Report of the Joint Committee of the Two Houses of the Pennsylvania Legislature, on the Subject of a System of General Education: Together with the ... Communications on the Subject of Common - Couverture souple

Assembly, Pennsylvania General

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ISBN 10 : 1334796637 ISBN 13 : 9781334796630

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Report of the Joint Committee of the two Houses of the Pennsylvania Legislature, to whom was referred the following Resolution: Resolved, That a committee be appointed, in conjunction with a like committee by the House of Representatives, for the purpose of digesting a system of general education for this Commonwealth, and that all reports, together with the Unfinished business of last session, upon that subject, be referred to said joint committee, who are instucted to report as early as possible, by bill or otherwise. In Pennsylvania, our right of suffrage is as broad as possible. A citizen, who pays a tax of a few cents only, can go to the election, with power equal to him who contributes many hundred dollars ;and by his vote, direct the public weal, with the same authority as the inchest citizen. It becomes necessary, therefore, to give the man of humble means, an opportunity of understanding the political advantages in -which he so largely shares. Our institutions, says a great statesman, are neither designed for, nor suited to a nation of ignorant paupers. To be free, the people must be intelligently free. The number of voters in Pennsylvania, unable to read, haijrbeen computed, from data in other states, at obb hvindpcd thousand; and two thousand five hundred, grow up to be voters annually, who are equally ignorant. In a republican government, no voter should be without the rudiments of learning; for aside from political considerations, education purifies the morals, and lessens crime. Our philanthropists, who visit our jails, have ascertained that more than half the convicts are unable to read. It is better to avert crime, by giving instruction to our youth, than punish them when men, as ignorant convicts. A radical defect in our laws upon the subject of education, is that the public aid now given, and imperfectly given,; is confined to the poor. A w
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1334796637
• ISBN 13: 9781334796630
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 56
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