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The Negro In America And The Ideal American Republic
The Negro In America And The Ideal American Republic Author:T. J. Morgan Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill EDUCATION OF THE NEGROES A Characteristic of the American people is their love for education. Fostered by public sentiment, there has grown up a magnif... more »icent system of schools, maintained by taxation, at an annual expense exceeding one hundred and fifty millions of dollars which, including kindergartens for the very young, primary, intermediate, and grammar schools, high schools, normal schools, and State universities, is being slowly perfected and is contributing very largely toward the education of the masses of the people. It is only a question of time when, chiefly) through its agency, the average popular intelligence in America will be higher than that ofl any other country in the world. This magnificent system is supplemented by great religious institutions and by technical and special schools founded and endowed by public-spirited philanthropists. It is not invidious to say that the system has reached a degree of efficiency in the North that is wholly unknown in the South, which is easily explained, chiefly by the fact that it was not established in the South until after the close of the Civil War, 1865. It is also notably true that most of the great universities and colleges of the country, such as Harvard, Brown, Yale, Chicago, Amherst, Williams, Cornell, Rochester ; by far the greater number of theological schools, Andover, Newton, Union, Princeton, Rochester, Chicago; and almost all of the great technical schools, are found in the Northern States. Johns Hopkins University, at Baltimore, is hardly an exception, since Baltimore is quite as much a Northern as a Southern city. The great publishing houses are in the North, so also are the most prosperous, widely circulated, and influential newspapers. It would be very surprising, therefore, if it should be mainta...« less