Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-12

OF there is anything under Heav-
en-" said Col. McGiinoy at the late dali
rvmen's convention at Mankato, that
will raise o mortgage off your farm
Quicker than a COW, / don't know what
it is. 1t has proved to be the best
mortgage litter that was ever intro
duced into Illinois, Iowa or Wiscon-
sin, and it will do as much for Mime
sofa as it has done for those states; and
we welcome Minnesota. the youngest
%dairymaid Of the qnartette, into our
midst" Col. McGlincy speaks whereof
he knows on the subject OF dairying.
TO the modest, transformations. lncon-
sequential COW must we look for the
guide that shall conduct the victims of
misplaced confidence in wheat from
their wilderness of debt to %independ-
ence and prosperity.
The Scientific American, the leading
paper OF its class in the country, un-
der the heading "Schooled but Not Ed
ucated," discusses a topic which bears
a most important relation to the meth
dds Of instruction in vogue in this day
and land, The argument is that our
colleges and schools neither furnish
the information required for the grave
responsibilities which men have to
meet in practical business, nor materi-,
ally enlarge the capacity and facility
for securing this information by sub
sequent experience. 1t says: "The in
tellectual habits acquired in school and
college may possibly enable him ulti-
mately to grapple with greater power
and skill with the later problems of
real li%fe-=greaJer, that is, than he
would have shown had he been left en-
tirely unschooled; yet in the admins
tration of affairs he is likely to be dis
tanced for the best part of his life by
the unschooled practical man who
knows from early and real experience
precisely what to do in any emergency.
The young man fresh from school is
apt to know with thorough4ess much
that the busy world has no use for. He
has general notions of many arts and
sciences, but his positive knowledge Of
the realities upon which such arts and
sciences are based is usually next to
nothing; still less does he know of the
practical methods of men who apply
them to human uses. His educational
years have been spent mainly in a
world apart from and largely out of re-
lation with the modern working world
he is to enter upon when his schooling
ends. His education, admirable as it
may appear from a theoretical point of
view, serves rather to unfit than to fit
him for practical life; and his real edu-
cation has to begin afresh In the rude
and costly school Of experience"
1t is not the worst feature of mod
ern schooling that it is really made
quate for the practical purposes of life,
but a more insidious feature is that
the recipient Of it is generally i'm
pressed with the idea that when he
graduates he has been fitted with all
the knowledge necessary. If the boy
or young man could understand, when
he leaves school or college that he is
now merely ready to learn and that his
practical education is but beginning
instead Of having been completed, he
would be much the better for this COM
prehenslon; but the fact is that the
methods and the surroundings of an
ordinary so-called higher education are
such as to debauch the mind of the
youth, and make it well-nigh impossi-
bic for him to understand that books
and stated lessons do not contain all
that it is necessary to knoW,-Ex.