The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany Volume 36 - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1844 Excerpt: ... We had intended in this article to consider our position in its external character, or as it appears to an observer of outward relations, and should have preferred to include our whole survey of the present state of our denomination in one article; but a due regard to the space we may allow ourselves in the present number, compels us to defer what remains to be said. E. S. G. Art. X.--COMMON SCHOOLS. Ever since the establishment of the Massachusetts Board of Education, we have watched its operations with the greatest possible interest. The Board itself we regard as the natural, and almost necessary fruit of the genius and institutions of the State. The people of Massachusetts have, from the commencement of their existence, felt, in an unexampled degree, the importance of the education of their children. With a barren soil, a six months' winter, an inhospitable climate, a limited territory, they have clearly seen that their only dependence, for comforts at home and respectability abroad, was on their intelligence, industry and energy; that these were the only internal resources to be relied upon; and that these could only be developed by competent teachers. The condition of the Common Schools has therefore, from first to last, been looked upon with a somewhat jealous attention. Notwithstanding this fact, the opinion had become more and more prevalent, for some years previous to 1837, that the schools had fallen from their original high condition; that they were not what they had been, nor what they were intended to be; still less were they what they might be, and ought to be. There was no resisting this conviction. The facts were too notorious to be kept out of sight. And though people love to deceive themselves, and to cry, all is well, when all is not well...