EDUCATION.
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The Norfolk Beacon. has the following in
some editorial remarks on education:


Without alleging that the best preparation for
active life is liberal culture of the mind, we adj
nit that under the present system OF education
the objection is unfoundeG; but, as we propose
to throw out some loose hints on this score at
the first moment OF leisure, will only add that,
under a proper system of instruction, a boy ought
to be we'll versed in the ordinary Latin & Greek
classics, in French, and in Days or Hutton's
mathematical course, at the age OF fourteen.-
That such an opiaion is not novel may be in
ferred from the fact, that all the principal col.
Ieges of the North require nearly all the above
qualifications, with the exception OF French and
a mart of the mathematical course, before stu
dent enters the Freshman class, which he may
do and is frequently done at fourteen years of age
There is tardiness in education at the South
that demands the public attention.


One ofthe bad effects of this delay in our sys-
tens of education is that it tends to encourage
that practice, already too prevalent OF putting all
BOYS who have little Latin and Greek to the
learned professions, as they are called, of medi-
cine and law, as If mankind were born mainly
to get sick or to be at loggerheads with each
other. And it will happen that young men who
are destined for the mechanic arts. must leave
the pursui, of knowledge at too early period
q
rious to the great interests of society," This tar.
dy system has also the effect of confirming that
miserable prejudice too common with parents in
the South against putting their children to trade
Ia prejudice which has done more than almos,
any thing else to injure the commercial prosper
i,y of the South, and will still work immense
evil until the good, the patriotic. and the wise
among u.s. shall strive by precept and example to
obli.erate it from The public mind. We say il
in all sincerity. that long the South sights
the mechanic arts. she will be. and she deserves
to be, the vassal of the North.


1t is our beliefthat change in the presen,
system of education will greatly tend to promote
the mechanic arts. by ipfusing into their voaries
an annual supply Of educated Southern young
men, who will be able as well as willing to ad.
vocate their own cause; and we would be happy
to learn the views Of any of our citizens on the
mode of education TO be pursued in attaining an
object so dear to us all.