Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1840-04-24
rnE INFANrKNowLEpcE SYSTEM
BY MAN born OUT OF SEASON.


How soon--hcw soon they pass away"
Veryl There reas time when we had
children. The time is past, or fast passing
The BOYS are premature mockeries OF men-
The girls, something between doll and a
stunled wo,nnn. The schooImaslcr is abroad,
also the scbooImistress. besides tuiois and
governrsses.
Shortly after the children are weaned,
| they commence educating them While the
brain is yet in soft, pulpy state they load
II with heavy facts and bard names, to its
serious deirnent during the reminder of
It's mundane existence. The ancient Gre.
clan commenced with carrying a calf upon
mis- back lew hours every day, so that
when the calf gradually grew into bullock,
he carried the bullock with as much
ease as he had done the calL-Thls is
now The education principle. They lay
a few leaves Of CyclopmJia or Ency,
clopfeda on a child's tender BRAIN and keep
adding thereunlo day by day, expecting that
when he is man, he will carry the thirty
volumes with perfect ease, without consider
ing that in the attempt they may crush all
sap and freshness Out of that brain, render.
ing II as flat us u pancake, and dry as the
remainder ola biscuit
Now is this whoesome--is il natural 2
Is !: fair--is il huuiaue, that a child should
be cheated on, of his childhood, and sent 10
learn the use OF the globes before he has
learnt 10 play at marbles2 o. is il 10 be-
expected that this early forcing and ho,-bed
system can produce as hesllhy plants as il
they had been allowed to grow in the free
air and open sunshine2 Oh in place OF
sending child TO school three or four years,
LEI HIM enjoy three or four years more Of
healthy ignorance Curb not its young
freedom abriige not its FIRST holidays; cage
no, The pretty bird too SOON
! Change not the free air OF heaven for the
pent up atmosphere of the seminary; the
gentle murmur Of the winds for the dull
hum ofthe prison-housr. We were chill
dren ourselves once. Let us haven fellow
feeling for the young rogues. Lei kind
dame Nature nurse them few wears lon
ger. There will be lever rckelty limbs and
rickeliy inlrlle Is
| And does child learn nothing because
ii has not its primmer in its hand Certain
| ly il does Every hour Of its liu!e life il is
learning; it cannot help il. The flower
that blows. The sprnging grass, the wther-
ed leai, the running water, the BIRDS that
hop across its path and the thousand sights
OF the fields and wood, or even The squares
or suburbs Of city, cause il 10 think and
TO question. The wind as il blows, the
falling rain, the feecy snow, the sharp frost
making firm the unstable water. the thunder
peal, the sun that shines by day, and the
moon that steals into the dark sky BY night,
Ial md az, 4
young curiosity. Let il then have few
years of pleasant natural education before il
commences its painful artificial one Lei
il, as ST. Paul says when il is child. sand
in due and proper season, no doubt Of it, it
will put away childishthinesn
IL makes one sad to see iue little fellow
sent to study Euclid at lineage he should
be reading Robinson Crusoe; and equally
does man good TO see such a one enjoy
ing his young existence in an appropriate
manner Few there are who cannot enter
into the feeling so finally given in the very
beautiful lines OF an American poet, com.
mencing-- .,si Ia
"There's something in noble boy,
| brave, free-hearled, careless one,
With his unchecked, unbidden joy.
His dread Of books and love Of fun,
| And in bis clear and ready smile,
Unshaded by a thought Of guile,
And unrepressented by sadness Z.
Which brings me to my childhood back,
As il | lrod its very track,
And felt very gladness."
Then let the children have their play out.
-Nesc York Mirror. 1s
Adrice 10 Young Men-There is no
moral object so beautiful TO me as a consci-
enlious young u,an. watch him as do
a star in the heavens clouds may be before
him, but we know that his light is behind
them, and will beam again: the blaze oil
others popularity may outshine him, but
we know that though unseen, he illumes
his own true sphere He resisls temptation
not without a struggle, for that is not virtue;
but he does resist and conquer !; he bears
the sarcasms ofthe proaigale. Ssil sings him
for that is the trial Of virtue, but heals the
wound with bis own pure touch He heeds
not the watchword of fashion, If il leads TO
sin, the atheist who says not only in his
heart, but with his lips, there is no God ~
controls him not he sees the hand ola cIea-
ting God. and rejoices in it.
Woman is sheltered by fond arms and
loving counsel old age is protected by its
|experence, and manhood BY its strength,
but the young man stands amid the tempta-
Iiions OF iheworld. likea selfbalanced tower;
HAPPY he who seeks and gains the prop
land shelter of mortaiitv ah.r ~