The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1839-09-14
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The Educator is the title of publication
recently made in England under the sane
ton of the General Society Of Education,
and of which the object is TO devise the
best means of raising the social position Of
teachers From this work, the following
are extracts -
What Education iS.-Educaton does
not mean merely reading and writing, nor
any degree, however considerable, of more
intellectual instruction. 1t is, in It's largest
sense process which extends from the
commencement 10 the termination Of exIs-
teuce. A child comes into the world, and
once his education begins, Often at his
birth the seeds of disease or deformity are
sown in his constitution; and while he hangs
at his mothers breast, he is imbibing i'm
pressions which will remain with him
through life. During the first period of in
fancy, the physical frame expands and
strengthens, but its delicate structure is in
fuenced for good or evil by all surrounding
Observation-Disclosures, light, air, food
warmth. BY and by, the young being
within shows itself more. The senses
become quicker. The desires and affec-
tions assume more definite shape. Every
object Which gives a sensation, every desire
gratifed or denied, every action, word, or
look of affection or unkindness, has its
affect, sometimes slight and imperceptible,
sometimes obvious and. permanent,in build
ing up the human beings or rather i'll deter
mining the direction in which it will
shoot up and unfold itself Through
the different states of the infant, the child
the, the boy, the youth, the moral nature
on tho various circumstances of his condi
ton necessarily acting upon him-the
unhealihfulness of the air he breaihes; the
kind and the sulliciency of his food anC
clothing; the degree in which his physica
powers are exerted; the freedom with which
his sense are allowed or encouraged TO ex
!ercise themselves upon eternal objects
the extent 10 which faculties of remember.
ing. comparing, reasoning, are tasked; the
sounds and sights Of home, the moral ex
amples of parents; the discipline Of school
the nature and degree of studies, rewards
and punshments; the personal qualities o
his companions, the opinions and practices
of the society, juvenile and advanced, il
which he moves, and the character Of thu
pupIic institution under which he lives Tht
successive operation Of all these circumstan
ces upon a human being from his earlies
childhood, constitutes his education; an ed
ueation which does not terminate with th'
arrival of manhood, but continues through
iife-which is itself, upon the concuren
testimony Of revelation aud reasons, stat
of probation or education for subsequen
and more glorious existence.
Importance Of Physical Education'-
The influence of the physical frame uPo'
the intllect, morals, and happiness of hu
man being, is now universally admitted
Perhaps the extent of the subject is exam
ined. The train of thought &c feelings is pc
petually affected by the occurrence of sen
satlons arising from the state of our eterna
orqans. The connection ofhigh mental ex
element with the physical system is obvi
Gus enough, when the latter is under in