The Report of the Committee Appointed at a Public Meeting of the Friends of Education
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Excerpt from The Report of the Committee Appointed at a Public Meeting of the Friends of Education: Held at the State House, in Trenton, on the Night of the Eleventh of November, 1828; Exhibiting a Succinct Account of the State of Common Schools in New-Jersey; Delivered From the Reports of the Central and Sub-Committees of Several Counties and Townshps Tin: Committee to whom was referred that part of the Message of His Excellency, the Governor, which relates to Common Schools, beg leave to present the following Report: - The subject of Education is one upon the importance of which the Committee deem it unnecessary to dwell. In a government like ours, resting for its support entirely upon popular will, it is absolutely essential that the people should be enlightened. Their virtue and intelligence are the only foundations upon which our free institutions can safely repose. It is, therefore, one of the highest obligations which can be imposed upon a free State, to provide for the Education of all its citizens. This duty, although not expressly enjoined upon the Legislature by our Constitution, as in some other slates, is nevertheless one, the importance of which they have frequently recognized. So early as the year 1817, the foundation was laid of a fund for the support of Free Schools; ´this fund, by successive appropriations, was gradually augmented until the year 1829, when it amounted to the sum of two hundred and twenty-two thousand, four hundred and forty-two dollars and seventy-eight cents. At that time an ardent desire was manifested by the people of New-Jersey, that an effort should be made by the Legislature to render the proceeds of this fund available, by the establishment of a system of Common Schools. Petitions and memorials were presented from all quarters of the State, and from all classes of citizens, invoking tho aid of the representatives of the people, on behalf of popular instruction. Tho subject was referred to a joint-committee of Council and Assembly, by whom an able and interesting report was made. A melancholy picture was drawn of the state of Education in New-Jersey. It appeared that there were nearly twelve thousand children under the age of fifteen, who were without the means of obtaining even tho first rudiment of Education; and nearly fifteen thousand persons over the age of fifteen, who were unable to read or write; and that consequently at least five thousand citizens were called upon to exercise the inestimable right of suffrage, without being capable of understanding its import, or appreciating its importance. 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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