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Caption: Book - History of the University (Powell)
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BiUs and Acts to Establish an Educational Institution 551 execution of the trust reposed in them by this act, and shall more effectually accomplish and carry out the objects and purposes of the institution. 16. This act and all grants and appropriations herein pro* vided for, shall cease and be void, unless this act with its several provisions, shall be accepted by the above named corporators, within sixty days from the time of the adjournment of this general assembly; and this act is hereby declared to be a public law, and to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. REPORT OP THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF THE SENATE TO WHOM WAS REFERRED THE BILL TO INCORPORATE THE ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY The special committee of the senate of the state of Illinois, to whom was referred the bill to incorporate the Illinois University, would respectfully report: In education, as in all other subjects, there are certain truths that are self-evident; or at least so nearly so that they are admitted as axioms by all men at all acquainted with the subject. One of these self-evident propositions is, that the teacher must exist before the scholar can be taught, and that therefore the teacher is not only the foundation, but the only motive power, the life and light of the whole system. Whoever, therefore, would begin at the foundation of any system of public instruction, must begin by providing the means for furnishing the requisite supply of competent teachers, and without these, it is equally self-evident that any system of common school instruction, however, wise in its laws and details, however ample in its expenditures prolonged in its sessions, or free and accessible to both rich and poor, will prove only an onerous and useless tax on the one, and a waste of time, if not a positive nuisance, to the other. This great fact has been admitted and acted upon, not only by all practical educators and conventions of teachers, but by
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