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shall be entitled to the aforesaid tuition, and to books and station-
ery.

8th. One student from each county, and from the city of Balti-
more shall be entitled to the privileges of each class.

9th. It shall be discretionary with the Orphans' Courts of the
counties and of the city of Baltimore, to assign the applicants
from the several counties and the city of Baltimore, to each of
the aforesaid classes as in their judgment may seem best.

10th. For the further annuity from the State of two thousand
dollars, St. John's College will furnish a general superintend ant
of Public Schools, who shall make to every Legislature, a full
report of his operations, and shall furnish to such counties as may
desire it, books and stationery, without any charge for commis-
sion.

For the comparatively small sum of ten thousand dollars, the
State would receive an amount of benefit, which it would not be
possible to compute in numbers. It would of course be very
unfair to estimate the advantages of the plan herein submitted,
by the number of teachers annually prepared in the Normal School
alone. We must take into the account the impulse given gen-
erally towards the vocation of teaching, by elevating it to the po-
sition among the scientific professions it so well deserves, and the
great aid which these graduates of the Normal School may give to-
wards the multiplication of teachers in the Primary Schools and
Academies, over which they may be placed. That which gives
movement and regulation to the whole, is always the most impor-
tant part of the machinery. And it is no objection to the fly
wheel, or to the balance wheel, that they are not multiplied in every
port. We must take also into the estimate the indirect, but by
no means small benefits, which would accrue to the State, from
an outlay of such an amount in behalf of her own school, at
the head of whose concerns her own chief magistrate presides,
with her highest Judges and Legislative Officers, as his honorable
colleagues.

There is a degree of proper pride or self-respect without which
the tone of a State can no more be healthful than that of an in-
dividual.

To be able to have self-respect, we must be conscious that we
deserve it, and nothing helps more to deepen this consciousness
than the actual respect which we know others entertain for us.
It must be confessed that on the subject of education we have
neither self-respect, nor the respect of others. We have no in-
stitution in the State in which we can feel a proper pride, and
of course if we do not value our own institutions, we can hardly
expect strangers to do so, if we send our own children out of
the State, we can scarcely expect them to send their's into it.
But why do we send our sons out of the State? Why do we send
them to Yale and Princeton and Harvard and the University of