Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-11-06

the fame time. rafalyles every noble effort
An intempesase or an over paiifonsSe
perfon, or any one who does not govern
bimJSJf, is unfit to govern children. Mach
depends upon The prudent government Of
lchools. Order, in them, is funaaHleil a ]
reqaifte. Iforder were generally uaie-
tanned in families, il would be eaiy y
maintain it in fhoo!s ard if the children
throughout the nation might be acca9ontd
to order, both under the domelt;c root, &
in lchoois, very few Of them, in their ripper
years would become diforderly members of
fsciety. Crimes would be prevented and
the public would, in great moafure be re-
liercd from the expence Ct building and
Importing pritons.
In every cooiderabie fc.1oo!, the gene
raj laws By which il is governed, fhouid
be printed AMI pafed u in the lchoo room,
for the information Of the {cholafs and
it would be we'll to annex 70 each law TIE
penalty that ihould be incurred by tranc
grefing il; at the ianie time, the law that
mould be chiefly uied and enforced in
tcaools, is, tie law ef kiadu.E." The
aaruIy aud obitinate who cannot be won
Dy fair means, mutt be reduced TO order
BY coertion bur a matters principle en-
deavour, in governing his lchoo', thaald
Be 10 ob:a:n she cordial refpstt and afec,
tionate attachment Of his fcholars which
would enable him 70 " draw them with
cords Of love-" He hoalti aHiluoully ply
the more ingenious principles and psaions
of human nature, and, by all poRible means,
hoald i2rive TO awaken in them a lively
ambition to excel, in learning, in a decent
behaviour, and in every ti.:ng that is love.
ly+ Its Of no fmlil importance for pa
rents TO take geners, ard vifble interea
IN The fJhools which they (urport, by mani
letting fuch a degree OF FrlpeGt toward
the teacher, as will tend TO render them
Respectable il the view of their children :;
and alfo By Whiting tse fchoois, at itated
periods, & wi,neiing their Improvements,
which operates as powerful fpur 10 emu
lation and ioduhry.
n fchoo!s fuch as have been deicribed,
children, beginning TO learn efficiently
early, might be decentIy prepares, in
point of learning, for the rommn butineis
rof life, a, the age of eleven or twelve !;
which is as (oon as they are capable of con-
Gderably afifing their parents il active
and laborious occupations. Thus no time
IN obtaining fchool- education would be
loft. Ga the contrary, the habits Of or
der, fobriety and indafry, which had
been mixed at ichcol, would render d.
ligence, in the daily and laborious en-
ployments OF life, much lets irkione TO
them, than it is to others who have iaun.
tered away their childhood in idlenels.
When the hand Of avarice ihall be un-
c!enched when a liberal zeal to promote
u(e{sI education lhall pervade the nation;
when decent ichool-houles fhall be planted,
as far as may be practicable, at conve-
ent dlHances from each other, over the
whole country, ana lhall be generally ocu-
pied by capable and worthy inaruttors:
when fuch national regeneration G1a|l
happen, there will be every thing TO hope
ami but little to fear, respecting the Per
maneoee of our privileges, ard the general
prolpe.ity Of the United States.
SENEX.
+ General Scanned, an amiable man and a
valuable officer, who was lain in battle during