Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-09-23

must conclude that education is not confined to
college walls.
you are born with certain faculties. What
ever tends to develope and improve these, is edu-
cation. Whatever trains your mental powers,
your affections, manners, and habits, is educa-
ton. Your education is not limited to any pc
Rod of your life, but is going on as long as you
live. Whatever prepares you to be a profitable
servant of God, and faithful disciple of Christ
whatever increases your reverence and love
OF your Maker-all that in the Scripture is call
ed nurture and admonlton of tire Lord is
part of your religious education
Whatever you do to promote your health, to
develope and improve the strength and powers
of body, is part ofyour physical education
What, slrP interrupted Mary Lewis, do you
mean running and Jumping rope and trundlng
hoops, and clambering over rocks; is that part
of educationl
4 certainly debut why do you laugh, my
dear chiIdr
Because, sir, never knew that education
meant anything so pleasant as that. | wish my
mother could hear you, sir; she would let me
play more, instead fstudying all the time, if she
only knew that driving the hoop was called edu-
cation
The teacher smiled and roceeded-'What-
ever calls forth your affections and strengthens
them, whatever directs and subdues your pas
sions, whatever cultivates your virtues, is part
of your moral education
'Then,' said the same lively little girl, that is
what my mother means when she says there is a
lesson for you, Anne? every time any one of the
family does any good thing. 1t seems to me
am educating all the time
you are Annette world is your school and
good examples are your very best lessons
Whatever unfolds the faculties of the mind, i'm
proves your talents and augments your stores Of
knowledge is part of your intellectual educa
| ton.
'Whateror improves your capacity for domes
tic affairs, or for business of any sort, is part O
your economical education Now you will per
coiye from what have said, that education il
not confined to schools and colleges, but that al
Anne has very well remarked, we are educating
all the time Nor is the conduct of education
confined to protested teachers; we arc educating
one another.
While am teaching you geography and ar
tmetlc, you are perhaps trying my patience, o
by your own patience calling forth my gratitude
# make progress is these virtues, you are help
ing on moral education.
The knowledge you impart to one another
the kindness you receive, the love you exchange
are all part of your educaton When yo
learn to sweep room, to make a bed, or a Gu
of tea, shirt, or a loaf of bread, you are gettin
OIL in your education
Every thing around us, my children, ma
; help forward this great work The sun, tn
moon, and the stars teach their sublime lessons
I, Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unit
, night showeth knowledge The seasons max
revelations The rain and snow, dews and frost
: the trees and rocks, fruits and flowers plants
: herbs, the very stones and grass we tread upon
are full of instructions to these who study then
| 'All the events and circumstances of your live
are contributing to your education. Your class
mate, Lucy Davis, has been absent from schoC
the last two months, Reflect on what | hay
= been saying to you, and then tell me whateve
/ Lucy, during this time, though she has not lool
f ed into school-book, has made any progress
e her education.
The girls were silent and thoughtful for fe
: moments. Maria Jarvis spoke first
: Lucy's economical education, as you call
: sir she said, has been going on, for she h;
llad the care Oh lle FAMILY ana every thlng to d
: all through her mothers Illness
/ And guess she has been going on in he
: moral education nterposed little Mary Levi
e for never saw any body so patient as she w
st with her mothers cross baby
}. And she has not lost this opportunity for il
e proving in her religious education, resumed IL
l. teacher. You all saw her yesterday at h
If mothers funeral, subduing the grief of her lit
II sisters by her quiet resignation and afFectiona
r devotion to them All, she had been taking lie
sons in more important branches of educate
. than are taught in schools
$50 you see, my dear children that life is
SCHOOL, primary school; and that we are
scholars, and are all preparing for day of e
, animation, when the infalIibe Judge will deci'
how we have profted by our means of educ