Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-06-02
EDUCATIONAL.


Common things are quito a7 much neglected
and despisel ia the eiuclfCa q she rich ss Of
/ the poor. Il is wonderful how Little s. young
gentleman may know when he has taken his
university degree, especially II he has been in
dustri0us sui hss stuck bis stuiies lie may
really spend a long time 10 looking for somebody
more ignorant than himself II be talks with
the driver Of the stsre-cosch thu, lands him al
his fathers door, he hnis he knows nothing u
horses II be falls into converslii5l villa a gar
dener, he knows nothing Of p.sats or flowers. II
he walks in the iells, he docs not know ihe DIFF
ference between barley, re and wheat; between
lucern sud saiufoin between natural and arti-
fetal grass. II be goes into clrpen.er's yard
be does not know one wood from another. II he
comes across an attorney, he has no iiea Of the
difference between commune anI statute law ,and
Is wholly in the dark As 20 those securities Of
personal and political h5srty ou which We
pride ourselves Il he ts.ks With q county
magistrate, be fnls his ou.y lea Of the office
is, that the gentleman IS SOFT Of English
sheikh, As the usyor II the neigaho-inE
borough is a sort u cali. II be strolls
INTO a workshop c- place Oi manufacture,
it is always 70 find his level. aai that lsve isr
below the present company. Il he dimes out,
and as youth Of proved talents, ami perhaps
university h0uors, is expected 90 be literary, his
literature is confined 20 q few popular royes-
the novels o. the last century, OF even O. TIE ast
generation, history aad poetry. having been
almost stu3iousy omitted TO bis eilcsrioa. The
girl who has never s;i-rel fron home, and
whose education has been ec5nlmEei, not
20 say neglected. il order 10 send her
own brother to college. knows vastly more Of
those things than be does. The same exposure
avSits MIN everywhere be goes, AMI whenever
he has the gu4sc-tv u omen hIe mouth Az eea
be Is lanl-lnooef IN the country a cockney, IN
town a greenhorn, IL science an ignorsmus, Ia
business s.mpieton 10 pleasure milSs'p-
eye1ySaere oJj OF ms e-e1 emf, eyery where AZ
sea, IN the clouds, a-rlit- or by Whatever word
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oAu hAt'ly '7'A o' Ie''soI WITHOUT 'e''45'n 'ns
want u ''1i'i'i s9471 ''-'' ''''s'
Il il often ssit, especially by fourth-o'-Juiy
orators ami newspaper editors. t1lt Ke have IN
AmcIic4 system If universal silcaiiou but
everybody who knows anything Of the matter,
knows that We have nothing Of The kial- There
are hundreds and thousands e children who
should oe 10 school. nut lre not We grow
criminals ty iufilibis methods, anl -r17ely dis
cusf different theories for reforming them. We
have in truth. scarcely touched tie subject Of
the prevention of crime The mass Of the
people care nothing shout it.-Li5er1l Chris
.ian
Hon Warren J.B1.1n S9us-,rten;ent If
Public Schools. in N.iue. In his last annual re.
mort recomr,cr Is some F.rn cf ie,;,l4tiou 70
secure the attepdenee Of all you between the
sres Of eight and fourteen wears. At -sule school.
ether pnblie or private Ar ,ssst three months of
each ve.r The Board of Fius,tlsn for Port
land ask for similar legislation hy The citv gov-
ernment