Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-11-17
A Noble Traitor.
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Noble Traitor.
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We continue, this week, to make extracts
from and notes upon the address of the Rev
DIR. Anderson, President Of the Kansas Agri- |
cultural College. In the extracts given last
week, DIR. Anderson showed how the present
course Of study, and the plan of the text
books, in our common and high schools, leads
in the direction Of professional instead of in
dustrial education, and that great portion
of the time and money expended by and for
pupils designing to follow industrial pursuits,
was wasted and lost. lie goes on to say
Either this course Of study is framed for the
direct benefit OF the professional classes or 1t is
not II 1t is, then the knowledge taught is not as
useful to the farmer as TO the lawyer because the
work Of the former Is different from that OF tho
latter as blowing is from pleading But II the
course is not exclusively for the professionals,
then it is filled from first to last with curious fos-
sill information that the industrialist never uses,
while it omts, or admits but in fragments, pre-
cisely the knowledge which would be profitable to
him. In either ease, it ought 10 be reconstructed
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canes aids IA man I'm gro,,ip, corno or that n
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arises VIVA, Il ,ho 1,os, c,,,u,oy
"a man might take a quarter section Of raw
prairie, break it, harrow it, and finally seed /,
down to marigodsi and that would be culture.
'"' ''su' "O1'u o' Oe''"''" ~, e''ns u pv"u'y
lindIo shsm ',oond Ia .,nnS 49, s "0nn nvs
misty mountain tons. pointipp with rosy finger.
to those one hundred and sixty acres Of glowing,
golden marisolds2 But the man owning the ad
Joining quarter breaks mp the prairie sod and puts
.ne 'n'ie 'rSV' IN onions ana 'n"' wou'o DC cut
Ma :, !. 49,, aS'ai,,as ",' ' -, "
the opera house i a blaze Of LIGHT. when the
wealth of empires rlitters in diamonds upon necEs
oil snow when the echoes oil delicious music fill
the high hall, and the vast dropcurtan, rs 1t FALLS
rembles responsive to the applause that swells
from parquet boxes and galleries, no admirer
ever throws at the feet OF the child OF genius the
embodiment OF beauty and melody, adewy bouquet
oil iresh-cuiled onions And yet, to return to the
kind Of culture on the prairie public sentiment
leaning over the rail fence and commenting upon
the TWO quarter sections, goes with the raiser OF
onions and the man OF onions goes down to his
mousse lusthed rather than the other. confess
mat a'n partisan as between marigold' and
ohiohs' am an ultra onion man, myself
DIR. Anderson then goes on TO assert that
A course of nublic instruction can n. con.
struct.d ,ba, voui5 ,an1 o. ;,,,,., u,.,
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A'0"io"se anu ue'eioP 'ha' SKIN "hicn
would DE directly valuable to the industrial
classes IN their after life. lie points out, at
some length, what this course ought TO be.
and wa regrei the lacL of snooa ,ybiob ,ro-
von,s o,,r ,,;,;,o, III. -, ...'.;,,. 49,,
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wv" u''S p"'h'' nut 10 mus
tra'e MS lues NIUE, we make an extract
from what he says upon the teaching Of
language:
1.-THE several classes tof eitlzens) do not need
vocabularies Of equal fullness Does the carpenter
use the same terms as the lawyer lie has a
ao'soaH! ~, " Jus own, lu''e az '''.o' lo' nus use
,,ro,a.s,oaaI man ,,rasan, s'ho aa,. nnJo,.,.aa
conversation between two locomotive engineers
ON the merits Of their engines And as 10 doctors.
notwithstanding their oRcular gravity, nobody
pretends to believe that they even understand
each other. So that there is professional aud
an industrial language Now is the every day Ian
guage used by the industrial classes Latin, Greek
or Hebrew Not to any alarming extent What
is the sense, then in forcing these professional
dialects on them in the schools2 win printers
give classical names to spaces shooting sticks, or
the profane box? win carpenters recast their
language upon classical basisg More industrial
lists use under than over two thousand words, and
yet with these they express their ideas clearly.
what is the necessity, then, for pile-drivlng the
ninety-seyen with the classical technology OF the
three And II there be any is the peoples school
TO furnish the steam for your pile-driyerP If so,
Sar vnn,l.s ' ), =" " 'ps's anu using osery
and thi,ty.fonr thou,and on, =, Tho ono hnnS,,S
aud thirty.fiye thousandg'
DIR. Anderson advocates tborougb drill in
the proper use of plain English. in practical
mathematics, in modern industrial science,