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Michigan State Education
The fact is now quite generally conceded, that in the grand accession of settlers at the period I have named, Michigan enjoyed the advantage of a larger percentage of educated people than any other of the newly formed states.
Other essayists have most graphically portrayed the toil and hardship, the privation and actual suffering so bravely endured by our pioneer settlers, in their earnest and often protracted battle of life. Upon this part of their record we have no leisure for further comment. But we have other aspects of the case to present, and other equally arduous labors of theirs to recount.
We speak advisedly, and from an intimate acquaintance with them as a class, when we affirm that, aside from the necessity of providing for the physical wants of their families, the great solicitude of those pioneer parents was, to secure for their offspring the facilities and the discipline of a suitable educational training. Withdrawn as their children suddenly were from schools and other sources of culture, those parents became a prey to the keenest anxiety, lest the mental powers of offspring might be clouded by ignorance or dwarfed by neglect.
University of Michigan
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