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OF EDUCATION.
a II THE BEDFORD FEMALE


people, have now so completely sunk under tie in
yasions OF system OF captrap, that it is necessary
both explain and to vndicae them. In such AS
these, however, the modest but stately natrons that
adorned the South in better days, were nuised be-
fore yet Short Methods had come in, or the erudite
persons who now bring us their wares of Education
had lorsaen the kindred, but innocent trade of
Tn-pans and Wooden-nutmegs
Instead oil Methods foreign to our manners our
feelings and opinions aim to revive a system.
domestic and home bred, that shall siun alike fall
lacous instruction and alien instructors We
teach, then, FIRST Indispensable, the solid parts Of
an English Education-things which all the Sci
ences IN tue Encyclopedia cannot make il less than
foolish not 10 know completely. We labour to train
aud store tile Mind, before attempting 10 decorate it,
The first and principal points are, TO read Correctly
and expressyely To write currently To acquire
the practical ant of Numbers TO master that most
noble and useful branch Of knowledge, History and
To obtain some familiarity with what Is called Polite
Leltefs in general. These are, in the prevailing s,s-
tenn, lighted IN order 10 hurry forward the scholar
the shewy Nothings oil pretended Sciences.
Proprlety of Speech we impart. not by Grammals
and Dictionaries, but by daily habit carefully en-
forced. Composition is tau ght, not by set rules aud
forms, but by the varied and progressive practice OF
several Studies, in which the daily examinations arc
conducted in writing. Arithmetic as necessary III
every condition Of life, receives strict acntion.-
NeeLle-work Cookery, and the other Household
Arts practised, according as the Pupils age pur-
duct are watched and formed, with the utmost soil
citude, things which Happiness Respccta5ity
and even the power Of Pleasing depend far more than
on Wit, Learning, or tie Accomplishments. Gen.
tleness OF demcanour, attachment TO Order, care
OF the Seemly, a taste for knowledge needing no
compulsion, and the Sense aud the Love OF whatever
IN Elegant Studies inspires refined and elevated Sen
timents are, with us, the main thought OF Education
1t Is not Necessary HAT all women be learned or ac-
complished it is necessary that all women be anna
bic
History, as the great key to knowledge Of lu-
man affairs, the School OF whatever is wise or
goods taught with particular not by
barren Compcnds. comprising the facts ill every
thing truly instructive is squeezed out OF them but
by Narrative, lively and detailed far possible thai
| OF the Original Writers OF each nation. II is accom-
panied with its necessary fluctuations; Geography,
the History of Literature and Art aud that ii Iu
sttntlous, Manners, and Opinions.
\ foreign Tongue Ohe irench,) is begun, as soon
as the pupil read English we'll. 1t Is made the
common language Of the House; and is used, part
~ for its own sake, but principally the means Of
arriving at knowledge of Grammar, unattalnable
without the study of dialect besides our
own. French is also employed rs the vehicle Of
part ofthe Historical Studies and those OF Taste.
The Course, it will be perceived is far more a
Literary than Scientific Its spirit is not that
OF idly heaped-up things, unlelt, Misunderstood. or
amassed only for display. Regarding Modcsiy as
the first law of Female Excellence aud love OF
knowledge as the only sound principle on which TO
found H. our plan avoids every thing connected with
Exhibition, and even the stimulants of Enulation as
usually brought to
The Discipline is careful, but geule-copyng. as
lar possible that of well -ordered Domestic Edu-
cation. To this, indeed, the whole Plan eMdeavours
to conform itself as the puest the most efficient,
and capable If the best results, whether to the
! Morals, the Manners, or the Mind
To compare it with the adverse systematic one.
grasplng every thing must for that reason fail IN
/ lc hot
of knowledge, which fit the Sex and are altainable in
its Ordinary time of study, teaches these both well
and modestly. That system desires little but the
ostentation of Kuowedge-ours, nothing but its re
Atty That seeks TO adorn the outside of the Mind:
this, TO inform and inyeorate II within. The former
enamoured OF tInsel and gewgaws little what
poverty may lark beneath it can shine in confused
and useless hnety: the latter sudious only of an
elegant paiuness, OF the becoming and the good The
foreign plan relolces III the shreds, the patches the
clippings, the MUTATIONS, the trash of any pursuit
with long name aud passes Common Sense aud
Taste disdainiuy by. The banished one. winch
we would revive, regards Science of small
count for womcn-frSt because little applicable to
their occupations secondly. because always taught
them imperectly Mirtlly because Qike all other false
owedge) il vltates, instead OF improving, both the
Understanding and the Taste f0urtly, because
even as to lis only purpose, Display, it renders
woman. IN grown Society, ridiculous, instead of
pleasing: SO that, being useless in itself being
slightly taught aud being laughed at whenever dis
played, it is totally eifaced from the mind leav-
ing it blank aud barren as if these unhappy paus
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, III either mind or manners the prodi
gles OF scene. fit only for breeding Actresses--a
Pubic Examination creatures that have learnt so
much as to be ignorant OF every thing. The other
SYSTEMS content to produce Children far less anna
eng III order that ii may form something that shall
ipen into the well-informed, but modest woman fit
ior the Household, fl Tor Society, fit for the serious
duties of life, and capable of adjoining its leisure
So much ofthe Principals life has been passed
abroad, that he may be pardonod if out of number
oil like testimonies, he publish the following
From the Governor of y. 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
sonal deprivation 10 your friends will ensue and the
State lament the loss of those high literary attain
mens, mat yon have exerted among us, for some
years past. GU may do better: | trust sincerely
you "'ii' our distinguished literary TASTE wher
oetcai'eu INTO reqnsition, cannot but secure YOU
position both agreeable and profitable Accept nv
oest "isheS Tor your prosperity and happiness With
s'o"' regard ana esteem, p. NJ BUTLER.
FROM Dr. Thomas Cooper, late Pres of the = far
Mr.. Edward Johnston, Librarian of the s Caro-
,'pa C"'ege' BENG about to quit Columbia desire