The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1851-07-11
For the Kalida Venture

FRIEND MAc:-ln making t0uI
through four or five counties east Of this
during last week, ! was much interested
with the prospect Of the coming wheat
crop, particularly in the counties Of
Seneca and Crawford. think that
never saw wheat stand thicker on the
ground, while il is very even, and ap-
parenily well filled. l observed in some
pads an abundance Of leapcs said TO in.
dicate injury from the rust. Grass is
quito good, while corn is only average
There is few apples, but did not see
peach after I letf this county.
AT Tifin | had the pleasure Of lisining
to Mr.. L. Andrews, late Principal Of the
Mussillon Union School on the subject
Of Education, upon the union system.
His plan is to concentrate three or four
districts into one, build one house with
three rooms, divide the scholars into
three classes, and employ three teachers,
he maintains that the children would
have but little further to travel if the
State was correctly dislricted than they
now do, and that little would not injure
them, that money could be saved by
building one convenient house instead Of
four poor ones, and that with the same
labor ten times as much might be learned
by putting a large number into ono class
or by dividing the school into different
departments; and that if we would have
good schools we must no: change teachers
every three months. That as schools
are now conducted both teaching and
governing arc but continued series of
bungling experiments, and as soon as the
teacher has learned to manage his school
he is discharged 10 give place to another
who is compelled 10 pass through the
samc ordeal as his predecessor. Mr.. A.
thinks that teaching should be profes-
sion and we'll paid as the oiher profess
sions, and that the property Of the State
should educate The children OF the State
that the mind requires food as much
as the body, and we have as much right
to deprive the one Of aliment as the other
--that as matter ofeconomy thorough
system Of State Education should be
established. Itwould prove saving Of
money, by reducing paupcrism, crime
and misery, to say nothing ofits ennob.
ling influence upon society.
At the close ofhis lecture he stated a
fact that should bo known to all. That
Of The eight thousand boys now employed
as drivers on our canals, in this State,
FIVE thousand are orphans. Il appears to
me that there is no cause Of wonder that
our jails and pcnitentiaries are filed,
and that we are heavily taxed for the
administration Of criminal justice, when
five thousand poor and ignorant boys are
employed on our canals as drivers, sur
rounded by temptations thai would re-
quire better educated minds to resist,
who have Eo kind friend to take thom TO a
common school, or even Sabbath school;
while during the winter season many Of
Them are out Of employ scattered over
the State like SO many fire brands con-
iaminating the youths Of every neighbor-
hood.
3 Mr.. A. i understand is visiting different
parts of the State, he is jealous and
energetic laborer in behalf of the reform
school system, and will do much good
ia his benevolent efforts for the rising
generation.
Kalida, July !, 1851. Pc. B.
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