New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-11-23
SYSTEM of Education i'm Association
Second Article.)
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Early Infancy.
As perfect liberty in all relations will exist II
Association, the mother can, if she wish, have her
child in her own apartments or she take part
with the Series of Nurses and be with it constantly
in the large Nurseries, in which infinitely more care
can be bestowed upon it, than could be in her own
rooms.
A Nurse, or person who has the care and super
vision of Children in Association. has not, like
hired Nurses at present, to be the entire day IN
the Nursery. She has only to attend when her
Group is on duty. This service would become
quently, will only be required be in attendance
one day out OF three, and during the two days OF
interval, they will not have to occupy themselves
with children, but take part in the occupations
of the other Series TO which they belong.
A Nurse at present is scolded and found fault
with by those who pay her for this most slavish of
duties in the Combined Order on the contrary,
she will be constantly complimented by mothers,
who come TO see or suckle their infants, and who
admire the fine condition of the mats, the cradles
and the children.
The Nurses and Assistant Nurses receive not
only large dividend out of the general product,
but they are paid also by high honors; they arc
considered as common mothers, and hold high
rank in all festivities. Their profession secures
rapid promotion and the enjoyment of important
social privileges and distinctions. The combina-
ton of all these inducements is necessary to or
ganze Series with passion for work so LITTLE
attractive in itself.
Society, with its present simple and defective
methods, provides only cradle for the child as a
place of repose: Association, the system of which
is compound, furnishes the Child, in addition to
the cradle, an elastic mat. The mats are sus-
pended upon frames about four feet high; the
children can lie and roll upon them, but are sepa-
rated from each other by silken nets. These nets
do not prevent them from moving freely, and from
seeing the other Children around them, whom they
can approach but not touch The Nursery is kept
sufficiently warm to admit of the Child being lightly
dressed and to dispense with the heavy swadling
clothes now used.
In Association, the most opulent Mother would
never think of bringing up her Child isolatcdly IN
her own apartments. 1t would not receive one
quarter of the care which would be bestowed upon
it in the large Nurseries; for with every imaginable
expense, Series ofinteligent Nurses, whose charac
tiers were adapted to those of the Children, with a
passion for their occupation could not be procured
The richest Mother, with every outlay, could not
have Nursery of SO uniform a temperature, with
,La co,,,ran,, &c o,bar rl;Idrer
of the same character, who would mutually divert
and auuse each other. 1t is particularly in the
Education of early infancy that we shall see how
much better the Children of the poorest Man in
Association will be educated, than can be those OF
the richest Potentale in Civilization.
Every thing at present. Is so arranged as to make
an infant the torment of an entire house, and at
the same time torment to itself The Child de-
sires instinctively the arrangements and comforts
which it would find in the Nurseries of Phalnnx,
and for want of them, it dstracts, by its cries,
parents, servants and neighbors, while 1t Injuries
it's own health.
We will now speak of the first germs OF Intel
lectual Education which are given in Association
10 the Child during the first and second years ct
its age This primary Education, the most wealthy
Classes cannot in Civilization give to the Children
great expense is often incurred, and with no other
result than TO pervert the character of the Child,
rnisdirect its faculties, and to injure its health.
At the age of six months-a period at which IN
Civilization not the least instruction is given TO
Childrcn-the greatest care will be taken in Asso-
citation to develope and refine their senses, aud to
give them corporal dexterity; the exclusive use
of one hand or arm, which renders the other
awkward and in part useless, will for example be
avoided. A correct ear for music will also be
given to Children by singing trios and quartettes
three or four times day in the Nurseries, and by
teaching those who are old enough, to march TO
the sound of instruments. Methods will also be
employed to add acuteness of hearing to correct
ness of ear, and to give to the Child delicacy of
hearing.
The profession Of Nurse, consequently, will re-
auire numerous qualifications, and will not merely
consist as at present. in singing songs out OF tune,
aud in frightening Children with ghost stories to
keep them quiet. The Nurses will study the
means Of preventing their cries, as calmness Is
necessary to their health.
The noise of infants, which is such an annoy
ance at present, will be very much diminished In
the Nurseries of an Association. Those OF the
third elass-tbe Intractable-wi be less turou-
lent, less noisy. than at present the other TWO
classes-the Quiet and the Restless. What means
will be employed to pacify them7 Will the pas
sions Of these little creatures be changed Ger
tainy not: they will be fally developed, but d.
versions and amusements will be procured Tor
them by placing them in the company OF Children
of sympathetic characters. Tue most NOISY VIII
selves. They will silence each other BY their
screams, something like those bragadocios who
become perfectly mild and abandon their over.
hear;nn conduct when they are In the COMPANY OF