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Michigan State Education
In the former, teachers are accomplished in their art, whilst in the latter, the class of our youths destined for agricultural pursuits, pass through a course of experimental and scientific farming, both theoretically and practically.
Even our institution established for the restraint and discipline of youthful criminals has been modeled into a reform school. Neglected or perverse waifs, floating on the surface of society, and drifting into vice and crime, are there being educated into true manhood, and trained for future usefulness. Many, thus thoroughly reclaimed, have already entered upon an honorable career in industrial pursuits.
To achieve these marked and highly beneficial results has demanded that absorbing interest, necessarily calling into exercise both nerve and perseverance. The incipient steps in those several fields of effort have met with opposition, and final success has not been achieved without sharp antagonisms. This has arisen in part from a diversity of views, and in part from a class of persons accustomed to a more limited mental survey; doubtless some were to be found yielding to selfish motives or a parsimonious policy.
University of Michigan
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