Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1838-11-15
yEt. SOEEzEER.s' Es,S1ETUTfO.S'
OF EDUCATION.

corps OF Instructors
It's plan has been in part, laid before the public
Bur tlethods once the only ones known among cur
ueoplc have now SO completely sunk under the IN
y,s,ons of system oil clap-ap. that ii necessary
boih to explain aud To indicate them In such as
t,ao bayeyer the modest but stately matrous, that
adorned the South IN better days, were unused, be
fore vet Short Methods had come IN. or the efndIte
pefsons who bflng US their wares oil Education.
had lorsaken the kindred but more innocent trade OF
TIM and Woodeu-na,megs.
Instead OF Methods foreign to our manners our
feelings and opinions we ann 10 revive SYSTEM
domestic aud home bred, that shall shun alike tat
laeious instruction and alien instructors. we
teach theu, FIRST indispensable, the solld paris OF
an English observation-disclosures winch all the SCI
ences IN the Encyclopedia cannot make II less thah
foolish not to know completely. We labour 10 uaIn
al Store the Mind before attempting to decorate H.
The FIRST aud principal points are, 10 read correctly
and eXpressisely To write currently 10 acquire
tn practical ant OF Numbers To master that most
noble aud useful branch Of knowledge, History and
To obtain some familiarity with what Is called Polite
Leiefs in general These are in the prevailing sys-
tenn sighted. order 10 hurry forward the scholar to
the shcwy Nothngs of pretended Sciences.
Property Of Speech we mpart, not By Grammars
and Dictionaries but 10 daily habit, carefully en-
forced. Composition is taught, not by set rules and
forms, but by the varied and progressive practice OF
several Studies in which the daily examinations are
conducted in writing. Arithmetic, rs necessary III
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Needle-worlt, Cookery, and the other Household
Arts are practsed, according rs the Puphs age pur-
mlfs The Manners, the Temper, and the Con
duet are watched and formed, with the utmost soil
citudc, as things which Happiness, Respecta5lhty,
and the power of Pleasing depend far more than
! on Wit, Leaning the Accomplishments. Gen
1 tlencss OF dcmeanour attachment to Order care
of the Seemly, a taste for knowledge needing no
compusion, aud the Sense aud the Love oil whatever
in Elegant Sutcs inspires refined and elevated Sen
t,Yit pI II p1tt
It's necessary that all women be learned orac-
compshed II Is necessary that all women be ami
bic.
I History, as the creatke to a knowledge of hu-
man affairs. the School OF whatever IS wise or
! gaod,-is taught with particular. care; not by
barren Compends. COMPRISING the facts nil every
thing truly instructive is squeezed ont OF them but
by Narrative lively and detailed. far possible thai
OF the Original Writer'S ot each nation. 1t Is accom-
panied with lis necessary plucldalIons; Geography,
/ the History al Literature and Ant and that OF In
stitutons Manners, and Opinions
| foreign Tongue Che Ffeneh) Is begun, rs soon
as the pupil can read English well. 1t IS made the
common language of the House; and is used part
~ for Its own sake, but principally as the means of
/ arriving knowledge OF Grammar unattainabc
/ without the study of some dialect besides our
own. French is also employed the vehicle OF
part oithe Historical Studies and those OF Taste.
The Course, 1t will be perceived, is far more a
Literary dian Scientific lis spn not that
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amassed only for display. Regarding Modcsty as
The first law OF Female Excellence aud love OF
knowledge rs the only sound principle which to
found 1t, plan avoids every thing connected with
Exhibition, and even the sllnulauts oil Emulation, as
usually brought to act.
The Discipline IS careful, but Ccnflc--copying as
Tar possible, that OF well-ordered Domestic Edu-
cation. 10 tins, indeed, the whole Plan eudeavours
to conform itself, the purcst, the most efficient
and capable # the best results. whether as to the
Morals, the Manners. the Mind,
To compare 1t with the adverse systematic one.
graspng at every thing, must for that reason, fail in
every thing the other selecting those better parts
of knowledge winch fit the Sex aud are aitalnable in
its ordinary time Of study, teaches these both well
and modestlv. That system desires little, but the
ostentation OF kuowlcdge-oufs nothing but its re
atty. That seeks TO adotn the outside OF the Mind
this to inform and nyloorae 1t within. The formers
en1mourcd OF tlnsel and gcwgaws, cares little what
poverty lurk beneath. can shine in confused
add useless hncty: the latter Is studlous only OF an
elegant pldnness, Oh the becoming and the good The
foreign plan reoces the shreds, the patches, the
clippings, the mutations, the trash, of any pursuit
with long name; and passes Common Sense and
Taste dstainiulIy by. The banished one, which
we would revive, regards Science Of small ac-
count for womcn-frSi. because little applicable To
their occupations Scc0Hdiy because ALWAYS taught
them lmperectly Hrdtg because dixie all otheriase
know ledge) it ytates, instead OF improving, both the
Understanding aud the Taste; j6arttllj, because.
even as to its only purpose, Display, 1t renders
woman in grown Society, ridiculous instead OF
pleasing: that, being useless ITSELF being
slightly taught. aud being laughed al whenever dis
played, is totally clced from the mud lcav-
ing as blank and as barren these unhappy pans
had ucY CT been taken.
Finally-to state precisely the comparative results
= of the two sy,tems-hc one is admirable for ma
king marvellous School girls, who will never be any
thing better, IN either mind or manners the prodI
gies OF scene. fit only for breeding Actresses