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Education a luxury.

--The Syndic of Mongluffi Melia, in the jurisdiction of Messina, having received an invitation from the Provincial Council to send a young woman from the commune to follow the course of instruction given in the new normal school just opened in the city, returned the following answer: "The commune of Mongluffi Melia does not recognize the utility of female education, inasmuch as its women are for the most part employed in tending cattle and in providing for the wants of our daily life. Education is an article of luxury, admissible only in great cities, and never in poor and miserable communities. Even if the Government insisted on giving us a schoolmistress, she would infallibly die of starvation. At all events, the commune is unable to meet the charge of educating a young woman to become a schoolmistress. Consequently, the Council has unanimously decided that the commune wants no teachers, and that the application made to it by the provincial authorities be rejected accordingly." --Gazette of Messina.

The Daily Dispatch: June 18, 1864. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. June 18, 1864. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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