Letters on Elementary and Practical EducationJ.J. Williams, 1841 - 119 էջ |
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Էջ 41 - ... a want of decency, enforced upon boys and girls, will become physical and moral turpitude in men and women. But build it where some sheltering hill or wood mitigates the inclemency of winter ; where a neighboring grove tempers the summer heat, furnishing cool and shady walks ; remove it a little from the public highway, and from buildings where noisy and clattering trades are carried on ; and. above all, rescue it from sound or sight of all resorts for license and dissipation...
Էջ 41 - ... and the inconvenience of going fifty or even eighty rods farther is not to be compared with the benefit of spending a whole day in a healthful, comfortable, pleasing spot, one full of salutary influences upon the feelings and temper. Place a schoolhouse in a bleak and unsheltered situation, and the difficulty of attaining and preserving a proper degree of warmth is much increased; put it upon a sandy plain, without shade or shelter from the sun, and the whole school is subjected...
Էջ 53 - Woman, whatever are her relations in life, is necessarily the guardian of the nursery, the companion of childhood, and the constant model of imitation It is her hand that first stamps impressions on the immortal spirit, that must remain for ever. And what demands such discretion, such energy, such patience, such tenderness, love, and wisdom...
Էջ 41 - But experience and reason enable us to foresee such consequences, and, foreseeing, to^control them. Adults alone can perform such a duty. If they neglect it, the children must suffer. It has been often objected to the people of our State, that they insist upon having the schoolhouse in the geographical centre of the district. And, other things being equal, surely it ought to be in the centre. But the house is erected for the children, and not for the acres ; and VOL.
Էջ 52 - ... where the people are not held in restraint by physical force, as in despotic governments, but where, if they do not voluntarily submit to the restraints of virtue and religion, they must inevitably run loose to wild misrule, anarchy, and crime. For a nation to be virtuous and religious, the females of that nation must be deeply imbued with these principles; for just as the wives and mothers sink or rise in the scale of virtue, intelligence, and piety, the husbands and the sons will rise or fall....
Էջ 52 - These measures will have the same effect on female education, as medical and theological schools have upon those professions. They tend to elevate and purify, although they cannot succeed in banishing all stupidity and empiricism. Another object to be aimed at in regard to female education is, to introduce into schools such a course of intellectual and moral discipline, and such attention to mental and personal habits, as shall have a decided influence in fitting a woman for her peculiar duties....
Էջ 25 - And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Governor of this province to appoint from time to time in each of the cities and towns corporate therein, not less than six nor more than fourteen persons...
Էջ 53 - Woman also is the presiding genius who must regulate all those thousand minutiae of domestic business, that demand habits of industry, order, neatness, punctuality, and constant care. And it is for such varied duties that woman is to be trained. For this her warm sympathies, her lively imagination, her ready invention, her quick perceptions, all need to be cherished and improved; while at the same time those more foreign habits, of patient attention, cairn judgment, steady efficiency, and habitual...
Էջ 41 - ... without shade or shelter from the sun, and the whole school is subjected to the evils of heat and dust : plant it in low marshy grounds, and it exposes to colds or to more permanent diseases of the lungs, and impairs habits of cleanliness both in dress and person ; make one side of it the boundary of a public road, and the persons of the children are endangered by the travel, when out, and their attention, when in, called off the lesson by every...
Էջ 42 - ... and pensive ; and the impetuous and exuberant of spirit only want a place to let off the redundant activity of their arms and legs. And how cheaply can these sources of gratification be purchased! Sometimes a little of the spirit of compromise; sometimes a little forgetfulness of strifes among the parents, engendered on other subjects, would secure to the children the double boon of utility and enjoyment. Yet how often are the unoffending children ground between the collisions of their parents!