Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-06-20

A. .
, the young, IS enlrust d to the cheapest
hand that can be hired TO do the work -
one who is barely to pass a nominal ex-
animation by a committee sometimes more
ignorant than himself, in the modicum Of
learning prescribed by law; and slender
as the privilege ofsuch instruction is. if It
be enjoyed by our children but for ten or
twelve weeks in the year,--as is the case
in too many towns in the commonwealth,
it is plain to see, that they are deprived of
the best part oftheir biHhright. - +..ss.
81 know that it is said these few
weeks, in the dep:h ofthe winter, are all
of his children's.time that the frugal hus-
bandman can spare. But can it be so Z
Can the labors of the field, or any other
labors, be SO holly pressed among US, that
ten or twelve weeks are all the time for
which the labor of the youth Of both sex
es can be dispensed with for five or six
hours day? -
g. Il speak with difidence on the sub
ject, but such apprehend cannot be the
case. cannot but think, that majority
Of the citizens of Massachusetts, of all
pursuits and callings, might, without the
least detriment to their interests, send their
children steadily to a good school, seven
months in the year, and more or less of
the time the other Eve.
7. Without de,riment, did saw Nav,
with incalculable advantage to their chill.
dren, to themselves. and to the State. Il
would be more rational to talk about. not
af1ording our children as much of their
time as is necessary for their education.
What shall man plant his field, and al
:, low his child's intellect 10 run to weeds
2 g. ut would be as wise to eat up all
, the wheat, and SOW the husks and the chat
for next years crop, as, on principle Of
2 thrift, to sow ignorance and its attendant
Q helplessness and prejudices in your child
: ren's minds, and expect TO reap an hon.
j, orable and happy manhood,
n 9. 1T would be better husbandry, to
e 60 in the summer, and clatter with hoe
It in the bare gravel, where nothing was
t. ever sown but the feathered seed. Of the
2, Canada thistle. which the west wind drops
# from its sweeping wings, and come back
# in autumn and expect to find field Of
g yellow grain nodding to the sickle, than
e to allow your son to grow up without use
t. full knowledge and expect 'hat he will
= sustain himself with responsibility in life,
d or, (if consideration may be had of self.
= interest) prompt and comfort your de.
4 cline
Of 10. mot spare our children's time
% Spare it, nigh ask you, from wha.2 Is
e anything more important Spare il for
at what? Can it be better. employed than
> in that cultivation of the mind, which will
l. vastly increase the value of every snbse-
: quent hour of life2 And to confine them,
y in the morning of their days, to round
st of labor for the meat that perisheth, is it
IS not when our children ask fo- bread to
n give them stone? when they ask for a
II fish to give them a serpent, which will
n sting our bosoms as we'll as theirs?
y II. "Our governments, as well as in.
J. dividuals, have, must needs say, a duty
+ to discharge to the cause of education.
Something has been done.-by some of
It the State governments, much has been
S done, for this cause; but too much, fear,
e remains undone
: In the main, in appropriatlng the public
e funds, we tread too much in the footsteps
of European precedents. could wish
: our Legislators might be animated with
: purer ambition"