The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1879-10-09
Agricultural.


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tioe e ihs resalts q ssstHi.sueut
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CLERKS Responses 70 the gormef com
- ones t~os asd tArees 60 the latte
~ huhdre4s Parties soi.citiuF iuBd
ta bostoa f9r ngligtous aud lcpevolep
pufPosrs report that many wealth.
people decline % give. Or give 10
little, because. - they say. lbey bAvt
- maay poor relatives u support.
WY i i that boys ~ want 10 b,
clerks % professional mea Why il /
that istslligeat parents parents en-
courage them ~ these IDEAS. aud i
locking dowa upon iadustlial employ
ments, Notwithstanding that 10 ever,
place The average earrings Of clerk,
and young professional men are no
where pear 80 large a. the earnings d
industrial workmcn u Intelligence and
fair education Il there auy calling
more sretcbejly mechanical than syer
age cisrking' The puzzled Scientific
American, ~ view OF these things,
woaderiagly asks. Why il il that
teachers almost Invariably train their
pupils 70 lh,k above Industrial par-
suits
These things are Aa ackuoweledg ed
ev'l, acknowledged even among those
most welded { IL. aud whu. 10 asking
Why 40 and so does not triug up his
boys To trades. have no intention ~ -
bringing up their own boys. tut merely
want The young so.Aud so's 10 get out
Of their way 10 their struggle Tor gen
terl employ pent
The chiet reason. 10 our judgment,
lor this kind Of folly. il the lack Of that
social pride aud proper sell.asserlion
among industrial classes which come
from good education ia the line of
their business Let young mechanics
and farmers be educated for their bust.
ness as young men designed for mer.
camille aud professional life are educat.
ID drained in the branches Of knowl.
EDGE most useful in the work they
propose 90 undertake. aud all those
ines Of work will become Just as
'espectable as commerce aud the pro-
essions There is limit, soon reached. |
or the entrance into succt ssful bust.
lese, Az mlddlemen OF any class, and !
sill closer limit as regards the SO
allied professions. But 10 industry |
here is no limit Educated farmers
ND mechanics can find openings by
he million. The market for educated
rains ~ these avocalions has no as
ertaiued bounds. either as regards
numbers or profit. But and here
omes the very point of the matter
he education Introductory to COM
nerce and the professions is neither
efficient nor of the right kind to pre-.
are young people for the useful arts.
We want an entirely new system OF
raining for these businesses, with new
lethods and far more skilfuI class
! teachers than any we now have.
he development OF industrial educa.
on must be Glow at first, but a begin.
ing has been made. aud the demand il
, pressing that the way will rapidly
pen. There is no better thing for
mart young men aud women now to :
1gage in than TO fit themselves for :
'aehers OF industrial schools And
lere is an additional inducement in
lis, that should there be an over
apply Of industrial teachers at any
me there is an immediate opening
ON the teaching to the practice of all
Ie arts, The teacher OF agriculture
no Is out Of work can always go to
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