1800s Wisdom for 21st-Century America: Educate All the Children in the Land

EDUCATE YOUR CHILDREN.—One of the

most learned men of the present day,

made the following short comment on

the education of children, which we think

is very appropriate:

“If the time shall ever come when this

mighty Republic shall totter;—when the

beacon which now rises in a pillar of fire,

a sign and wonder of the world, shall

wax dim, the cause will be found in the

ignorance of the people. If our Union

is still to continue to cheer the hopes and

animate the efforts of the oppressed of

every nation; if long days of blessedness

are to attend our country in her career

to glory; if you would have the sun con-

tinue to shed its unclouded ray on the

face of freemen, then EDUCATE ALL THE

CHILDREN IN THE LAND.”—Phil. Despatch.

Source: "Green Bay Republican." 2 Apr. 1844, p. 1.