New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-21
PRACTICAL EDUCATION.

A meeting of the Peoples College Association was
held yesterday in Brooklyn, and another and fuller last
evening wherein the idea of Education based aud
supported by Labor very fully considered and steps
taken toward its practical realization The Peoples
College having been chartered by our Legislature at
it's late Session its Trustees and other friends will hold
meeting at Owego, TiOga Co, on Wednesday, May
95th when measures will doubtless be matured and
adopted looking to an immediate and effective appeal
to the whole People of State for he means of estab
fishing the College Our experience has Dot tended to
make us sangune with regard the of appeals
to public beraly in favor of Reforms not yet POPULAR
vet we do hope to see the Peoples College endowed and
established within two or three years at furthest
For not only is this College needed but the need of
it begins TO be very generally felt With at least
dozen Collegiate institutions and several score of less
pretentiOus Seminaries in our State, We know not
where within her borders youth could apply for the
instruction needed qualify hun for thoroughly SCI
entifc skful, successful Farmer Artisan A little
Chemistry and less Geology comprehend nearly all that
is taught in our Sennares tending directly to fit the
pupil for usefulness and eminent efficiency any field
of Productive Labor. European Nations far less ex-
tensive powerful and ghtened than ours have their
Schools of Mines, their Polytechnic Institutes, &c,
but we have nothing of the nearly nothing
any thing can be- Agricultural Schools in
full progress in Great Britain, in ireland, aud Other
parts of Europe spend more money in Agricultural
displays than all the world beside, and devote less
the incubation and diffusion of the Natural Sciences
which lie at the base of all Improvement in cultivation.
We have some able usefuy employed in evolving
and disseminating the truths OF Agricultural Chemis-
no arn1 trifh
What contributions have We made co Agricultural
Literature fit stand beside Stephenss Book Of the
Farm or the writings of Prof Johnston! And is it
not high time that We should begin repay por-
ton of the heavy debt to Europe for hints TO-
ward Agricultural Improvement
Nopart ofthe world exceeds Union in the extent
in the variety the richness of her Mineral Wealth OF
IRON Coal Lead Copper, Zinc, Manganese &C. We have
proiuson on this side of the Rocky Mountains to
which California, Utah and Oregon adding an abun
dance of Cold Silver and Mercury In no country was
there ever so rapid and vast development of Mineral
industry as is now witnessed in yet rush into
the new enterprises they successfully presented
with an amazing dsprOpOrton of zeal to knowledge and
of course too often fail dsatrousy where Science only
was needed to insure success And, while own youth
are kept ignorance this country has for some years
been the parduse vi all the foreign qudcKs ana DOuster
swvels whose preensions here in inverse ratio to
their achievements in their native lands More money
has within FIVE years been wasted among in unsklu
mining alone than would have suiced to establish here
an effective School of Mines and graduate therefrom
five hundred well instructed pupils.
We must and will have a Practical College Let
those who choose persist in digging Hebrew roots and
constituting Greek tragedies need and must have
College wherein our Youth may be trained into and nos
of Productive Inustry and where the Farmer the
Artisan the Engineer, may send his well ground
ed confidence that The education there impaired will
qualify him for better farmer artisan engineer than
heoberwse could be. Such We hope grow out of
the effort for Peoples College, and hope that when
the requisite appeal TO the beray Of citizens is
made, it will be generously responded 10.