The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1853-02-22
Eirc,.ion Of The H,ar..

1t is tho vice OF the age to substitute learn
ing for wisdom to educate tho head and for
get that there is moro important education
necessary Tor the heart. The reason is culti-
waited nj an age when nature does not furnish
the elements necessary To successful cul.ss-
ton OF it; aud the child is solicited to reflcct cton
when it is only CAPABLE of sensation and cmo-
ton. sIn infancy the attention and the mcnior
ry arc only excited strongly by tho senses and
more the heart. The f.tho- may instill moro
solid and avsilable Instructions in an hour
spent in the fields whore wis, o and goo6n,ss
arc cxcmplifed. seen and felt, than n month
spont in the study, where they are cxpoundcd
in stcreutyped aphorism.
No phyeici,ii doubts prccocious children
Fifty cases for on", are much the worse for tho
discipline they havo undergone. The mind
seems to have been strained, and the founda-
tion for insanity is laid.
When Tho studies of mature years arc stuff.
cd into the head ofthe child. people do rot ro-
feet on the onaiimical fact, that The b'ain ofon
infant i not tho brain of man; thut tho oneis
confirmed, and can bear exerions, and the 9th
or is growing and requires rcposc; that to forco
The attention TO abstract facts; to load the mem.
ory With chronological and historical or scien
iifc detail; in short TO expect a chids brain TO
bear with mpunity the cxertons of mans is
MS irrational as il would be to hazard tho same
scrt Of experiments OH its muscles.
The first eight or ten years of life shonld bo
devoted to the education of the hcart--to tho
formation of principles, rather than to tho ac-
qrircment of what is usually termed knowl-
edge. Nature herself points out this course,
for the emotions are the livelics, and most ca
sily moulded beng-as vet unalloyed by pass.
ion. 1t IS IroU tiIis sVsrvv ,iso .r,.se or ~
are hereafter 10 show their sum of happiness.
or misery, The actions ofthe immense major
Z IL Inta trfx.nA II
much more by feeling than reflection: III truth.
life presents a happiness that wo should focl
rightly; very few instances occur where 1t 10
necessary that VIC should think profoundly.
- Tn to tho seventh of life. very great chan
pes IRE going on in the structure of tho braln
and de.nani therefore. the utmost attention,
not to i,torfup, them by impfopcr or over cx;
citemcn'. just that degree of exercise should
be given 10 the brain ut this period that is nee
cssary 10 its health: and the best Is moral ir-
st,ucton. exemplifcd by tho objects which
STRIKE the serscs.
II is pe-hsps necessary to add. that at this
period of life special stcnIion should be given
both by parents aud tcachcrs TO the physical
dovc,opme,it of the child. Pure air ard exer-
else are Indispensable: and whenever they arc Z
withheld. tho consequences will be certain TO
extend themselves over tho whole future life.
The socds If protrac'cd and hopeless suffer-
has ha,o in innumcrablc irs'anccs, been sown
in tho constitution of,hc child, amply through
Ignorance If this great Fundamental physical
law; and the time has CONS when the united
voices If these innocent victims should ascend,
'.tr, pct tongucd." TO the oars of every parcnt
and teacher IN the lard. Give Us fresh air and
wboesome exercise. leave our expanding ener-
cies 10 be developed in accordance 10 the laws
of our being, md full scope for the elastic and
bounding impulses Of our Young blood,