The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-07-20
Practical Education.

Practical Education.
A very pcrceptiblc change is taking
place in the views of those interested
in educational matters. Instructors
both in Europe and America are be.
ginning 20 seriously ask themselves,
is it best to continue to drill the
young in the dead languages SC
many years? Can they not attain
just as much mental training, and far
more knowledge that will valuable
be to them in the everyday affairs
Of life, by dcvoting to other branches
of study portion of the time which
is now given to Greek and Latin !
The public, generally are beginning,
to PROFOUND the same inquiries.
Mill and Huxley have recently spo-
| ken Oh the subject, and Robert Lowe,
Chancellor sf the English Exchequcr,
now rcitoratcs the sentiments to
which they have given expression.
After stating, i'll an address before
the London Institute of Civil En-
gincers, that his own "cducation was
devoted mostly to learning some
thing of the literature and the Ian
guagc of u people who have long
since passed away-a people who
knew very mug ol nature, very .lltlc
very little indeed of anything except
the squabblcs and quarrcls in which
.ncy c''3!ascu M'V1' ono aholher, .hc
oIla,'ccIi3r au''SG ,, " hc, l. li,ihk
oi ''lo ce1eoro!cu oaI'lc OF MaraaIhan,
al' our GnVnu9i'''l' n.,'' 'oouC 'lic i'- VINO
pc'iS'lcu ol. '.io' III, occasion Oh inc sac
Vi ,Ne 'Io'orlouS' ana compare IL
W''I' Vn2 T'c"' "r"''la "hlch mas
pcc'' c''."itea :,,.' ~ ','other part OF ~
lopc "l'',''I @ 'nc ,aS' seven or ciShl
lllohI'lS' l. call'lot % help iecllhs now
Sillail were tilc matters 10 Whicn our
carry 1''ti,,!oh t,'! "a9 1lrcc'co' Nhhi!'
so?u col!'rry accident under thc
ausP'ccs ol ~ 'nosc ! m ptolesS,ollal schlle,
iilcll men "no''' ! sct alo'llu llic' Woul't
% anrGm one ,i,,o oa ' ailosc great events OF
a"oic''s ,enS 'il'.uo u!,1; oo'ilp'e.ciy INTO ,ne
sL shaoI. I,.!oe', oeu'ic9 VI 'liis ciiaIaclcI'
1mo G',,VU1'o n"I nviiui'uuo tnouga
i, po"uIiio' u I'',' ;,oI "a.,"otI,c' a,c narrow,
% ,,s,' ANY, ano'l.o" tno '.,.o u iiC llal, 70
,"ha 1"Mo pa - ;ot; ,,iU I"' "'a',i' VI liic.
ahn,,I ~ ~ 10 70 9 ;n'n"rt "v'1 , W toHIi'Gls
Sy" ron,rod % " in pr fI'tro "'p dnpn Will hio oI
,'Io'aVu ho ~ ',"iI for ,Io "ays' Wnlcn
oa o. OI o,ortn"o g., o,nI o9H'cHicncc
aI,l ho,1a ''I,,"o ho ,oaLt Ur l'a.hi,,u outn
onouiu oao''it ,Duon"oG a. '"usmy oDnoernlns tLe
oT1vIt OF hic% cIvs %c wo 10 Srpo LnOo u.s.
M' "nd nroTuctious ha~c mosG IonntcG ns,o
a "" iV'ou,.Vin, ot W. % ,,avo % ucHo.c.
they II G should y Gi be % nst"c}cd HSS Do"s how t.
selZc thc great forces IN nature, and
so to "lmprlson, and regulate them,
that they shall serve man, not
only like the most obcdient and
ltfaithful servants, but with u power,
(which no fablcd giant could possess. T"
l. Mere are vcrv few graduates V1fVi of coi-
Yes and universities in eitbor Tho
- G. World ~ Now Who viii no, | ~
u AotOu U nu ,oss M Um, ovtot "no T w., ,'V., w w
: yiE , VI , iosa oA.onl, ctuoieG these
theAW VIM nav U lo' co'liG 10 ieel, rom
j rodiWii experiences, lhat thcre Is q
" curric, dc1cct IN That educational
w tho m which prescrlDcs ancient,
y " n"ho ,'Io Nlusion OF modern classics,
k ~Who \ not kccnly regret that
thcy uluNpt devote some of their
i. carry yealNf study to acquiring the
/. German an French and other live
,, languages, Nch could now be made
y of great Avicn in thc social
IS and businessGn;r nf w., r,In
|, College of th&,,n.o ~ ,,,nt t'I. i.oo, ny ,ho
e living prcscntN."io i,'"n; hoop 'no
the dead past.-Yrc III VIcW lh''
II -RF'" """ nome.
It
vi tno man,iiacNe of "switcbes
ana chiShohs," Moving is stated
!, ny the Boston Conlhcinl Bulletin:
II me iirSt sWitCles Wamade i'm Cen
Il trai falls, IL. H., pya Nkman in one
y 0I tle llaA mills. for Nng time all
tnat were used-the nun Ar of which
l. at 1irst was quite smaiA Were made
d tlerc. AiteI"aru Iirm IN lhyOyidence
: commenced the hlailiaofe The
i price then was rom - 10 9Sealixing
large pToIi1 10 the malActurer'
o owltches theh rerailea at siN to s.,
n are now sou ~ - 10 81 cents Aeverai
n partleS started III Boston empAfrom
ten 10 lorly men each. oomee eea of
the amount mahulactureu be
! louha rom lne experience Oh tharg-
Il est OF BOSTON mahliact.lrers, emAy-
q ing iorty men hachling anu IXlnSe
Jute, ana nl'y 10 siAty girls III