Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-01-24
TOO MUCH EDUCATION.
Manual Training Much More Useful Than
the Ordinary College Course.

manual Ihueh .'hOtS t'>"-
the Ordinary College Course.
A Gottingen professor who is alarmed
because good brewer commands larger
wages in Germany than Greek profess
sor, has written book to demonstrate
that there is too much learning In the
world, and that our educational methods
must be reformed so as to appreciate
the value of scholarship. He shows that
there are now entered on the rolls of the
German universities 1000 students, and
that fully one-half of these hopeful
youths are doomed to poverty and dis
appointment. The Gottingen professor
is right in his doleful prediction if these
20, 900 young men are being educated
for the ''gentlemanly professions in
stead of the more lucrative and more
certain callings of industrial life. But
If these 30, 900 young German college
students had it in mind to turn their
hands to manual labor when they left
college they would not be hurt by the
stock of learning they are accumulat-
ing. A carpenter or a blacksmith or a
shopkeeper is none the worse for being
scholar. The real trouble is in that
false idea which is current that educa-
ton disqualities person for manual
pursuits. and that the educated man or
woman must find station somewhere
in the professions. Still, it is loss of
time for young person to devote years
to the study of the dead languages
when the same period spent in a manual
training school would give the prepare
ton required, and thus enable him to
secure profitable employment immedi
ately upon leaving school. 1t has
long been the fault of our educa-
tional methods that there are too many
captains and not enough privates being
turned out from our schools and col
leges. Now that it is coming to pass the
priv ates are receiving more wages than
the captains, the fault will correct it.
self. We have the evidence of this in
the disposition to make manual train
ing part of our common school system
here in America. Manual training and
technical education in mechanical pur-
suits is being incorporated into nearly
all of the schools of our American cities.
Private enterprise has also taken hold
of the subject. There is private insti.
tuition of this kind in New York, which
S well patronized, and whole graduates
are in demand by master mechanics, as
hey make better workmen than are
urned out by the loose apprenticeship
,ystcm.-St. Paul Globe.
At the patriarch's mansion, which,
Indeed, Is oniJ Dig, plain, stone
mousse OF two stories. we We're met by
several priests in long black gowns,
which fell in full folds from their
necks to their feet, and in tall, round.
black caps, with capes falling down
upon their backs. These put their
hahds to their foreheads rs we entered
and motioned us to come in. We then
assembled wide stairway, at the sides
OF winch were brass ratings, and at
the top of which stood more nriests
similarly attired. Here we were taken
INTO great hall, where the portraits
OF the patriarchs of the past looked
uown upon us out of gold frames and
lheh on into u second grand salon. in
whlch were number OF Turkish sol.
ulers and church dignitaries, and at the
oach OF which in chair of state SAT
the patriarch himself. He rose as he
saw us ana moved toward us. Tall
road-shouldered and well-formed be
Is one OF the tinest-lool<ing men | have
eYer seem He has magnificent head
wei set on pair of broad shoulders.
large intellectual eyes. big, straight
nose, and long, patriarchal beard q,
SADIE silver. His high forehead w,s
oordered with black cap of fine cloth
winch rose for full six inches above IL
ana from the back of which fell n cane
Vi tue same color, forming a strixino
background to his strong, intellieen,
race lie wore a long, full gown u,
some hne black cloth, and he had two
gorgeous gold medals about his neck
e"cn as big as the palm of your hand
Anu between these hung a cross of die
n'olus' lie met us in the middle nj
'he salon. shook hands with MS and
. eonuucled us to divan at the riobt al
, MS chalr of state. We then cbattod
through the Interpreter. the legation
undressing him, according to etiouetta
- your blessedness. IF, G. Ca,nn
81 IN Louisville Courier-J ournal