Waterford High School - Fordian Yearbook (Waterford, NY)

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INFLUENCE OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS. - There never were truer things said than the following, which are in the language of Rev. Mr. Chapin - - We commend the paragraph to all: The public school house says to the poorest child: 'You are rich in this one endowment, before which all external possessions grow dim. No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane, upon which every human being stands by virtue of his humanity; and from that plane mingled now in the Common School with the lowliest and the lordliest, we give you the opportunity to ascend as high as you may. - We put into your hand the key of knowledge, leaving your religious convictions, with which we dare not interfere, to your chosen guides. So far as the intellectual path may lead, it is open to you. Go free!! And when we consider the great principles which are thus practically confessed; when we consider the vast consequences which grow out of this, I think that little district school house dilates, grows splendid, makes our hearts beat with admiration and gratitude, makes us resolve that at all events that must stand; for, indeed, it is one of die noblest symbols of the Republic — a sign and an instrument of great people having great power. - - from end sheet of Minutes of Board of Education (1854 through 1858)

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 Vh e reas tbe interests of the inhabitants ofDist.Wo. 1 Town of Waterford demand greater acjlrfjes for the education, ofL the youth vsfHin. its Units4: therefore ? in view oj the powers delegated. to the floajd of Education as a corporate bo £y in. its action for education purposes; such powers being defined in $ec. ft. G 8. and 16 IT of the «Act providing for the establishment of linson Free Schools relating to the creation of aw •Academical Department- — Resolved; That this Soar! ojEducation. of Bist. JV£o- 1. Town of Waterford do establish an Academical Department to the Lins on Tree School under their charge in said Dsst. governed in. afj respects as prescribed, in. Said act; that the establishment of such department date from the irst of April 1858, and that in the engagement of. teachers and provisions for tte teachers department their fitness and ability to teach cind manage such academical department as a eij as those designed for the 'Union School department, should he Kept in view as the essential element productive of- success iti antf educntsonai arrange- ment..........,5 The above u as resolved,then recorded m the See- retards S'Omutes of the SoanL of Education of School District No i of, the Town of Water-ford, at the 'Regular Tleeting in the. Library Room on Tlonda j Evening, January 18, 1B5S.