True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1856-02-06
POSITIVE VIRTUE ESSENTIAL TO
EDUCATION.

ulSslpduob, giving no llltie uneaSlnesS to
The maternal heart of the Queen, who has
honestly enough, no doubt tried all that
mother could, to keep him out Of harms
way. With the education, learning, pow
er and religion of al! England, with its
State Church a. their backs, the royal |
pair, possessing no little education and
taste themselves, find the same difficulty
that George III. did, and all other kings
have done from Henry HI downwards-I
bthe difficulty of providing the right kind
of moral education for one born the heir
apparent to the British throne. This ari-
ses in part, no doubt, from the anomaly
of his position. lie is child educated
with the knowledge that he is one day TO
be king, the king over every inhabilant
Of Great Britain and its dependencies,
embracing hundreds of millions Of human
beings, with territory on which the sun
never sets "A lad withRis head filled
with these ideas, surrounded by those
whose interest it is 10 fatter and indulge
all the whims of child, in hopes of being
remembered hereafter by the powerful
tyoung man, may well have his head turn
ed, had he the wisest as we'll as the best
of mothers.
But the erroneous principle here in-
volvcd is far more extensive than is COM
monty supposed. The man who has ris-
en- by his own industry from poverty to
wealth, sends his son to college, and in a
; few months, perhaps, that child who had
: been brought up SO carefully and with
none but the best OF moral example, comes
Y home hopelessly diSsipaled, having learn
: cd only TO squander the fortune for which
i a parent has ,oiled. His daughter goes
!, 10 fashionable seminary, and comes
b home with an education of superficial ell.
egancies, but with minds of no strength
e and judgments only sufficiently developed
n to desplse the industry of their parents
it knowing nothing that will be useful tc
o them in after life, and then running away
o with the first French dancing master, OF
= moustached companion of a sleigh ride
ot Another man sees. this, and resolves t,
is bring his children up to business, as hi
i was brought up. He sends all his chill
lie children simply to the public schools
le But still he finds that his girls only learl
N to sit at home, read novels and sigh afte
J. and initiate the aristocratic ways Of tn
is young ladies across the street, who snu
lie them, until perhaps, they are drawn ou
o. by some spiritual association of table rap
en- pers; while the boys are carried away b
10 some half dozen iSmS and OlogieS one a
ee ter another, become the victims and dupt
he of every itinerant lecturer, or fall into tt
N various maaias of designing knaves, an
a, speculate first in merino sheep, then
ng morus multicauls and Shanghais, unit
ng after various adventures, in which the
'ss have alternately cheated and been chea
i'll, ed, ruined in pocket and in character, the
try ''the political dodge" become agen
ler and tools Of some designing knaves or pa
re. ties, and, by lies and fraud, gather al
it send off other dupes, more foolish III;
On themselves, for any mad adyenturer in Il
- Crimea or Nicaragua.
ltic There are, perhaps, the largest porti
ere of risks and failures as we ascend to t
-. higher style of education; but, in all classt
,dy from the highest to the lowest, there a
ny, enough to show The want of suficle
her breadth and compass in the present cure
ideas of education; a development Il
shall strengthen the baart against viz
we and the seduclions OF Aattery--what m
the be termed a conservative education, p
lrSt tectjng the mind of youth from being
ned dupes of one sham after another; this
and what is now needed in all the walks of Ii
ex- more than any mere intellectual devel
The ment. In word, mere mental culN
m withoutproportionable moral developme
the is not true education. Merely to kee
on youth innocent and out Of all exposur,
ain temptation is not what is here intend
hem that only weakens the ruling princi
Ped and thus it is that, in multiludes of Ca
il all this goodness and early promise "
and and withers and dies before the first
new duc,ion that offers, as snow before
sun. The want of proper and guar
exposure 10 evil is one great cause of
90 success of en,or
900 On the contrary. moral education il
Nc. positive thing as intellectual cul'ur
.Ea. 1t is the training of ths' perceptions
of the will, so that they will correctly
ceivc and resolutely follow tho law
w right and justice, Of goodness and pro
ETY. in all the relations of life they susI
~. For instance, lei it only be impressed
,,,,,, on the mind Of every youth in Engli