent and qualification U" too great, and when we reflect in ahe nature of thing,' that only a moderate portion of both can, ia ordina ry rases, be expected for the slender compensation afforded the teacher, we gain a new view of the ne cessity of banging to his . duties, the advantage of - previous training in tbs best mole of discharging mem." , . . w -i-v . 4 A very considerable part of the benefit jvhich those who attend our pcbobls might 'derive . from them, is Unquestionably lost for the want of more skill in the, business of instrucdon on the part of the teacher.. This falls with special Vhardnes;on that part of Fonthful populaiion who are aide to eu-' joy, but for s small pbriioii of tbe jear the .4fan- tage ol tne schools, r or them it is of pecoliar im portance, that from the moment of ehterios tm school, every hour should be employed to ihe1 greatr, est advantage, and every facility in acquiring knowl edge, and every means of"awakeiiiiig and 'jguiding the mind be put into instant operation ; and when this is done, two -months' of schooing would be os valuable as a ytar passed under teaCbtfr deslL.' iuie 01 experience anu SKin. . , ; t ; If the Legislature should'detemine to es tablish a 6mgle school of this chajacterV the public convenience "will, of courselreauire that it shall be located near the centre' of" the State. If the board. Were authorized to the UniversityV and fo ; annex io ihaf insti tutiqn a department fur the instruction of common. 'school teachers, a less numerous faculty might be rerjuired, than for aisepa rate school. The libraries, apparatus,-geological and niinerological cabinets, would subserve equa(fy, lne. purposes of boUi That institution now receives wi thou tcharge . either for tui'tibri'Or, room reirt, (every .na tive of the State," destitute of the meant, of . f education, whojdjpoii examination by the faculty, U bfetieyed po?iess jiirauifte him a;valaabte member of ioaety;(4iii " There can bejho difficulty in pronQancing "thai the Tnisje irif ot Wneroleh hbiild promise still orore extended, useful- " If if syitem of iaaon ichoola of tnii ur similar extent should d' faTorwith.jti General AssembJy;4ttwiU next become ne cessary to inquire more particularly into th aanonnt of expendimre' it will iitvoIVe, jtnd the manner in which the requisite funds fia be provled, C h '" ' v - .The nett annual revenrieTbf the JfJtem$r Fund, as at present constituted, eannot,':'ai r -
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