previous next

Southern school books.

We are glad to see this important subject attracting the attention it deserves in the South. De Bow's Review reproduces the report on school books which was made to the Southern Convention at Savannah, and enforces its views in an able article. The committee appointed by that Convention was required to select or prepare such a series of books, in every department of study, from the earliest primer to the highest grade of literature and science, as shall seem to them best qualified to elevate and purify the education of the South; and it was resolved that when this series of books shall have been prepared the Legislatures of the Southern States be requested to order their use in all the public schools of their respective States, and the trustees of incorporated academies be requested to adopt them as their text books. These resolutions would seem to cover the whole ground. The committee, however, has not yet acted.--We should rejoice to see the adoption of prompt measures, and not a single text book besides our own, except from England, France and Germany, in our schools.

The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. June 17, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

Institute of Museum and Library services National Leadership Grant provided support for entering this text.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Places (automatically extracted)

View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.

Sort places alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a place to search for it in this document.
Savannah, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (1)
France (France) (1)

Download Pleiades ancient places geospacial dataset for this text.

hide People (automatically extracted)
Sort people alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a person to search for him/her in this document.
De Bow (1)
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: