Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1851-04-10
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,.eielr, communities more prov

FoafaW away tne young ano entSfpFizing
citizen, and the capital SO necessary to pc
cuniary prosperity"
1t is easy TO see that the educated En-
gineer of Railroad ran command higher
wages than the uneducnted common Labor
er-that the educate captain Of a ship car
make more money than the unseincatrc
common sailor--tha' the educated officer ii
an army receives higher wages than the
uneducated private-that the man who has
received superior education and becomes
the cashier Of q bank OF Secretary Of the
United States Treasury, can acquire more
wealth than though he had acquired j''si
education enough to do the business Of -
small retail store. The apprentice boy who
has received good education before enter
Ing upon his apprenticeship, will be lkel..
to learn his trade in less time, make a nIor
skilltul workman, and more more enter
prizing and successful business man tlIat
though he had received less education. AZ
cordingly we find that the most imPortan
and useful Inventions were made by me"
who's minds had been previously disciplined!
BY the study ofliterature OF science. Watt.
the inventor Of the Steam Engine, was q
ecisntifc man and critically versed in sever
al languages. He was the mathematics
snstFument maker of one of the Engli.n
Acknowledgment his leisure time in ST.
dy, and attended the s;ienlidc lectures OF
the University. Lord Brouglam says, " 1t
Watt had goaeon making mathematical IN,
tsruments withous ever studying tie pri:,-
ciplas Of science upon which they nre GOA
structed, he nevsr would have achieved
any ons CT those splendid inventions which
gave such celebrity 10 his name such ior>
tune TO his family, (tia"ugh far from cqrai to
his prodigious DESERTS aud such NJ Increase
70 the power and happiness of mankind -
He would have gone on TO his grave work
ing at the rate of Cos. or 4Qs. week. with
out ever having raised his own ,mms, or
adorned his species, on improved the condi,
ton OF mankind in the marvellous manner
and to the boundiess extent which he was
enabled TO do by his scientific education and
phi!osophic strdies."
The mind Of Robert Fulton, bef,re he
made his grea, invention, had been thorough
~ disciplined by study. He studied paint
ing under Benjamin West. one of the most |
distinguished artists Of his day. He Sub
went TO Paris and re sided seven
successive years in the family of the Hou.
Joel Barlow the American Ambassader to
France: F." during this period ne made him
sell acquainted with the French, Italian, |
and German languages, and perfected him
self in ths higher branches Of mathematics,
natural philosophy, chemistry and perspec-
tvs.
Eli Whitney, the inventor Of The Cotton
Gin. which has been worth hundreds Of
millions TO thu Southern States, was grad
uate of Yale College.
Professor Morse the inventor of IL, Nae
netic Telegraph, that wonder of the world
and greatest invention of the present age,
was also graduate OF Yale College.
Tie most approved statistics that can be
obtained, will show (other things being
equal. that these towns. villages, cities md
States OF our country in which the stand
ard Of education has been the highest for
any great length of tune, ure the most
wealthy. 1t will probably be admitted by
all acquainted with the history of public
schools in this country. that Massachusetts
has always stood first in the cause Of popu-
lar education. Harvard College was found
ed in 1910 just twenty years after tie pill
grims nded on Plymouth Rock. In May
1647, twenty. seven years after their nnding
they established system of public schools.
for giving Instruction not only in the com
mon EHgIish branches. but also in the class
sics. In letter written by John Adams TO
the Hon. VIM. T, Barry of Kentucky in
1922, we find the following. "a law Of
this colony almost two hundred years ago
obliged every town to maintain school
master capable Of teaching tho Greek and
Roman languages rs well as reading, wri-
ting and arithmetic ia English, Those
school masters wore to be examined by the
clergymen add magistrates, and the cer.
gymen in those days were Nil learned men,
This law is ia force TO this hour. had
ynyeeif the honor 10 be school master un>
der this aw, from 1855 to 1853 inthe town
of Worcester.
We may adj tilat va believe that this law
with some notifications, is in force to TIL.
day. hlaasachuseIts, then, founded the
first College. established The first 81 stein OF
common schools. and tho first and only sys.
tenn OF classical schools 10 this country, aud
she has been taxed for more than two hnn
sired years for the support Of these schanl
For the last ten years she has pnid in pro
portion 10 her population more than twice
as much tol educalionsl purposes as anl
other State in the Union. Is Massnclu
sstts the poorer for having paid so much to
the cause oE-eGucati0n No, she ia richer
Her high slnndard Of education has con