Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-01-24

same defect exists. though. as with the
clergy. our teachers would receive much
benefit from more practical system of
education than they now get 1t is be-
cause the profession Of teaching is 50
impractical that it has been found so
difficult to make agricultural colleges a
success. They have been oficered from
q class Of men utterly unified. by train
ing and preeonceived opinions, for the
work they are set to do, when they are
put in charge Of school Of agriculture.
or Of any practical art As they can't
do it. they naturally despise it, and think
it unworthy an educated man. according
to their idea Of education and all their
influence will invariably be used in di-
verting the course Of study from the
practical to the rigidly scientific and
literary. This is their forte-they nat
urally and excusably draw back from
that which they neither understand nor
value.
The fact Is, brother farmers. our col
leges and schools were never designed
for the likes Of Us. All the colleges
and schools in the world, from the begin
ming nearly up to the present time, were
organized and designed for making
priests, ministers, lawyers. and teachers
of divinity and law. No thought of ed
ueating the people ever entered the minds
Of the men who founded the schools and
= colleges of the old world. Of which our
schools and colleges are the lineal de-
: scendents- They were designed for ''Our
betters." as the working men Of Europe
, have always been taught to call the aris-
7 tocracies of wealth and collegiate learn
e ing. In those times the profession of
: medicine was divided-the scientific part
in the hands of the college bred 'physi-
r clan" or doctor Of medicine. who dis
e dained to put his hand upon a patient,
b and was only called in extreme cases to
: consult with the working men-the So
: called apothecaries, and the surgeons
q who were also the BARRIERS Of the time.
II The barber's-pole Of to-day is simply the
badge of the barber-surgeon Of old-the
% bleeding-staff, with which the patient
d supported his arm for bleeding. wound
5. about with the ribbons with which the
lie arm was afterwards bandaged. In thost
= old schools and colleges no arts were
c. ever taught. Abstract science. mathe
d mates, logic and metaphysics, with tn
IN languages and literature Of two deaC
Is and extinct nations, the Greeks and tn
IS. Romans, were all they taught. The peo
n pie were not taught at all, and were onl
= considered worthy to be the serfs and tn
;h drudges of their betters-" Our anees
al tors in America are not to be blame
as that they only improved little on th
ed example of their forefathers in organi1
de ing the district school, in which th
~ children Of the people might be taugh
N to read. write and cipher little The
on founded academies too, but these wei
his only as feeders for the colleges, and a
OF the textbooks and the whole system
ne education, looked only to making pr
las fessional men-lawyers, diyines an
ap- teachers.
ed The one profession that was at on
IN scientific and practical, that Of mediein
ldy had to organize Its own schools, al
OF take its own teachers from Its own rank
IN In these schools were science and a
md first combined; and always, from t
~ beginning. this was thought, in the Q
8 world, to be degradation and prac
der TONERS Of medicine to this day. no N;
ess- ter how learned. are not considered to
hat the social equals of the members Of
tell other professions. Clergymen and Ia
or yers, almost without number, lave b
znts raised to the ranks Of the nobility
AXIS England, as . reward Of eminence
'tes' their professions, but this honor rema
yet to be for the first time conferred
~ on physician, because physicians
D grade science and scholarship by apI
''1o ing it to practical use, and actually
ing something-though it be only
d be = -. -.
ally doing something with their han
no For this they are declared unfit to st
upon an equality in life with clergyu
~ lawyers and professors
A1u1' In modified and softeued form it Is
but still potent for evil to fea
extent-the spirit Of those old times
ln''' come down to Us Of to-day, and dor
'e'oH' ates all our higher institutions Of lie
- v ing, and dictates the methods Of te
~1N ing in our common schools It per
=" &c emily divorces learning from art,
- teaches everything abstraetly, Wit
:, ' showing its relation to use The n
I, = Is general ignorance among the pV
- Of this system, from the highest 70
lowest, Of the practical bearing Of :
they learn And the consequence Is
=. e they learn with difficulty. and forge
engi- nus = '@'' : Earn ~NA' :, .
d the -Deu WIN " H @.o
great an expense Of time and M
We all know. from daily experience