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18T2-'73.] Document No. 5. ^
to reach every man, woman and child in the State, cannot be
made in a day. It is a thing of growth. It must grow up in
the sympathies and support of the people. Its victories are
not won in an hour ; they are the slowly developed laws,
whicn are but the rescripts of enlightened public opinion.
The extent to which the present beginning of a school sys-tem
shall be made to meet the wants of the people, will depend
upon the action of the General Assembly. The influence
which law exerts upon the prosperity of communities is strik-ingly
exhibited by the systems of public education which
nearly all civilized States and nations have adopted, or are pre-paring
to adopt. If I were asked how I could make provision
to pay the public State debt ; I would unhesitatingly answer,
educate the people and they will pay it. If I were asked how
I could convert our worn out lands into fertile fields, I would
answer : educate the people and they will do it. If I were
asked how immigration could be secured, and emigration
lessened, I would say, provide a good system of public schools.
Public education is the present pressing want of North Caro-lina.
The tables at the end of this report give the results of the
present school law from March 14th, 1872, to October the
1st. It will be remembered that the six and a half months
within these dates include the seasons of making and gathering
crops, when the great majority of the people could not spare
their children from work. The mode of starting and support-ing
schools was new to the people, and was not readily under-stood.
M iny preferred the farmer law, because it promised
more money while it continued. Others supposed that the
present law was unfavorable to the poor, because it was calcu-lated
to aid only those who could aid themselves. So that the
present exhibit cannot be regarded as a fair test of the merits
of the system.
For the purpose of making the law known to the people, I
prepared instructions which I had published with the law and
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| Full Text | 18T2-'73.] Document No. 5. ^ to reach every man, woman and child in the State, cannot be made in a day. It is a thing of growth. It must grow up in the sympathies and support of the people. Its victories are not won in an hour ; they are the slowly developed laws, whicn are but the rescripts of enlightened public opinion. The extent to which the present beginning of a school sys-tem shall be made to meet the wants of the people, will depend upon the action of the General Assembly. The influence which law exerts upon the prosperity of communities is strik-ingly exhibited by the systems of public education which nearly all civilized States and nations have adopted, or are pre-paring to adopt. If I were asked how I could make provision to pay the public State debt ; I would unhesitatingly answer, educate the people and they will pay it. If I were asked how I could convert our worn out lands into fertile fields, I would answer : educate the people and they will do it. If I were asked how immigration could be secured, and emigration lessened, I would say, provide a good system of public schools. Public education is the present pressing want of North Caro-lina. The tables at the end of this report give the results of the present school law from March 14th, 1872, to October the 1st. It will be remembered that the six and a half months within these dates include the seasons of making and gathering crops, when the great majority of the people could not spare their children from work. The mode of starting and support-ing schools was new to the people, and was not readily under-stood. M iny preferred the farmer law, because it promised more money while it continued. Others supposed that the present law was unfavorable to the poor, because it was calcu-lated to aid only those who could aid themselves. So that the present exhibit cannot be regarded as a fair test of the merits of the system. For the purpose of making the law known to the people, I prepared instructions which I had published with the law and |
