Excerpt from Popular and Liberal Education
And I am the more resolved to defend its truth, on account of the opposition in sentiment it so uniformly and illiberally encounters. Neither is education itself, nor the able and accomplished conductors of it in our country, held in that high esteem, nor elevated, in public opinion, to that distinguished rank, to which they are entitled. There are Jack Cades in America, as well as in Europe, and at the present, no less than in former times; who, to propitiate the untaught multitude towards themselves, and prejudice them against the more cultivated and enlightened, exult in their own uneducated condition, decry the fruits of education in others, and endeavour to make a glory of their shame, by converting their illiteracy into a stepping-stone to power. Nor is this all. The statesman and the lawyer, the physician, the divine, and even the merchant and the planter consider themselves and their callings superior to the teacher and his calling - though they are nothing in fact but the creatures of education. In the practical pursuit of his profession, the teacher moulds and fashions them, as the sculptor does his marble, or the potter his clay. Nor have they a shadow of ground for preferring their vocations to his, but because they are less laborious, and more lucrative. That they are either more honourable in their nature, more weighty and responsible in the duties they impose, or more useful in their effects, they will not contend. That I may not, however, commence my discourse with a position deemed doubtful by any one, it is requisite that I adduce a few facts in its defence. It will be borne in mind, that, in the remarks I have already made, as well as in those I am about to make, I allude to education in the full and entire signification of the term. Enlightened and cultivated mind, and acquired dexterity of every description, are essentially its products.
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