Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1838-11-22
TIE SOUTEFEFs.y' Es.sTETs'TEO.7'
OF EDUCATION.

last aud IS now fitted up aud gauze1 under COED
corps OF Instructors.
lis plan has been, in part, laid before the public.
But .iethods once the only ones known among our
people have now so completely sunk under the IL.
yasIons of A system OF clap-taP, TINT II IS ne cssary
both 10 explain and 10 yndlc"ie tnem. In such as
these however the modest but stately NATIONS, that
adorned the South IN better days we're nnIsed, be
fore yet Short Methods had come in, or the erudue
persons who now bring us their wares oi Education,
had lorsaken the kindred but mare innocent tiaue ol
Tn pans and Wooden nutbegs.
Instead OF Methods foreign 10 our manners our
feelings and opinions, we aImto revive system
domestic and home bred thai shall shun alike TAI
laelous instruction aud aen instructors. we
teach then. first, Indispensable, The soiId paris OF
an English EducatIon-thmgs winch all the SCI
ences in the Encyclopedia cannot make II less tlan
foolish not to know completely. We labour to ualn
and the Mind, before attempting TO decorate H.
The first and principal points are To read correctly
aud expressively 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 Iollte
Lcttefs in general. These are, in the prevailing sys
tenn lighted order TO hurry forward the scholar TO
the shcwy Nolhugs OF pretended Sciences.
Property of Speech we lmpaft. mol BY Glammais
aud Dictionaries, but BY daily habit, carefully
forced. Composition is taught, not by rules and
forms, but by the varied aud progressive practice OF
several Studies, in which the duly examinations are
conducted in writing. Arithmetic, rs necessary in
every condition OF lie receives strict attention.
Neerle-woIk, Cookery, and the other Household
Ats me practiscd, according the Pupils age pur
ms. The Manners, the Temper, aud the Con
duet watched and formed with the utmost soil
citude, as things winch Happiness. Respectfully,
and even the power of Pleasing depend ian than
| on Wit, Leaning, OF tie Accomplishments Gen
tleness OF dcmeanour, attachment TO Order,
OF the Scemy, a taste ior knowledge needing
compulson, and the Sense and the Love OF whatever
In, lnu rpfl IaIp cd
tmenls, are, with Us, the main thought oil EducaIun
1t is not necessary that all women be learned
compIlshcd il is necessary that all women be amt
BILE
History, the great key to knowledge of hui
nan affairs. the School oil whatever wise or
goods taught with particular carc : not by
barren Compends. COMPRISING the iatts Till every
thing truly instructive IS squeezed out OF them but
by Narrative, lively and detailed tards possible that
oil the Original Writers OF each nation. 1t is accom-
panied with It's necessary calculations; Geography,
the History of Literature and Art; aud that OF In
situations, Manners, and Opinions.
\ foreign Tongue (lhe French) is begun. rs soon
as The pupil read English we'll. II Is made the
common language OF the House; and used, pant
! " for its sake, but principally the means Of
arriving u, a knowledge OF Grammar, uoattaiuablc
without the study Of some dialect besides our
own. French Is also employed As the vehicle
part OF the Historical Studies and those OF TNste
The Course, 1t will be perceived, Is far mote a
Literary lllil one Its SiII IS MOI llld
oil IDLY heaprd-up things, unlet Misunderstood, or
amassed only for display. Regarding Modcsty as
the first law Of Female Excellence. and Il love of
knowledge as theony sound principle on which to
found 1t, our plan avoids every thing connected with
Exhibition, and even the smuants OF Emulation. as
usually brought to act
The Discipline IS careful but geutlc-copying, as
far possible, that OF a we-oldered Domestic Edu-
cation. TO tins, indeed, the whole Plan rudeavuurs
to conform itself rs the pnfest, the most efficient,
and capable f the best results. whether as to the
Morals, the Manners the Mind.
To compare it with the adverse systematic one
graspng At every thing, must, for that reason, fail IN
every thing the other, selecting those better parts
81 knowledge. winch iii the Sex aud aItauabe IN
It's ordinary tune Of study. teaches these both well
and mudeslly. That system desires little but the
ostentatlon OF acknowledgements, nothing but its re
aIity. That seeks 10 adurn the outside OF the VI ud ,
this, to inform and nvlgorae within. he lormei
enamoured of tlnsel and gewgaws, cares httle what
poverty may Turk beneath, can SHINE confused
and usee,s fneIy: the latter stutilous only Of an
elegant plainness, OF the becoming and the good The
toteIgn plan reoces IN the slreds, the patches the
clippings, the mutations, the trash, OF any pursuit
with a long name and passes Common Sense and
/ Taste dsdainlully bv The banshed one. which
we would revive, regards Science of small ac-
count for woncn-frat, because little applicable To
their occupations; Secondlg. because ALWAYS taught
them lmperectly Htriiy because (llhe all other false
hnowledge) 1t vtatcs, Instead OF improving, both he
Understanding and the Taste: foarthiY, because.
even as to its only purpose, Display, it renders
woman. in grown Society, ridiculous, instead ct
pleasing: so that, beng useless III Itself being
slightly taught, and being laughed at whenever dis
played, it is totally eaced from the mind leay-
Ing blank aud as barren if these unhappy palus
bad never been taken.
Finally state precisely the comparative results
OF the two Sy>tems-the one Is admirable for ma
king marvellous School girls, WHO viii never be any
Thing better, in either mind manners the prod
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