A Report on the State of Education in Pennsylvania
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Excerpt from 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, Opted by a Town Meeting of Working Men and Friendly to That Object Held in the Country House, Feb; 11, 1830; Also an Address on the Moral And Appointed at a Public Meeting, held at the Court-House in Philadelphia, on the 11th Feb. 1830, for promoting Public Education, To the Friends of a General System of Equal Public Education, in the State of Pennsylvania, Fellow Citizens - We respectfully solicit your active co-operation in carrying into effect the most important public measure that has presented itself since the achievement of our national independence and political feeedom, a general system of equal public education. From the rapid increase of population, and multiplied facilities of intercourse, the simplicity of manners that characterized the earlier citizens of Pennsylvania, is fast yielding to European customs, and our children are growing up unprovided with that mental cultivation which is so essential to the formation of a character to withstand the temptations to which they must be exposed, or counteract the machinations which the wily may invent for their circumvention. We have discarded the political errors of the old world, - let us also avoid its moral errors by adapting our popular education to our popular system of government. While internal improvement, agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and arts, are making rapid and astonishing advances, it is more astonishing that mental improvement the most essential of all improvements, should be so little cherished by our legislative agents. Millions are freely yielded every year from the public treasury for roads, canals, penitentiaries, alms houses, houses of refuge, $c., - all necessary perhaps; - but when education pleads for a share of all this profusion, she is turned off as an unwelcome intruder, with a trifle from the charity box. In every point of view education presents irresistible claims to your attention and encouragement; whether in its relation to morality, political economy, or mental and civil liberty. The moralist may confide in its efficacy for the advancement of temperance, virtue, and moral improvement. The philosopher and patriot cannot expect the pleasure of seeing his country either fully enjoying or securely preserving the privileges of religious or political liberty, without general knowledge and intelligence. Delay will multiply obstacles. Upon an average the number of children increases annually, faster than the means and resources for their education. If the present rising generation is rescued from ignorance and vice, without delay, knowledge and virtue with their natural attendants, prosperity and happiness, may be perpetuated from age to age, forever. The magnitude of the object now proposed, is worthy of a universal and simultaneous popular effort Without such an effort, prompt and vigorous, the chance of success may be lost for ages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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