Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1866-11-08
Education, Intellectual and Industrial.


in reference to the schooling Of thu
INDECENT young in our midst, BY
those whose duty as we'll as interes
it is to see that the rising generation
of all classes receive wholesome ant
proper instruction. Appeal afteI
appeal is made by the State Super
intendent of Public Education anc
others, personally and through the
press, looking to an enlistment of in
terest in, and sympathy for, the
neglected youth of our communities
but with no apparent effect. The
low state of the public funds and
the cramped financial condition OIL
our inhabitants generally have Of
course had their weight in bringing
about this apathy, but true wisdom
and justice fail to find sufficient ex-
cuse therein, to warrant so total a
neglect of subject SO vitality inn
portant as that of Public Edytation.
Something might have been accom-
plished in that direction had the
proper spirit and disposition been
shown, for "where there's a will
there's a way" and the behests Of
duty teach US to leave nothing un-
done that can and should be done.
A few individuals, by giving an
impetus to a meritorious movement,
can sometimes accomplish wonderful
results. Can there not be gathered
together in our city certain number
of philanthropic gentlemen to arrange
some feasible plan whereby one pub
lie school in each of the wards may be
started and supportsd2 We think
that there can be. The project once
begun, would inevitably lead to that
cooperation on the part of the com
munity which could not fail Of sue.
cess eventually. The initiatory step
cannot be taken too soon, and we
trust it will be.
While on this subject Of mental
education, we are led to consider also
the Importance which attaches to the
proper industrial education of the
young. Apropos to this, we have at
hand a most timely and excellent
dissertation, which we take occasion
to annex to our present article. AL
though written for the latitude of
another State, it applies with com
mendable force and propriety to our
own and every other State in the
South, and we would urge its careful
perusal not only upon the young
men, but upon all who are charged
with their guidance and training.
We are gratified, says the New
Orleans Commercial Bulletin, in its
Introductory remarks upon the dis
sertation alluded to, to see the
change of social employment recon-
mended by the leading men and
presses in Virginia. Ex-Governor
Wise has just made an Grafton in
which he impresses the necessity of
manly industry as the means Of re-
gaining the prosperity of the South, |
and the Richmond Wing has an
article upon the subject from which
we make the following extract:
care we under the new order of
things, as we were under the old, to
be overstocked in Virginia with
professional men? There is some
ground to apprehend that we shall.
We have seen it stated that an un-
lue proportion of the young men in
some Of our leading colleges are
aking the law and medical tickets.
We do not set ourselves up as ad-
users and directors, and would not
interfere with the rights
n with the private affairs Of our fell
ow-citizens, but we feel it to be our
luty as journalists and patriots to
ombat any practice, any principle,
I any idea that may prove prejudi-
ial to the interests of the Common
wealth. We have now more lawyers,
Ioctors, and other non-producers than
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