Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1853-05-11
VOL. 81. 10.
EDUCATION OF TnE HEART.

II sthe vice Of The age to Substitute learn.
ing for wisdom; to educate the head and for
get that there is a more importan, education
necessary for the heart. The reason is cult
waited al an age when nature does not furnish
the elements necessary to . successful cult
walton Of il. aud the child is solicited to re-
Election when i. is only capable Of sensation
and emotion. In infancy the attention aud
the memory are only excited strongly by the
senses. and move the heart, The father may
instil more solid aud available instruction ID
sa hour speut in the fields. where wisdom
and goodness are exempli6ed, seen and felt.
than n mouth spent in the study, where they
are expressed IN stereotyped aphorisms
! No physician doubts that precocious chil.s
/ dren. City cases for one, are much the verso
I FOR the discipline they have undergone The
mind seems to have been strained, aud the
foundation for insanity Is laid.
When the studies Of mature years are stus.
fed into the bead Of the child people do NOT
reflect on the anatomical fact. that the brain
Of an infant is not the brain Of man; tia.
the one il confirmed and can bear exurticn
aud tie other is growing and requires repose.
that to force the attention to abstract facts,
to load the memory With chronological ard
historical or scientific detail 10 short, to ex.
peot child's brain to bear with IMMUNITY the
exertions Of mans ia as irrational as II
woald bc 10 hazzard The same sort Of export.
ments on its muscles.
The FIRST eight or ten years Of life should
, he devoted to the edacation Of the heart to
the formation Of principles. rather than to the
requirement Of what is usually termed knowl.
edge. Nature herself points cut this course.
, for the emotions are the lveliest and mos,
/ easily moulded being as yet unalloyed by
passion. 1t il from this source the mass Of
men are hereafter to show their sum Oh hap
piness or misery. The actions Of the immense
majority are under all circumstances, deter
mined much more BY feeling than reflection
i in truth, life presents happiness that ws
o should feel rightly; very few instances occur
where il is necessary that We shoule think
. profoundly.
Up to the seventh year Of life, very great
changes are going on in the structure Of the
! brain, and demand, therefore, the utmost at
!, tention. not TO Interrupt them by improper CT
j over excitement. just that degree Of cxcr.
!, else should be given to the brain at this pc
!, riod that is necessary to its health; and the
best is moral instruction, exempliicd By tie
- objects which strike the senses.
i 1t is. perhaps. necessary 10 add. that at
this period Of life special attention should be
- lgiven, both by parents and teachers, to the
i physical development of the child. Pure air
il and exercise are indispensable; and where
Ger they are Withheld the consequences will
: be certain to oxtend themselves over the
whole future life.
. The seeds of p.otracted and hopeless suf-
b ferings have, in innumerable instances, been
! sown 10 tie constitution Of the child, simply
!. through ignorance Of this great fundamental
physical law aud the time has come when
a the united voices Of these innocent victims
r. should ascend, trumpet tongued.' TO the
ears of every parent and teacher in the land.
: Give us fresh Dir and wholesome exercise.
leave our expanding energies TO be developed
in accordance to the laws Of our being, and
full scope for the elastic and bounding i'm
> pulses Of our young blood = Quarterly Re-
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