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 Object: Held in the County Court House, Feb. 11, 1830. Also, an Address on the Moral and Political Importance of General Education, Delivered at the Franklin Institute, February 26, 1830, at the Request of the Town MeetingOrder of the Meeting, 1830 - 32 halaman |
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Halaman 12 - The legislature shall, as soon as conveniently may be, provide, by law, for the establishment of schools throughout the State, in such manner that the poor may be taught gratis.
Halaman 7 - ... its benefits and privileges will not, as at present, be limited, as an act of charity, to the poor alone, but will extend equally and of right to all classes, and be supported at the expense of all.
Halaman 3 - ... and sometimes the culpable apathy of the population, occasion whole districts to remain destitute of these all-important institutions. It is almost unnecessary to state that ignorance, and its never-failing consequence, crime, prevail in these neglected spots to a greater extent than in other more favored portions of the State.
Halaman 3 - ... counties. The elementary schools throughout the state are irresponsible institutions, established by individuals, from mere motives of private speculation or gain, who are sometimes destitute of character, and frequently, of the requisite attainments and abilities. From the circumstance of the schools being the absolute property of individuals, no supervision or effectual control can be exercised over them; hence, ignorance, inattention, and even immorality, prevail to a lamentable extent among...
Halaman 5 - The original element of despotism is a MONOPOLY of TALENT, which consigns the multitude to comparative ignorance, and secures the balance of knowledge on the side of the rich and the rulers.
Halaman 5 - In a republic the people constitute the government and, by wielding its powers in accordance with the dictates, either of their intelligence or their ignorance, of their judgment or their caprices, are the makers and the rulers of their own good or evil destiny. They frame the laws and create the institutions that promote their happiness or produce their destruction. If they be wise and intelligent, no laws but what are just and equal will receive their approbation or be sustained by their suffrages....
Halaman 21 - Resolved, that the time has arrived when it becomes the paramount duty of every friend to the happiness and freedom of man to promote a system of education that shall embrace equally all the children of the state, of every rank and condition. In...
Halaman 4 - Another radical and glaring defect in the existing public school system is the very limited amount of instruction it affords, even to the comparatively small number of youth, who enjoy its benefits. It extends, in no case, further than a tolerable proficiency in reading, writing, and arithmetic, and sometimes to a slight acquaintance with geography.
Halaman 6 - Philadelphia unanimously resolved that "there can be no real liberty without a wide diffusion of real intelligence . . . that until means of equal instruction shall be equally secured to all, liberty is but an unmeaning word, and equality an empty shadow.
Halaman 6 - ... unjust. It appears, therefore, to the committees that there can be no real liberty without a wide diffusion of real intelligence; that the members of a republic, should all be alike instructed in the nature and character of their equal rights and duties, as human beings, and as citizens; and that education, instead of being limited as in our public poor schools, to a simple acquaintance with words and cyphers, should tend, as far as possible, to the production of a just disposition, virtuous...