CHAPTEE XLIV. 



EDUCATION TO THE INDUSTRIES. 



IMPORTANCE OF THE SUBJECT. 



Education is one of the most potent factors in the advance 

 ment of the rising generation to the status which they should 

 properly occupy. After the rudiments of a fair English 

 education are secured, the youth who aspires to become a 

 working man should be pushed in the acquirement of certain 

 knowledge relating to the industry which he contemplates 

 pursuing. The farmer s boy readily masters the art of 

 driving horses, plowing, reaping, binding, stacking, the care 

 of the domestic animals, etc. For this it is not necessary 

 that he should go to school. It must be learned on the 

 farm, just as the tradesman acquires his art under the di 

 rection of a master workman. 



There is something, however, beyond all this or, we 

 might almost say, before it ; for it underlies the economies 

 of every trade and profession in life. What is it? The 

 study of the sciences underlying the profession or art that 

 is to constitute the life-work of the individual. 



This subject is beginning to interest the thinking portion 

 of the present generation ; it is the lever that will move the 

 next. The why, and not the how, is the true point to be 

 aimed at ; for proper knowledge concerning the first makes 



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