Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1838-11-01
THE SOUTHERN. X.s,S7ITUTIO.t'
OF EDUCATION.

people, have now completely sunk under the in
yasons of system of clap-rap. that II is necessary
both 10 explain and To yindcate them. In such as
these however, the modest but stately marons, that
adorned the South in better days, were nuised be-
fore yet Short Methods had come in, or the erudite
persons who bring us their wares OF Education,
had orsaken the kindred, but more innocent trade of
Tin-pans and w ooden-nutmegs.
Instead OF Methods foreign 10 our manners our
feelings and opinions, aim TO revive system,
domestic and home bred, that shall shun ALIKE fall
Iacous instruction and alien instructors. We
teach then, first indispensable, the solid parts oil
an English Educaton-thngs which all the Sci
ences in the Encyclopedia cannot make 1t less than
foolish not TO know completely. We labour 10 train
aud store the Mind, before attempting to decorate it.
The first and principal points are To read correctly
and expressyey To write currently To acquire
the 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
Lettets in general. These in the prevailing sys-
tenn, sighted in order to hurryiorward the sehoarto
the shewy Nothings Of pretended Sciences.
Proprlety Of Speech we impart. not by Grammats
and Dictionaries, but by daily habit, carefully
forced. Composition is taught, not by rules and
FORMS but by the varied and progressive practice OF
several Studies, in which the daily examinations are
| conducted in writing. Arithmetic, as necessary in
every condition of life, receives strict attention.
Needle-work, Cookery, and the other Household
Arts are practised, according the Pupils age pur-
duct watched and formed with the utmost soil
ctude, as things which Happiness, Responsibility,
and even the power ofPeasing depend far more than
on Wit, Learning, or the Accomplishments. Gen
tleness OF demeanour, an attachment TO Order
of the Seemy, taste for knowledge needing
compulsion, and the Sense and the Love of whatever
in Elegant Studies inspires refined and elevated Sen
timents are, with the main thought of Education.
1t is not necessary that all women be learned
complishcd il is necessary that all women be ama-
BILE.
History, as the great key to knowledge of hui
man affairs, the School of whatever is wise
goods taught with particular not by
barren Compends, COMPRISING the facts till every
thing truly instructive is squeezed out OF them but
by Narrative. lively and detailed. far possible that
OF the Original Writers OF each nation. Ii is accom-
panied with its necessary calculations; Geography
the History of Literature and Art and that of In
stutions, Manners, and Opinions.
! a foreign Tongue (the 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 the of
! arriving at a knowledge of Grammar, unattanable
without the study of dialect besides our
own. French is also employed as the vehicle
part of the Historical Studies and those of Taste.
The Course, ii will be perceived is far
Literary than Scientific one. Its spirit is not that
of idly heaped-up things, uniet Misunderstood, or
amassed only for display. Regarding Modesty as
the first law of Female Excellence, and love of
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found it, plan avoids every thing connected with
| Exhibition, and even the slmulants of Emulation as
usually broug ht to
The Discipline is careful, but gene-copying, as
far possible, that of well-ordered Domestic Edu-
cation. To this, indeed, the whole Plan endeayours
to conform itself, the purest, the efficient,
and capable of the best results. whether to the
| Morals, the Manners, or the Mind.
To compare it with the adverse systematic one.
grasping every thing must for that reason, fail in
every thing the other selecting those better parts
of knowledge, which fit the Sex and attainable in
its ordinary time of study, teaches these both well
and modesty. That system desires little, but the
ostentaton of Know ledge-ours, nothing but lis re
atty. That seeks TO adorn the outside of the Mind
this, to inform aud inyeorate it within The former:
enamoured of tlnsel and gewgaws little wha;
poverty may Turk beneath so shine in confused
and useless hnery: the latter is sudous only of an
elegant painness, oil the becoming and the good The
foreign plan reJoces in the shreds, the patches, the
clippings the mutations, the trash, of any pursuit
with long name and passes Common Sense and
Taste disdanfully by. The banished one, winch
we would revive, regards Science as of small ac-
count tor womcn-hrSt. because little applicable TO
their occupations; Secondty because always taught
them imperectly Mrdiy, because hke all other false
knowledgc)t ytates, Instead of improving, both the
Understanding and the Taste !: tourthly because
even as to its only purpose, Display, it renders
woman. in grown Society, ridiculous, instead Of
pleasing: that, being useless in itself, being
slightly taught, and being laughed at whenever dis
played, it is totally eliaced from the mind eay
ing blank and barren as if these unhappy pans
had never been taken
Finally-to state precisely the comparative results
of the two systems-the 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-a
Public Examination creatures that have learnt so
much as to be ignorant OF every thing. The other
systemis content to produce Children far less ANA
ling in order that it may form something that shall
rpen into the weinormed, but modest woman, fit
for the Household, fit for Society fit for the serious
duties of lie and capable of adjoining its leisure.
SO much ofthe Principals life has been passed
abroad, that he may be pardoncd if of number |
OF like testimonies, he publish the following.
From the Governor of -. Carolina.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE, }
COLUMBIA, S. CAROLINA, Dec. goth, 1886. |
NJ dear Sir
have just learned, with great regret that YOU are |
about to quit our town and State by which a per
sonal deprivation to your friends will ensue and the
State lament the loss of those high literary attain
ments that you have eXerted among u.s. for some
years past. You may do better: | trust sincerely |
you will. our distinguished literary TASTE wher !
ever called INTO requistion, cannot but secure you a
position both agreeable and profitable. Accept my
best wishes tor your prosperity and happiness. With
great regard and esteem, p. NJ. BUTLER.
From Dr. Thomas Cooper, late Pres. f,he g. Car
OHM College.
Mr.. Edward johnston, Librarian of the S. Caro-
Ina College, being about to quit Columbia, | desire
TO say
That, as literary man, acquainted with books IN
the various departments of Literature generally.
aud as faithful and diligent officer, II will be
diitic u fill his place with any one eou,Ilv ,o