The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1838-08-30
Extract fsm = Use "a National Eiiraiian. 90
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| Extract iism = yse nn National Eiicaiian. &c
qaa'ed 10 the NrN Ys,k EeEi'w
. TnE BEST TEACHER OF a CHILD.
Who ran educate child. bui moihsr!
IT, perresnal change. il requires all tie
! iexIhihiy of the female rharserer Ia fol-
lew and each The infinite vaFieil,s through
wheel, il rasses. Ary "'her eye btc"mcs
slds'y IN aiiemPlingit. What bullheIrmale
lnaginailnn-iis vIEacily--si'sinlrrrsiea-
ness--pass:ng into an"lnrr being, sgL ss.ii
preserving all the pec"liaritirs 81 AZ "'Ea
-raa fully comprehend them. The e!:id
is fresh and Era@k-hales c0asira.nG and
hyporTisv-ltes on sympa,hy--is stl
love. Who ran ;hiak with IL. an! almost
in il-whn can understand il. through the
heart. that hrsi ii inserpreters--who can
satisfy the first want nf lis ynnng nature
like a mother! Bu; mothers are rs.
a,ways inspired. even By nature. They
require reflection, as well as instinct;
method, a. well rs siferiOl. How many
children are taught caprice by Kindness
---wesknrss BIZ indscisIoa! Rousseau
leaves all to nature; but parents cannot
linus abdlcaie their trust; they must moi be
lef, n nature as well as their children.
Where lirnness il not, there will be nO
projections. where love is not, protection
will not consul, the happiness ol lIr child.
What Yields. can Hos suPpnTi; eh:ld re-
quirrs bnlh love aud support. 1.-THE moth
er appears like another child---il she par
takes all vaclllsiIans Of her offspring. anw
should il respeci Ler---~ hat reason should
IL have tn believe hrs its mother! But
liranness shnull not Degenerate Into seEe-
riiy. nor anxiety into iIl.lemper. A child
Is much more prone To lnilisIlun Than To
fear. lie lives in you. feels IN you; what
h. finds in you. he reprulare' IN himself.
Hence nothing is indifferent. Looks and
" ards fall on these young natures with
the same face as actions do on that oil
others. They creep into Their insignia
lions; tliey ser.s there and from, Tor
years after. part 0i their reculleciions. and
very generallySon, their characters. This
is fact of infinite importance; IL Is the
key Of all early educ,iion. Feed your
child with sounds and sights Of sincerity
and fundness; breathe about him an al
mosphere Of sercniiy-.-'ce elaine mele dc
i0ie'---liis natural element; love him well.
dlnse him wisely. and yoa may dispose
Of him in all things even as you will. But
who can 60 this like mother! and what
mother 81 well as she who fee j. and
studies il for herself! Such mothers. II
is hoped, may yet be numerous. Though
NEITHER fashionables, nor managers nor
blue stockings; mothers in the high aud
holy sense OF The name. deeply penetrated
with their sacred calling, and pursuing
it ''in sinsleness and in simplcily--wi1h
energy aud with in,elligencc.--wiiha ssidu-
lily, but without iiget --wiIli dignity, but
without parade" 1t is ,!is domestic. this
fresiis Eiuca'ion--.lhis Education OF
truth and ioce---which has gwen the
greater portion Of its value Ia Scotch
Education: which transmits The talent and
virtue of the mother 10 the son, aud re-
etiges IN return from The son the tribute
Of las earliest and most durable affection.
Not 10 the EaIher-nOI 10 the chiid-bul
tn tie aged mother, the emigraut sends
back the first-frul Of his distant ex-
er.ions. ST. true il is wha. Pestalnzzi
says--''rhere ate no better elchets than
The house, and the fathers aud mothers
j love, and the daily Lab ira home, and all
the wants aud necessities Of life IL is
his domestic EdvcaIon, which Of all
/ Others, Is NEST wanting in all classes
under our present system. Without II
puJic Education may be good in an an
| feiieciud poin, of view; (hough even
that is diff n't.) in moral 1t must be
/ drferure, If not worse. The tendency
, of ,nntlern ipsuiu;iuns--.fond 1T masses,
! aud cooperation. and broad effects. AMI
suiidrn dispIay---is to weaken and limit
these holne.bred influences. Psop"r-
/ 10 tally greater ought To be our anxiety
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