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"wasted means and disappointed expectations. This country cannot 

 afford this misapplication. The inventive faculty is one which is very 

 "widely bestowed, and all that it requires for success is a knowledge 

 of what it works with and what it works on. 



I cannot see why there should not be in this large city public free 

 schools of design, schools of art and manufacture. If it be ac- 

 knowledged to be a state obligation to educate the youth, let them be 

 educated in their life business — in that education which their country 

 will profit by. 



In this country there is little opportimity for learning a trade or 

 art thoroughly. Apprenticeship eflfects this in Europe. Public edu- 

 cation should do it here. Every mining district of Germany has its 

 school of mines and manufactures. 



In Paris there are several public institutions in which the most sci- 

 entific minds of the day are employed in orally instructing classes up- 

 on the present condition and recent improvements in the arts of dye- 

 ing, manufacture of paints and colors, of cotton prints, of porcelain 

 and glass. There is a central school of arts and trades, and a school 

 of mining and agriculture, with branch establishments, in the large 

 cities of France, all under the direction of the minister of the interior, 

 and admission to most, gratuitous — to the rest for a very moderate 

 sum. 



Britain has now numerous schools of design. This country should 

 not be behind in the race. She should give in her public schools an 

 industrial education — an education for trade. Such a school ought 

 the free academy to be — and such a school, does a larg^ manufactu- 

 ring and a commercial city hke New-York absolutely require. 



