New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-09-30

| is here for wonaps mind and womans labor will
always be filed. few have usurped the martial
province but these must always be few; the nature
of woman is opposed TO war. 1t is natural enough
to see Female Physicians, and we believe thai,
the lace cap end work bag as much at home here
as the wig and gold headed cane. In the priesthood
they have from all time shared Iess-in
many eras more than at the present We believe
there has been no female lawyer, and probably will
be none. The pen, many Of the fine arts they have
made their own, and, in the refined countries Of
the world. writers, a. musicians, as painters, as
actors women occupy as advantageous ground a.
men Writing and music may be esteemed profes
sions for them more than any other.
But there are two others where the demand must
invariably be immense, and for which they natu
rally better fitted than men, for which we should
like to them better prepared and better reward
ed than they are These the profession OF nurse
to the sick and OF teacher. The first OF these pro
fessons we have warmly desired to see dignited
Ii is q noble one now most I'm Justly regarded in the
light Of mental service. Ii is one which no mental,
no servile nature can fifty occupy. We were re-
ioiced when an intelligent lady of Massachusetts
made the refined heroine OF little romance select
that calling This lady Mrs. George Lee has look
cd on society with unusual largeness OF spirit and
healthiness of temper. She is well acquainted with
the world of conventions but sees beneath II the
world of nature, She is a generous writer and IN
pretending as the generous are wont TO be. We do
not recall the name of the tale, but the circumstance
above mentioned marks lis temper. We hope to
see the time when the refined and cultivated will
choose this profession and learn it, not only through
experience under the direction of the doctor but by
acquaning themselves with the laws of matter and
Of mind, so that all they do shall be intelligently
done, and afford them the means Of developing in
tegence az well the nobler, tenderer feelings OF
humanity for even the last part Of the benefit they
cannot receive if their work be done in selfish or
mcrcenary spirit
The other profession is that OF teacher. for which
women are peculiarly adapted by their nature supe
riority in tact, quckness of sympathy, gentleness,
patience, and clear and animated manner in nara
ton or description To form good teacher should
be added TO this sincere modesty combined with
frmness, liberal views with power and will 10 lib
eraze them still further, good method and habits
of exact and thorough investigation. In the two
there are now many shining examples TO prove that
if they are immethodica and superficial as teachers
it is because il is the custom to teach them, and
that when aware of these faults they and will
correct them.
The profession is Of itself an excellent for the
improvement of the teacher during that interim be
tween youth and maturity when the mind needs
testing, temperng, and TO review and rearrange the
/ knowledge ii has acquired The natural method
of doing this for ones self is TO attempt teaching
others those years also are the bes, of the prac-
tcal teacher The teacher should be n ar the
pupil both in years and feengs-no oracle bat the
elder brother sister OF the pupil. More expert.
ence and years form the lecturer and the director OF
studies bu, njure the powers as TO familiar teaching.
These are Just the years OF leisure III the lives even
of those women who enter the domestic sphere
and this calling most of all compatible with con
slant progress as to qualifications for that.
Viewing the matter thus il may well be seen that
we should hail with JOY the assurance that sixty
thous female teachers wanted, and more like
ly to be, and that plan is projected which looks
wise liberal and generous TO afford the means oil
those whose hearts answer to this high calling obey
ing their dictates.
The plan is to have Cincinnati for central point,
where teachers shall be for short time received
examined and prepared for their duties. By mutual
agreement and cooperation of the various sects
funds are be raised and teachers provided accord
ing TO the wants and tendencies of the various loca
tons now destitute What is TO be done for them
centrally is for suitable persons 10 examine INTO their
various kinds of fitness communicate some general
views whose value has been tested, and counsel
adapted 10 the difficulties and adv antagcs OF their
new positions The Central Committee are TO have
the charge of raising funds and finding teachers and
places where teachers wanted.
The passage of thoughts, teachers and funds will
be from East to West, the course of sunlight upon
this earth
The plan is offered as the most extensive and
plant means of doing good and preventing Ill 10
this nation, by means of national education, whose
normal school shall have an invariabe object In the
search after truth and the diffusion OF the means OF
knowledge, while its form shall be plastic according
10 the wants of the time. This normal school prom
ises to have good effects for it proposes worthy aims
through simple means and the motive for It's forma
ton and support seems to be disinteresled phiian'
thropy.
Ii promises to eschew the bitter spirit OF secIa
ranism and proselytism. else we, for one party
could have nothing to do with IL Men. no doubt
have been oftentimes kept from absolute famine oy
the whea, with which such tares are mingled but
we believe the time is come when purer and more
generous food is to be offered 10 the people at large
We believe the aim Of all education 10 be TO rouse
the mind TO action show it the means OF discipline
and of information then leave 1t free with God Con
science. and the love Of Truth for It's suardanS ana
teachers Wo be to those who sacrifice these aims
OF universal and eternal valne the propagation o
a set of opinions Blu, on this subject we can &c
cept such doctrine as is offered by Kew. OaNli
Stowe, one OF the committee, in the following pas
sage:
In judcious practice am persuaded there WI SCI
dom be any very great difficulty, especially there %
excited In the community anything IKE whoe-hes'eu
honesty and emil htcned sincerity IN the cause o Puo'
instruction. - -
1T is all right for people to suit their own taste so
convictions in respect sect and by lar means anu
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