Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-11-02
EDUCATION.
FARTHER Extracts from YIELDS Report ON
Manual Labor.

FARTHER Extracts from YIELDS Report ON
Manual Labor.
III. THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF EDUCA-
TON IS PERILoUs TO MORALS.
The Committee are respectfully refer
redto the following testimony:
Youth must and will have employ
ment Of some kind They cannot study
always In our colleges they are usual
ly suffered to devise their own ways and
means Of amusement They are expect
ed indeed, perhaps exhorted, to take exer-
else, and .hey are allowed abundance OF
time for the purpose. Still the whole con-
Germ is left to their own discretion. The
time they have; and the question is. how
do they spend t2 Often in mere idle
4ounging, talking, smoking, and sleeping {;
often in sedentary games, which, wheth-
er in themselves lawful or unlawful are
always injurious to The, student, because
he requires recreation Of a different kind f;
but too frequently in low, degrading dissi-
patton. in drinking and gaming, to the
utter neglect Of every duty. and to the at
ter abandonment, and sacrifice Of every
principle of honor and virtue. will
not finish The melanchol y picture which [
had begun to sketch, not indeed from fan.
cyor from books. but from facts which |
have often witnessed, and which have
sometimes led me almost to question the
the community. Still. with all their faults
remain their decided advocate. Bot
may they not be improved or may not
others be organized upon wiser and safer
principles W-President Lindsey, Nash
uiIIs- Uriversity.
TAe stEden! would be kept busy. In
the present system, there are three or four
hours in oil institutions, during which the
student is set free from all requisitons.=-
He has nothing TO do. Then, If unlVer-
sal experience proves any thing, he stands
upon slippery places 1t was when the
unc lean spirit had found the house empty
that he introduc ed seven other spirits foul
er than himself. Let any man visit oul
literary institutions, and take an invehiory
oil facts upon this subject, and he Will D.
convinced that hours Of idleness are gil
to the student originating in very ques
tionable bensvolence. In fine, moderl
education, by throwing into the hands o
youth number of entirely vacant hour
each day.. holds out a premium TO imsu6
ordination. and practically legallzes those
innumerable devices Of mischief, indecen
CIV, and outrage, which abound in oul
literary institutions. Instead of surround
ing the former character with buwafks o
defence, it opens THOUSAND avenues OF &C
cess, and surrenders the individual to in
discriminate assault. Yea, more; it fur
nishes temptation with a passport to 1t
victim. smooths the way for it, beckons
onward, and by refusing to make those re
QUESTIONS which would keep it at bay, be
comes its endorser, appears as its apollo
gist and advocate, and pleads for justIfica
ton ofthe ruin it produces. Whereas,
this defect in the existing order of thing
should. give place to regulation whicI
would 6il up with suitable exercise thos
hours Of idleness so perilous to the stu
dent, he would be kept Tout Of harms way
Sufficient exercise would be a proven
hive Of moral evils by Supplying that d.
mGnd for Uioid sensation so charGctert
tic of youth, whose clamors for indulgenc
drive multitudes to licentious indulgenc,
or 10 ardent spirits, tobacco, and other VI
natural stimulants. 1t would preserv
the equilibrium Of The system, moderat
the inorIinate demands OF animal excits
bilhy, and quelI the instruction of apps
Aite.
Sufficient exercise would operate as
preventive Of moral evils by removia
those causes ofirritability, jealousy, fickl
ness, and depression Of spirits, which al
found in an unheahhful state of the sy
TEN. In Confederation of these view
permit me 10 introduce the following te
aimony:
"The most effectual security again
external aad internal causes ofcorruptic
is constant occupation and without thi
no system Of discipline can be Efficient
And it is especially importar
while the character is yet uniformed, al
the appetites and passions yet unaccr
toned to submission and selfdenial." ~
Annais Of Education. .5.,.- 49,, -.
I. Industry Is the great moraiizer
man. The great art of s@uratioR, the
fore. consists in knowing how to occu
evevy mnment in soeH directed and Gsej
activity ertIe yOutl FIJI Ponosrs "-Fslts
berg. - %. $3.50.
The declaration is ~ trite as il is tn
that e1erciss promotes rirtas, and 9,
DIVES Ae siorms Of passion. DR.. Hary
~ PAsiadslphia, on Physical Culssy,.