Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1838-09-13
THE OU7'ysER.v Y.ySTITITIO.S'
OF EDUCATION.

"A (ncar Liberty, Val WIS opened IN November !
last, and now fitted up and organized, under COED
corps OF Instructors.
It's plan has been in pant, laid before the public.
But .iethods, once the only ones known among eur
people, have now 5 completely sunk under the in !
yasions of system of captrap, that il is necessary
both to explain and to yindicate them. In such as
these however, the modest but stately atrons, that
adorned the South IN better days, nuised, be- |,
fore vet Short Methods had come in. the erudi,e
persons who now bring us their of Education.
had iorsaen the kindred but more innocent trade OF
Tin pans and w ooden-nutmegs.
Instead OF Methods foreign TO our manners, our
feelings and opinions, aim 10 revive system,
domestic and home bred, that shall shun alike fall
lacious instruction and alien instructors We
teach then, Grst Indispensable The solid parts OF
an English Educaton-thngs winch all the Sci
ences in the Encyclopedia cannot make ii less than
foolish not to know completely We labour TO tram
and the Mind, before attempting TO decorate IT,
The first and principal points are, To read correctly
aud expressyely To write currently; To acquire
the practical art oil Numbers To master that most
noble and useful branch Of knowledge, History and
To obtain familiarity with What called Polite
Letters in general. These are, III the prevailing sys-
tenn sill ghted IN order TO hurry forward the scholar TO
the shewy Nothlngs OF pretended Sciences.
Propriety OF Speech lmpar. not by Gfammais
and Dictionaries, but by daily habit, carefully Gu
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
j III Afitllt1tlIC, is necessary III
every condition of life, receives strict attention.
/ Neetle work, Cookery, and the other Household
Arts ale practsed, according as the Pupils aye pur-
nits The Manners, the Temper, and the Con-
duct are watched and formed with the utmost soll-
citude as things which Happiness, Respectfully,
and the power ofPlcasng dependiar more than
on Wit, Learning the Accomplishments Gen
1 tcness OF demcanour an attachment 10 Order, care
OF the Secmly, taste Tor knowledge needing
compusion, and the Sense and the Love OF whatever
in Elegant Studies, inspires refined and elevated Sen
tlments are with us, the main thought OF Education.
1t is not necessary that all women be learned
complished it's necessary that all women be anlla-
bic.
History, as the great key to knowledge Of hui
man affairs, the School of whatever is wise or
goods taught with particular care 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
oil the Original Writer'S OF each nation 1t is accom-
panied with its necessary elucdatlons; Geography,
the History of Literature and Art; aud that OF In
stitutons Manners, and Opinions.
foreign Tongue (the French,) is begun, soon
the pupil can read English well. II is made the
common language OF the House; and is used part
~ for its sake, but principally the means OF
arriving knowledge OF Grammar, unattanablc
without the study of dialect besides our
own. French is also employed as the vehicle Of
part olthe 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 unielt, Misunderstood, or
amassed only for display. Regarding Modcsty as
the first law of Female Excellence, and a love OF
knowledge rs the only sound principle on which to
found II, plan avoids every thing connected with
Exhibition, and even thestimulants oil Emulation, as
usually brought to act.
The Discipline is careful, but gentle-copying as
far possible that OF a well-orlered Domestic Edu-
cation. 10 this, indeed the whole Plan endeavours
to conform ITSELF as the purcs, the most efficient
and capable Of the best results whether to the
Morals, the Manners, OF the Mind.
To compare it with the adverse systematic one
grasping at every thing must, for that reason, fail
every thing the other, selecting those better parts
Of knowledge, which fit the Sex and are attainabe in
its ordinary time of study, teaches these both well
and modesty. That system desires little, but the
ostentation OF knowedge-ouls, nothing but its re
atty. That seeks to adorn the outside of the Mind ,
tins, to inform and inveorate 1t within. The former:
enamOured of tlnsel and eewgaws, cares little what
poverty may Turk beneath SO ii shine in confused
and useless finely: the latter studious only of an
elegant planDess, OF the becoming and the good The
foreign plan rejOlccs the shrcds the PAT chcs the
clippings, the mutations the trash of any pursuit
with long name; and passes Common Sense aud
Taste disdanlully by. The banlshed one, winch
we would revive, regards Science Of small ac-
count Tor womcn-frst, because little applicable 10
their occupations secondly, because ALWAYS taught
them lmpercctly Mirdiy because (Ike all other false
knowledge vltates, instead OF improving both the
Understanding and the Taste t1urt4ty because
even as to its only purpose, Display, it renders
woman. in grown Society, ridiculous, instead OF
pleasing: SO that, being useless in ITSELF being
slightly taught, and being laughed at whenever dis
played, it is totally etiaccd from the mind eav
ing as blank aud as barren II these unhappy pains
had nev er been taken.
Finally-to state precisely the comparative results
OF the two systems-the Is admirable for ma
king marvellous School girls, who will never be any
thlng better IN either mind or manners the prodi
gies OF a scene, fit only for breeding Actresses-a
y ma titan. 1fttrn II,