Inaugural address delivered at the opening of Morrison College, Lexington, Kentucky : November 4th, 1833 / by the Rev. Benjamin O. Peers.

  • Peers, Benjamin O. (Benjamin Orrs), 1800-1842
Date:
1833
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Credit: Inaugural address delivered at the opening of Morrison College, Lexington, Kentucky : November 4th, 1833 / by the Rev. Benjamin O. Peers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [27 ] ry connexion with schools of every grade throughout the State. The Faculty of the University ought to be regard- ed, and ought to regard themselves, as State property; whom teachers and parents every where should feel free to consult, and who should consider it a privilege to be permitted toad- vise respecting the education of every child in the communi- ty. Let us establish in connection with Transylvania a de- partment for educating teachers, and let us proffer its advan- tages to all who aspire after respectable qualifications for this most important office; let us try to make it the interest of those already engaged in the arduous work of instruction, annually to assemble within her walls for the purpose of mutual improvement, and to avail themselves of the advan- tages of such lectures and on such subjects as they them- selves shall desire; and finally let us found an intelligence office, through which neighborhoods whether remote or near, may communicate with teacher., and teachers in search of employment, be made acquainted with existing openings; thus endeavouring to promote our own interest, by the sure and unexceptionable method of taking pains to promote the interest of others. Secondly. In order to multiply probabilities of patron- age and success for Transylvania, we must to a much great- er extent, adapt the character of the education she affords, to the wants and demands of the country. To accomplish this, we must bring forward and treat as in the highest degree important several branches of science which have hitherto been almost entirely neglected; I mean the natural sciences. Were there no other argument to recommend to us the study of chemistry, geology, mineralogy and botany; we find suffi- cient inducement to assign them a prominent place in our catalogue of studies, in the fact, that these are sciences of which agriculture, the great, the all absorbing interest of the western country is the art. I am far from being inclined to try to lessen in the conception of any one, the importance of classical and mathematical learning. I am happy to be- lieve that the dead languages are in not the slightest danger
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