School Journal and Vermont Agriculturist
Vol 1 is unbound, other volumes bound
Vol 1, p. 2, col, 1
Introduction cont.
"Again, we are an agricultural people--more exclusively so than the
citizens of any other State. . .And as agriculture is of course
improved with the increase of intelligence among those devoted to it,
it follows that the better education of our children is the surest way
to secure the permanent improvement of our farms and increase of our
agricultural products and wealth."
Vol 1: p. 2 col 2
Need for the journal:
1) "intelligent and active friends of Education and Agriculture in the
State...are of the opinion that such a journal is important."
2) "Within the two last years the people of Vermont have been placed,
by our legislature, in a position relative both the objects
contemplated in this Journal, which they have never before occupied. We
refer to the existing school law, the law authorizing the geological
survey of the State, and that making appropriations to Agricultural
Societies."
New York and Mass have good papers, but not local enough and too
expensive. Few papers on Education in the state.
3) "It is known that there is a diversity of opinion in relation
to our existing school law, that a few regard it with distrust, while
others do not hesitate to declare their opposition to it. That there
are defects in the law are doubtless true; and yet that it contains the
germ of incalculable good to the rising generation and to the State we
think unquestionable. If the necessary information could be generally
dessiminated, we are sure it would do away objections and would secure
greater confidence and unanimity..."
What better way than to publish them in a journal "and convey them, in
a convenient and cheap form, to their neighbors' firesides."
Vol. 1 No. 12. p. 177
State Superintendant to Editors: The School Journal should be
continued! Education is not about memorizing facts but about "forming
character and making men--thinking, acting, upright, useful men." It
should be a lifelong process.
Vol 1. No. 12. p. 169, col. 2
County Agricultural Societies: comments on reports from societies
published in papers, has information on yields, good crops, etc. for
wheat, corn, oats, carrots, ruta bagas, sugar beets, with info on
who is growing what, how, and how much.