While thus proceeding, he could also obtain the promise of one or more intelligent persons in each county, to write on the subject every week in each of the county newspapers. Articles thus addressed to the reason, the patriotism, and the _economy_ of the people, would have a powerful effect, and cost nothing. If funds could be provided from private benevolence to establish proper _Teachers’ Institutions_ in two or three states, they would set the matter far ahead in a few years. They would serve as _models_ and _inducements_ to the public, and would not long continue to need the support of private philanthropy. They would really be _normal_, or _pattern_ establishments. Beyond a doubt, the plan ought to embrace institutions for the preparation of _female_ teachers. The gentleness, self-devotion, and untiring humanity of women eminently qualify them to be the instructers of the more youthful pupils of both sexes, and of their own of all ages. There is not a show of any reason why male teachers only should be provided for at the public charge, when female teachers are as necessary, as useful, and as much confided in by the public. _From the Rev. Mr. Sturtevant, President of Illinois College._ “In regard to some voluntary organization to secure popular education, if it were worked with a truly liberal and Christian spirit, it could, and would, do us great good in this state: first, by collecting statistics of our wants, and calling attention (by _the press_, and by _public lectures_ all over the state) to these wants, and to what has been accomplished in other states and countries. 2. By supporting, at least in part, _model schools_ in different parts of the state, to show, _by example_, what good schools are. 3. By bringing public sentiment to bear on the Legislature, especially in reference to our _school fund_. It is now nearly _two millions_, and is yearly increasing. _Now_, its whole management is left to the unregulated action of the Legislature, without a _single mind_ devoted to acquiring and disseminating knowledge as to the proper mode of using it. Whether, any one year, there shall be even one _intelligent_ friend of education in our Legislature, is a matter of chance. If some plan be not devised for leading the Legislature to wise views, the object of this fund will be lost. It will a little diminish the expense for each child, but add nothing towards getting better schools.” President Sturtevant’s account of the deplorable state of their schools, and of the _public apathy_ on the subject, is mournful. _From the Rev. Henry Beecher, of Indianapolis, Indiana._ Much can be done in Indiana, much _ought_ to be done, and _speedily_; for, 1. It will be a more densely-populated state than Ohio or Illinois, because its land is _uniformly good_.