Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-04-29

Sinoe writing the above, have met with
some additional remarks of Mr.. Scott Russel,
which appear to me SO peculiarly opposite to
the subject in hand, that cnnnot refrain from
transcribipg them. He "projeots system of
technical education for England, but not as a
theory or experiment, for the result he aims
at has been already realized extensively and
perfectly in continental countries. In Prus.
sia, in Switzerland and even in the lesser
States, Baden and Hanover, systematic tech
nical instruction of all grades prepares for
every kind Of occupation and every branch of
industry. He selects Wurtemburg as mod
el little country, with population onc.twen-
tieth that of Great Britain. The scheme there
reduced to successful practice is symmetrical
and complete. The Polytechnic University
of Stuttgart educates the highest classes Of
professional men, civil engineers, architects
and the mercantile and commercial Glasses.
Chemistry, in its application to the arts and
manufactures, is fully taught, and there is a
course of general, superior, scientific and lit
erary education for professors, lecturers and
men of leisure. The building is one of the
finest in Stuttgart, and contains no less than
fifty.one professors and teachers. Besides the
usual lecture.rooms aud studios, there are q
chemical laboratory, physical laboratory,
meteorological meuseums, laboratories for con-
struotive experiments, plaster modelling
rooms, rooms for drawing, botanical garden
and aud an astronomical observatory.
"Below this in rank is the school Of trades,
intended for building crafts and tradesmen of
a grade Immediately under the professional
men and skillful masters Of the technical uni.
vcrsity. The men whom it was especially de.
signed to help in their vocation were stone
masons, bricklayers and carpenters, to be
trained for future master builders, construo.
tors Of public works, subterranean works, con-
structors Of reservoirs, mill works and
river works, and also land surveyors. 1t is
besides adapted to meet the wants of plaster
ers, tilers, roofers, joiners, glaziers, turner's,
decorators, ornament sculptors, modellers,
engravers, smiths, gold and silver workers,
gardeners and agrioulturists
"Schools for rural occupations, farming
and gardening schools are numerous through.
out the country. That at Hohenheim, with
twentyone masters, has under it three prac.
tical farming schools, in three different dis
tricts, each having Under Its care three hum
dred square miles sof territory. There arc
also winter evening schools in the villages,
and the practical result is that, last year, in
five hundred and twenty. three places, twelve
thousand and forty persons enjoyed the priv
ilege of agricultural instruction.
"Supplementary to the agricultural educa.
tion of the farmers is an institution for the
study of anatomy, physiology, training, and
diseases of animals--the Veterinary College
of Stuttgart. Attached to it is group of hos.
pitals, in which, last year, seven hundred and
seventy.five horses, eight hundred snd t=en-
ty:six cattle, and two hundred and thirteen
dogs were treated, and at the connected
smithy four thousand animals were shod,
"In order fairly to appreciate this oompro-
hensiye and admirable system of practical
education let it not be forgotten that we
should have to add half q million people to
the little nation of Wurtemburg, to give it
half the population of the State Of New
York. .ig
"Passing to other continental countries,
Scott Russell finds a similar state of things,
and points out the vivid contrast which they
present to tho neglected and shameful
condition of educational matters in England.
The comparison in this respect between the
rich and tho powerful kingdom Of Great Brit,
ain and the republic Of Switzerland, discloses
result which is almost startling Tho con-
trast between England and Switzerland is
this that England spends more than FIVE
times as much on pauperism and crime as she
does on education; and that Switzerland
spends seven times ais much on education as
On pauperism and crime" s'.s.'
lie says also {: .The mercantile or money.
ed value Of a welltrained, skillful English.
man, as compared 10 d strong, able.bodied man
who understands no craft, bandiwork or art,
isthis: one can earn three times tho value
of the other in other words, the skilled arti.
san is worth three times the valde Of the un-
skilled man. 3ff ~ z. },&
mAt The present time there are about a
million Of skilled men, (in England,) but
there are million of poorly skilled, aud two
millions Of utterly unskilled men. Supposipg
that BY education We can rbiseI the million Of
low er skilled into highly skilled mon, and re-.
place them by one million Of unskiled men,,
raised by some little education to their'rank,
We have, by that single act, earned for the
country two hsndred and taf.y millions 9
yea" y, !, vi, II q" ' go
sWheh ) nation 80 iar or sope,lof % Eng.
land, considers further progress so very essen.
tipl TO, her prosperity, surely II behooves us
to gird UP our loins for tho race that We may
not be-, with all our natural resot1rseB, dis.
tanced In the struggle foY national lifes
In bringing these, remarks, already long,.
to close, We should feel that our mission On
earth had ,nbt boon Ii vain, IL anything WI
have said. should awaken tho minds of soui
people to the urgent necessity of insuguratlnr
q system which (is th6 only NopSS fDf CaroiinA,
sssAred as We are, that, like shs tayss sof The,
san, h viii give lifS, sigor and trSspsrity 4o
Huboin thousand and mako on Stase' 'as aho'
should bes al. blessin0 x0 her tfeob ias and u