The Litchfield County post., 1828-10-02

lawyer. physiciaa, farmer, q neeAan-
&c, a merchant, ar any other gentleman or
lady competent and disguised TO teach, in-
struclion adapted to their age, pursuits and
wants.
Al the same place and with The same OPP
pOrtunilies, farmers can meet 10 bring to-
gether their own views and experience, land
compare them " it'll those related by authors
upon the subject of consideration, it having
been adopted at a previous meeting. By
the aid of apparatus and tests, the correct
ness of views or principals may perhaps be
ried by actual experiment.
Mechanics can also make use of the same
place, library, apparatus and specimens, to
illustrate subjects, and prove or test princi-
Piles, which they daily USE, and knowledge
of which would increase both their SatlStac-
ton and success in their useful occupations.
Societies of females, for literary or ben
evolent purposes might improve the same
opportunities,to give interest to their meet
ings. and greater efficiency and usefulness
to their exercises.
Besides exercises fitted to the pursuits or
the wants of particular classes of society,O-
Tiers of a more general or popular charac-
ter may be introduced, such as popular lee
ture on the sciences, or any other subject
ofuseful knowledge and common interest !;
and these either by citizen, or by some
employed from abroad for the purpose.
To strengthen and facilitate the opera
tons of the several branch Lyceums, all in
county are to be united by board of del
egates, who are to meet semi annually, to
adoptregulations, and forward measures for
the general & material benefit of the whole
A countyLyceumis intended to adopt meas
ures for the benefit of schools in their
dstrict---to collect facts respecting their
state and their wants, suggest improve
ments, and perhaps act as Board of exa-
miners of school teachers in the county land
of course to take the place Of town CONF
mittees for that object.
Each county Lyceum in to appoint one
or more representatives, to meet perhaps
during the session of their Legislature, to
organise and adopt measures to advance the
interests of education. A State Lyceum
may act as Board of Education and by
appointing committees for specific objects,
VIZ. one to examine and recommend school
books another to determine upon the es-
sental branches in system Unpopular ed
ucation; the proportionate time and atten-
ton proper to devote to each the order
in which they should be reduced, and
the most efficient methods of intoxicating
them.
Not only the various subjects of instruc-
ton, but tho different faculties of the mind,
viz. judgment, memory, temper and imag-
nation, might Justly come under the con-
sideration of this or another committee
The object Of such committee would be
to give both efficacy and symmetry to edu-
cation.
From several State Lyceums general
Union might be formed, TO be called the A
merican Lyceum, and to perform the du-
ties of an American Board of Education, in
the most extensive sense of the word.
Under the patronage of the American
Lyceum may be published Journal, or the
Journal OF Education small, familiar and
practical treatises on The sciences; scienti-
fc, biographical, or historical tracts, &c.
for the benefit Of the various town lyceums,
schools, workshops, steamboats, and private
families.
More than fifty societies on this plan are
already formed, and from the greater or less
success which has uniformly attended their
operations, and from the great increase Of
strength and efficiency which an extensive
and General Union of the plan could not
fail to give to individual efforts, it is most
earnestly hoped that every town in New
England at least, will take the subject into
early and serious consideration, to deter
mine whether they cannot during the app
preaching autumn and winter participate in
spirit, and engage in the exercises, that they
may enjoy the benefits Of an institution de-
signed for The diffusion of knowledge aAd
the benefit ofthe world.