CHAPTEE XLV. 



POPULAR AGITATION ON INDUSTRIAL EDUCA 

 TION. 



A WANT LONG FELT. 



The necessity has long been recognized among our more 

 advanced thinkers of some system of education that should 

 be to the industrial classes what the schools of law, medi 

 cine, and theology are to those professional classes. In the 

 West this need was especially felt, and such men as Profes 

 sor J. B. Turner, Bronson Murray, John Gage, Smiley Shep 

 herd, John Davis, and other educators, were engaged in pre 

 paring the public mind therefor for over thirty years. The 

 feeling on this subject led to the calling of a convention in 

 1851, at Greenville, 111., at which this important question 

 was fully discussed. Two of the resolutions there adopted 

 were as follows : 



Resolved, That, as the representatives of the industrial 

 classes, including all cultivators of the soil, artizans, me 

 chanics, and merchants, we desire the same privileges and 

 advantages for ourselves, our fellows, and our posterity, in 

 each of our several pursuits and callings, as our professional 

 brethren enjoy in theirs ; and we admit that it is our own 

 fault that we do not also enjoy them. 



Resolved, That, in our opinion, the institutions originally 



and primarily designed to meet the wants of the professional 



classes, as such, can not, in the nature of things, meet 



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