New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-12-16
SYSTEM of Educarion in association.


O'Clock Members requested to be puncaa ia their
attendance.
System Of Education in Association.
Seventh Artice.l
There will be in Association variety of Grades
or Ranks in 1ndustry,-such as Candidates for Adj
mission Practiciaas, Experts, besides Officers
Children in Association will have taste for dece-
rations, titles, &c; child three years old, who
has received aprimary initiation into Industry, may
possess various titles or distinctons,-suc as Ex
pert in one Group, Practician in another, with or
naments indicative of all these functions.
The desire of obtaining these distinctions, a, we'll
as of being admitted to the lower, middle and higher
divisions of each Glass or Age, will be powerful
stinluant to children. The young age being but
little taken up by pecunary interests, and not at
all by love, is alone occupied with its rivalres and
little objects of ambition; every child is inpatient
to rise from grade to grade, and from age to age,
and would anticipate the period of promotion, if it
were not restrained by strict examinations. Each
order OF children leaves the candidate the choice
of the branches of Industry in which it wishes to
be exanined-for it is Of but little consequence
what Group it joins. The child has only to give
proofs of capacity in 4 certain number of Groups,
which, in receiving it as member, certify as to
its skill and requirements. The testimonials of u
Group are based upon practical examinations, and
no favor can obtain them, as the child must exc
cute, with skill, the branches of work in which it
is examined. The Groups of Children, who are
animated by strong cooperative pride, would not
admit candidate who might expose them to criti-
csm their rivalres with neighboring Associations.
Up to the age OF nine years, examinations will be
directed moro to the material than to the intellect
uai, and after nine years, to the intellectual
than to the material, which at that age is nearly
developed In early age, the first object is to Sc
cure the complete action of the corporeal functions
and the simultaneous development of all the organs
When children of the class of the Learners (from
three to four and half apply for admission to the
mex, higher age, from four and half six,) they
will first have to 60 through an examination as to
the performance of certain number of Industrial
functions like the following:
Lighting ard covering fire with intelligence end
dextery; Harvesting dog. and driving little wagons;
performance of part in the little bands music &c
They must also have testimonials of being
Experts in five Groups, and Practcians in as many
others.
And give proof Of corporal dexteri!y BY going
through exercises of different parts of the body,
for example:
J.. One Of The right and left hand and arm.
,. One Of the right and left foot and leg.
3. One of the four members.
They will, in addition, be examined upon
scientific problem, on the first of the three pri-
mary attributes of the Diyini,y,-Eeonomy Of
Means which is the most Ineligible to children
of this age.
The judges are chosen always among the class
to which the child wishes to obtain admission;
some experienced teachers are present as advisers.
The different classes of children, even the young
est are full of corporate pride and ambition, and
would not admit an awkward candidate he would
be put off from moath to month, and from exami-
nation to examination. Children are strict Judges
as to industrial skill.
We have avoided all arbitrary dictation as to the
sentiments and opinions to be developed in early
age Moralist would wish to inculcate in the
child a love oftruth and contempt for riches; a
Political Economist on the contrary, love of COM
MERGE and gain, which in ou Societies are insepa-
rable from fraud and deceit. We shall no. incur
the risk of falling into all these contradictions to
ascertain the true system of Education, we shall
have sure guide TO consult, which is Attraction
Where does Attraction tend
l. To Riches. 3. To Series.
.. To Groups. PRINCIPAL TO UNITY.
1t is upon these general impulses that n true
system of Education should be based.
Our present systems wish, first, TO instil in the
child principles of virtue and morality; whereas,
following the primary tendency of Attraction, the
child should first be directed to Compound
Riches,-that is:
To Corporal Dexterity and Health, which are the
source of Internal Riches.
To Productive Industry, which is the source OF E1
ternal Riches.
What connection now exists between health and
our schools, in which the child, imprisoned and
suffering with Geld, is tormented with the r,'dments
of Latin or of Grammar! His mind is harassed
and his body stunted. Our systems of Education,
consequently are opposed to Nature; for they vio-
late the primary requirements of Attraction which
tends to Compound RicAes,-that is, to Health, or
Internal Riches, and to Industry, the source of E-
ternal Riches.
Such are the two ends of the Education of Asso-
citation. Ii viii first initiate the child into, and In
duce it to exercise, various branches of Industry,
to deveope nethodically the different parts of It's
BODY to render itself sfu in all branches of work,
ard enable it to obtain, by this variety of occuPa-
tons the possession of the two sources of Riches