It Is Impossible To Refrain From Telling All This, And From Making
A Little Innocent Fun Out Of The Superexcellencies Of These
Schools; But The Total Result On My Mind Was Very Greatly In Their
Favor.
And indeed the testimony came in both ways.
Not only was I
called on to form an opinion of what the men and women would become
from the education which was given to the boys and girls, but also
to say what must have been the education of the boys and girls from
what I saw of the men and women. Of course it will be understood
that I am not here speaking of those I met in society or of their
children, but of the working people - of that class who find that a
gratuitous education for their children is needful, if any
considerable amount of education is to be given. The result is to
be seen daily in the whole intercourse of life. The coachman who
drives you, the man who mends your window, the boy who brings home
your purchases, the girl who stitches your wife's dress, - they all
carry with them sure signs of education, and show it in every word
they utter.
It will of course be understood that this is, in the separate
States, a matter of State law; indeed, I may go further, and say
that it is, in most of the States, a matter of State constitution.
It is by no means a matter of Federal constitution.
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