New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-28
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.

The g eat idea of Higher or ThOY$i3
Education for the sons and daughtjnf
Farmers, Mechanics and Laborers, is ever
where forcing itself on the public ats'
ton. Our Race needs instruction and T.
cipline to qualify them for Worbi9s
well as for Thinking or Talking-+AG
need something more than the smaltw9
of knowledge which a hireling picks Ts
hap hazard in the course of his dzig
tolls. A farmer needs to undersxi
and readily distinguish the qualities ~
properties of the various Soils he mge
called TO work-needs to be able to deter
mine for himself, by some simple scissuk
prOcess,w whether certain field needs line
OF Potash, OF Salt, or something else, ~
economically to render it bOuniiiully pre-
ductive. For want of this knowledge, rai'
lions of dollars are annually wasted isi-
plying one fertilizer where another b
needed, and where the one applied can Id
little or no good. And so in every depai-
ment Of Rural Industry.
The efforts now making in our State fx
the establishment of a PEOPLES CoLLEsg
are paralleled by efforts in other States
We have before us the Proceedings in pam
phlet form Of q Convention of Faraen
and others held at Evanyille, Putnam CO..
ILL.,, to awaken the people of Illinois -
consciousness of their need of an lndusuA
College. Prof. J. B. Turner Of Jacksss-
vile, in behalf of that Convention, has pd
forth a "Plan of the Industrial Universe
Of Illinois," which, while il differs in Inag
suggestions from our own views, YET sss
forth the pressing and common need
forcibly, that we copy the larger portlo'S
it-as follows: ~
All civilized society 10, necessarily, divided 'n,o
d's,rot. c. operative, not snrsg orsuc. c.I -
class vho.s uroper business 10 10 TO teaeh % -
urirciples of Religion Law, Medicine, science 81 n
Literainue an d a much larger Glass y DO are essr -
soue form of labor in Agriculture, Cotnme.s ss-,<,D
Id
Ire former the Professonsl and the isfsf 'ne go
clsss: not Implying that each may no. pc 80, - -,
t,iors; the Ose 10 their intellectual inc o, -
IL eus,ral pursui.s Probably In no es'e -
ever peed more than five mee or y 80 n1- -
The profes,ionsl class leaving nins'J ese IN esJ
cr,d m the industrial; and, 40 ions a. ~ m'n, IS
ordinary teachers and puShe n'ru o. 49, 49,
irsu.,risl cIs,, 40 there are a. present. AMI p2
Iii n. f,r oepsr.iiops 70 come, we 90 Dat 'eAy
80. ", nrs,s,s mai for every hundred, ies'~
ninety nine In ibe INDUSTRIAL class -
TTs v.s, cisercpee, In tho practical means
.o,roprisfe liberal Education, suited 10 tnen -
~ tbsir destiny, which these TWO cis'ses er}y.
I Ger have epi yed the world over, must haze -
The sip p,ion &c every ,hinAng man. True 'sa -
General abstract science exisa In rne voi'a -
sls,sss ALIKE, but the mesps Of rnging nn
ruth into ereciual contact with tie daily -
pursrhs of ops class dces exist. vble 10
case IL does not exist, and never can sn'A"
created. ,,,errb4
The one class have schsols seminsries, 49,
sprsrstus. professor and m'Iituoisess spys. r.
ecuca,ips and trsiripg them fer mouths ana yycsd
,bs uecujiar pro fessiop sh,ch u % De the usssM
,he,r Hfr and they have yresdy ere sted es,a -
| n. own use, vast and vsdumiDous literature ''"'
| Vel nigh snk whole usvy Of shpa $500
| But uhsge gs bs uuivas,asA sas W.