The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-02
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INDUSTRIAL EDuOATI0N.


forgotten nor ignored by it's educators
and statesmen il they would prove
themselves to be wise master-builders.
Are unity, loyalty, and justice uniyer-
sally to prevail in the good time COM
ing? Then they must be taught,
illustrated, and enforced in all the
schools Of the seed-timc present. Does
the nation aspire to material greatness :?
Would it seek the fullest development
of it's gigantic resources? Would
it see it's forests felled and replanted,
it's mineral treasures utilized, it's man
ufactures flourish, it's sails Whiten
every sea, its people blessed with the
fruits Of plenty, and gladdened with
the wine and oil Of cOntentment and
Happiness? Then the practice OF in
dustry, frugality, and thrift must bel
made the habit of it's rising generations
until these virtues become universal.
The labor Of the hand and the sweat
of the brow must be inculcated as no
less honorable than the toll OF the
brain. That education which breeds q
contempt for manual labor is q nation
al curse. That school OF system Of
schools which tends to drG2o the mass
es of the people ont Of their legitimate
spheres, and excite in them feeling of
discomfort with industrial pursuits, is
radically wrong, and calls for radical
remedy
There is a positive tendency i'll men
tai labor to disincline the individual
from physical labor There is a posi-
tive tendency in popular education, as
vt present conducted, to indisp0se the
masses Of The people to tie pursuit Of
industrial ayocatton8. There is q con-
stantly growing tendency among the
youth Of our rural districts to rush TO
the cities in search of sedentary en-
pigments. The 50 called learned pro-
LESSONS are greatly oyerstocked.
Many good farmers and mechanics are
spoiled to make briefiesS lawyers and
Indifferent doctors. Many a sacred
desk is occupied by those who have
had no higher call than q chronic dis
position to prove the proposition that
man is lazy animal. Government
offices have been multiplied far beyond
the public necessities to make places
for rampant and seedy seekers after
the spOils of political power, who des-
piSe labor. Thousands Of abl0-b0died
men lounge idly at street corners, who
should be telling the forests, turning
the virgin soil, and reaping the golden
grain Of our vast unOCcupiGd acres, Or
guiding the wheels of our manifold
mechanical and manufacturing indus
tries, or spreading The sails Of our
commercial marine TO the breezes Of
every cline. The country fairly trem-
bles under the tread Of tramps seeking
to live by their wits, rather than cam
the sweet bread Of honest and hon0r2-
BILE toll.
But these deplorable results cannot be
credited exclusively to the tendency Of
brain labor to disincline from muscular
labor. There is another cause lying
down deep i'll the soil Of early educa-
ton, that is even more prolific in evil
consequences than the indisp0sition
referred to. The American child, both
at home and at school, is perpetually
stimulated by false motives. He is
made TO believe that he may yet be-
come president, governor, OF member
Of congress, rs though public position
was tile passport to honor and respect
ability, alone He is virtually taught,
both by precept and example, that he
may acquire a great fortune, as though
wealth were the chief end Of human
existence. He is frequently tainted
with the query whether he means to
be newer Of wood, and drawer. Of
water, OF whether he wishes to remain
a farmer OF mechanic for life, as
though the labor of the hand and the
sweat of the brow were the sum of
human evil, and the sign and seal of
hHman degradation. Among the
women the passion for dress and dis
play, and the slavery of fashion, are
cultivated as fine arts. The average
American girl is irreparably spoiled
ere yet she scarcely reaches her teens,
by false and superficial ideas as to
the true aims of life, by an indisposi-
tiCn for health-giying labor, and by
visionary notions. Of her relations to
the other sex and to society. The
average American servant girl has
OutgrOWn her business, and now as
Sumes to dictate terms to the helpless
mistress OF the household she cones
cend5 toserye. The average American
boy knows more than his father, is
master of his mother, disrespectful to
his superiOrs, ansolent to everybody.
Rampant roWdyism blossoms on every
street corner. Juvenile obedience has
become a rare virtue. Juvenile in
dustry is questionable; juvenile theft
an everyday pastime; and juvenile rob
berries and murders are commonplaces
so frequent as to have ceased to he
more than nine-dayS wonder.
We boldly affirm that these are
among the outgroWths Of a defective
and partial education. They are the
fruit of bad seed soWn i'll childhood
They are the outcome of wrong mo-
tiYes and mistaken methods applied
in the early stages of educational
development. Such results are as GER