Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1838-10-04
THE SOUTsSER.y' F.rSTETUTEO.S'
OF EDUCATION.
r THE BEDFORD FEMALE &C

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n linear Liberty, Va.) opened IN November
last aud IS now fitted up aud organized, under COED
corps oil instructions
lis plan has been, in part, laid before the public.
Rnt .,ethods once the only ones known among our
ueople have now 50 completely sunk under the in
yasia. of system OF cap-trap. that II IS necessary
borh 10 exp..:a au1 to vndicate them. In such as
these however the mode, hut stately matrons that
adorned the South IN better days, we're 0di5cd, he
fore vet Short Methods had come IN. or the erudite
persons who bring us their wares OF Education,
had orsaken the kIndred but more innocent trade oil
Tin-pans and Woodcu-nutmcgs
Instead oil Methods foreign 10 our manners, our
feelings and our opinions, we aim 10 revive system,
domestic and home bred, that shall shun alike ial-
lacous instruction and alien instructors. We
teach, then, FIRST Indispensable, the s0iid parts oil
an English Educatfon-things winch all the Sci
enccs IN the Encyclopedia cannot make II less than
foolish not To know completely. We labour to uaIn
aud the Mind, before attempting decorate IT,
The first aud principal points are, To read correctly
and expressyely 70 write currently To acquire
tn, practical art OF Numbers To master that most
noble and useful branch Of knowledge. History and
To OBTAIN some familiarity with what Is called Polite
Lcitefs m general. These are, IN the prevailing sys
lighted IN order TO hurry forward the scholar TO
the shcwv Nothings Of pretended Sciences.
Property oil Speech we mpart. not BY Grammais
and Dictionaries, bnt by 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 III wiring. Arithmetic, necessary in
every condition OF life, receives strict attention..
Ncede-~ork Cookery, and the other Household
Ats are pracllScd, according the Pupils age pur-
nuts. The Manners the Temper. aud the Con-
duet are watched and formed, with the utmost soil
citude, things winch Happiness, Respectfully,
and the power ofPleasing depend far than
on Wit, Leaning, or the Accomplishments. Gen.
lencss OF demeanour, attachment to Order care
oil the Seemy, a taste for knowledge needing no
compulsion, aud the Sense and the Love OF whatever
IN Elegant Studies, inspires refined and elevated Sen
tmcns, with u.s. the main thought of Education.
1t is not necessary that all women be learned or &C
compllshed Is necessary thai all women be amla-
BILE
History, the great key to knowledge oC hui
mln affairs the School Of whatever is wise or
! goods taught with particular not by
barren Compends, COMPRISING the facts Til every
thing truly Instructive squeezed out OF them but
by Narrative. lively aud detailed as far as possible that
OF The Original Writers OF each nation. 1t is accom-
panied with its necessary calculations; Geography.
| the History OF Literature and Art and that OF In
situations, Manners, and Opinions.
\ foreign Tongue Uhc French) is begun. as soon
as the pupil read English well. 1t is made the
common language Of the House; and is used part
| ly for Its own sake, but principally as the means OF
| arriving NJ knowledge Of Grammar, unattanablc
without the study OF some dialect besides oui
own. French is also employed as the vehicle u
The Course, it will be perceived, is far more a
Literary than Scientific Its spirit is not that
OF idly heaped-up things, unelt, understood, o,
amassed only for display. Regarding Niodesty Il,
the first law OF Female Excellence, aud love o
knowledge as the only sound principle on which Il
found II, plan avoids every thing connected wrtl
Exhibition, and even the smuants OF Emulaon IA
usually brought to act.
The Discipline IS careful but gentle-copying. a
Ear as possible, that OF we-ordered Domestic Edu
IA IL
to conform itself, the puresr, the most efficient
and capable Il the best results whether as to tn,
Morals, the Manners, on the Mind.
TO compare it with the adverse systematic one
graSplng at every thing, must, to that reason ail il
every thing the other, selecting those better part.
Of Know ledge which fit the Sex aud aitauabe il
its ordinary time of study tedo hes these both wei
and modestly. That system desires little but TIA,
ostentaon OF knowlcdge-ours, nothing but its re
auy. That seeks TO adorn the outside of the Mind
this to inform and nvI2orae II within. The former
enamoufed OF tinse and gewgaws, cares little villa
poverty LUX beHcath, shine in confused
and useless hnefy: the latter Is studious ONLY of AZ
elegant painness, OF the becoming aud the good I'M,
toielgn plan reoces IN the shreds, the patches til,
clippings, the mu ationS, tbs trash, of any pursul
with long name; aud passes Common Seuse ant
Taste disda,ntully by. The banished one, wheel
we would revive, regards Science as of small ac
count Tor womcn-GrSi, because little applicable Il
their occupations; secondly, because always taught
tncln linefecly Wrdty, because Hike all other falls
knoWledge) II vtatcs, Instead OF improving, both the
| L Understanding and the Taste: t0urihlu, because
even AZ TO its only purpose, Display, it render.
woman. III. grown Society, ridiculous, instead oil
pleasing: so that, being useless in itself being
slightly taught. and being laughed at whenever dis
played, IT Is soon totally ehced from the mind eav
Ing II as blank aud barren as II these unhappy pain,
had never been taken.
Fmay-to state precisely the comparative result.
OF the two systems-hc Is admirable for ma.
king marvellous School girls, who Will never be an,
thing better, IN either mind or manners the prodI
gIeS OF a scene. fit only for breeding Actresses
Public Examination creatures that have learnt So
much as to be ignorant OF every thing. The othc,
system content to produce Children far less ANA
ENG, III order that II may form something that shall
upen into the wenorned, but modest woman. fiji
lor the Household, fit for Society, fit for the serious
duties OF life, and capable of adjoining It's leisure
SO much OF the Principals life has been passed
abroad, that he may be parloncd if out Of a numbe,
OF like testimonies he publish the following
From the Governor of =. Carolina
EXECUTIVE OFFICE, }
COLUMBIA, S. CAROLINA, Dec. goth, 1886 {
! My dear Sir:
nave Just leaned, with great regret that Won are
about to quit our town and State by which a per-
sonai deprivation to your friends will ensue and the
State lament the loss of those hieh literary ,,,,;,
ments, that you have exered among u.s. for some
years past. You may do better: trust sincerely
you will. Your distinguished literary taste, wher
ever called into requisiton, cannot but secue Won =
position both agreeable and profitable Accent nv
best wishes tor your prosperity and happiness With
l n y IDI