Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, W.T. [i.e. Wis.]) 1843-1844, 1844-02-24
DON'T NEGLECT TO EDUCATE
YOUR CHILDREN.

There is not western settlement, ho"e'ei
spatcely inhabited. or family, however re-
mote from neighborhoOd or neighbor, from
school or The possibility Of supporting one,
ina, is beg ond The reach Of education and the
thousand blessings which accompany II. An IN
correct, fatally incorrect notion has gone a.
broad and is still prevalent, throughout The entire
community ofthe West, that education is
solely identified with a schoolhouse and
school teacher. However DESTROYS parent
may feel for the education of his child, he new
er thinks beyond these means for the accom-.
plishmen. OF his object Many parents, per.
feclly competent to The education of their chill.
dren, arc lulIed into a slate Of apathy upon this
subject, merely because their remoteness from ,
a school. house precludes ,be ordinary means
of acquiring the rudimenls Of an educaion.--
They look forth languidly TO The time when
their neiohborhood shall include a number re-
onis,e 10 the supper of school, and consider
their whole duty to their offspring, discharged
in The lazy hope that The tuiare viii Improve.
They now their children are growing up 10 re-
sponsible ages, that every year they advance IN
ignorance gathers round them increasing dark
ness, and i, so far upon the road to vice, II
may be TO :uin, and that OF al countries upon
earth. no situation in life is half SO degraded
and revolving as that occupied by the citizen
oil the United States who can neither read nor
,cr!ie-- SovIeign Who cannot write lis name,
or read the vote which constitutes his pass.
port sovereignty and Which is perhaps abou! 10
decide measures Of the utmost national impor-
lance. We would no, DO understood 10 Tidi-
cule the man whom hard necesi y or pc culiar
situation and circumstances has deprived of
The choicest treasure OF life. Blu, We blame
and deeply blame that parent who does not,
in tho absence Of school house. CONVEX, his
own Preside into place of instruction. We
have have heard parents lamen,ing bitterly
over the nisforlunes OF by-situation. which
compelled them 10 rear their children 10 utter
ignorance Of books. when one hour Of the ma
ny which they daily ided and loiiered away,
would have fully Supplied the deficiency and
remaved all cause Of complaint. We are not
half SO mucn surprised a, the great number of
children 10 this part OF the West that are
grow ng up to maturity 10 perfect ignorance.
as we at the very rare instances OF M
sruc,ion at home. And we know not how TO
accous, for this objectionable neglect Of pa
rents, unless i, be the wan, Of more extended
habit of thinking, which ind uces people 10 al
ways arrive a, the same end by precisely the
same means. Teaching by The freside. iu-
stead of being doubtful or excepiiouable sys.
tenn. is one connected with many valuable ad-
vaniages over any other mode, and has been
approved and strongly Recommended BY all
who have tested it. School books, unlike
those Of twenty years ago, which seemingly
commenced upon ,qe belief ,ha! the pupil was
as far advanced as The author, are now sim.
plihed and admirably adapted TO the capaci.
~ Of children. in every degree OF advance
meni. A,home the child is free from the
con,asion Of vice and disease so psesalent at
many, perhaps most dessTict schools. The
paren, can govern without resort 10 any ex.
iraordinary means of enforcing his rules
not being called upon, like the teacher Of q
district school. to equalize a variety Of habits
and eeneralize opposite traits of character and
disposition. Very young children are no,
hushed into q silence and inacion ofmany sue.
cessive hours. ., The expense physical health
I'D .iror NJ Ennuys hatgav ~,
ula,e The diligence and excite the ambition of
child than he who has studied lis earliest
manifestations Of temper and disposition, and
no one can feel SO high an interes, in its I'm.
provenen. as he whose highest interest is the
eucalion Of that child. The mos, rapid advance
that we have ever witnessed was the result of
hresde teaching; and why should il not be so,
Why should VIC not look to the same spo, for /
the basis Of thorough and finished education,
SIS well as for the foundation of those prejudi-
ocs and opinions which cling to Us through
life aud are only mastered by death.
The advantages OF education are 100 gener-
81 aeknow ,dge AID We hope TOO deeply Eel,
10 need any recc ommend from US. Il is
principle dear TO every one. to whom anything.
either Of This world the next, Is or can be dear.
|, eoniemp'a'es truth and happiness in their
most comprehensive spheres thus rendering
hun who causelessly fails TO bessow II upon
his offspring, an enemy to both and a traitor
10 them. IL our Government has anything to
hnas, oEer other and older forms. il owes iha,
Superiority to the diffusion of knowledge. and