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George Washington Atherton

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Description:Excerpt from Relation of the General Government to Education: A Paper Read Before the National Teachers Association, at Elmira, New York, August 6th, 1873 It may be considered a fortunate circumstance that, in any discussion of educational subjects, we can take for granted the existence of a well-nigh universal conviction, among all classes of our citizens, that education is, in a republic, an absolute necessity. We may not all be able to give, offhand, the best reasons for the faith that is in us; we may not even have attempted very carefully to define them to ourselves; we may differ with each other, too, as to the means and methods of education, and the degree of advancement to which it should be carried on at the public expense; but these things are incidental and, for the most part, on the surface. Beneath them all lies a profound and immovable conviction, which, as it was not established by any process of reasoning, so requires none to confirm it, that, by some means or other, we must have education. Assuming, therefore, ladies and gentlemen, that there can be no difference of opinion among us respecting this one fundamental principle, I shall not need to waste time in attempting to prove what all believe. I propose to discuss the single question of the relation of the United States Government to this branch of our social polity, and to consider how far the work of public education can wisely be undertaken or promoted by that agency. The subject is very much complicated in this country by the peculiar form of our political organization. In other countries, when "the government" is spoken of, we immediately understand by that term the national government, the supreme central authority. But under our system we have distributed the powers between two nearly independent organizations. Our entire national domain is broken into certain accidental and arbitrary portions, each forming a unit of political organization which we call a "state." The entire domain, again, embracing these several units and the outlying territories, organized and unorganized, forms the larger unit which we call the "nation." Between these the functions of the sovereignty, that is, the collective, organized will and authority of the whole people, are divided. Some of the powers and duties of sovereignty we assign to the state governments; others to the national government The former are wholly such as affect the relations of citizens to each other within the limits of their own state; the latter extend for some purposes within these same boundaries, but, for the most part, deal with interests which concern all the states alike (including foreign relations), or some one of them in relation to others, or, the citizens of some one in relation to the citizens of another. 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Relation of the general government to education. A paper read before the National Teachers' Association, at Elmira, New York, August 6th, 1873 1873 [Leather Bound]. To get started finding Relation of the general government to education. A paper read before the National Teachers' Association, at Elmira, New York, August 6th, 1873 1873 [Leather Bound], you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from Relation of the General Government to Education: A Paper Read Before the National Teachers Association, at Elmira, New York, August 6th, 1873 It may be considered a fortunate circumstance that, in any discussion of educational subjects, we can take for granted the existence of a well-nigh universal conviction, among all classes of our citizens, that education is, in a republic, an absolute necessity. We may not all be able to give, offhand, the best reasons for the faith that is in us; we may not even have attempted very carefully to define them to ourselves; we may differ with each other, too, as to the means and methods of education, and the degree of advancement to which it should be carried on at the public expense; but these things are incidental and, for the most part, on the surface. Beneath them all lies a profound and immovable conviction, which, as it was not established by any process of reasoning, so requires none to confirm it, that, by some means or other, we must have education. Assuming, therefore, ladies and gentlemen, that there can be no difference of opinion among us respecting this one fundamental principle, I shall not need to waste time in attempting to prove what all believe. I propose to discuss the single question of the relation of the United States Government to this branch of our social polity, and to consider how far the work of public education can wisely be undertaken or promoted by that agency. The subject is very much complicated in this country by the peculiar form of our political organization. In other countries, when "the government" is spoken of, we immediately understand by that term the national government, the supreme central authority. But under our system we have distributed the powers between two nearly independent organizations. Our entire national domain is broken into certain accidental and arbitrary portions, each forming a unit of political organization which we call a "state." The entire domain, again, embracing these several units and the outlying territories, organized and unorganized, forms the larger unit which we call the "nation." Between these the functions of the sovereignty, that is, the collective, organized will and authority of the whole people, are divided. Some of the powers and duties of sovereignty we assign to the state governments; others to the national government The former are wholly such as affect the relations of citizens to each other within the limits of their own state; the latter extend for some purposes within these same boundaries, but, for the most part, deal with interests which concern all the states alike (including foreign relations), or some one of them in relation to others, or, the citizens of some one in relation to the citizens of another. 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Relation of the general government to education. A paper read before the National Teachers' Association, at Elmira, New York, August 6th, 1873 1873 [Leather Bound]. To get started finding Relation of the general government to education. A paper read before the National Teachers' Association, at Elmira, New York, August 6th, 1873 1873 [Leather Bound], you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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