New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-26
.,rprc1y VOMANS EDUCATIONAL As
ANU ~ "-' ISOLATION.

IT, o,r,sl meeting Of this Society was held at Mrs.
wsb.trs = No. II Lexington avenue, May l6, b. w.
Benney, esq. the President IN the chair
r. ,euoit of the Treasurer read and approved.
Tbe Animal Report was read by the Corresponding
secyciary the Rev. W. L. Parsons.
Tge leading views and aims Of the Association were
s,;eay rccapituated a. follows
That there is yet gndcyeoPed calling for
Socsior worthy 20 be nhed with the title Of profession
Tss woman in the process o her eduos,on and as an edu
Gator entitled to the faculty principle enjoyed by men in
This, for the better support female teachers
are ~ appropriately due 20 a o ma
has the claim for the specific education
which shall TT her for the departments Of responsibility
"the anu OF the human mind and laying the foundations OF
eharace the Of the body infancy and sickness
snd conservation Of the family state the other
the specific training which qualities them for their not
more important difficult professions in life.
The Association regards right early Christian edu-
cation the greatest power for good and the most
worthy 10 command universal attention of any work
upon earth. They urge that woman is not now pro-
perry educated and trained either for her great work
as the essential moral educator of the race in child
hood and youth, at home and at school, or for the
overwhelming responsibilities which belong TO her
during her whole life az the chief conservaor all its
departments Of the morals of society.
This Association seeking to establish institutions
which shall educate woman according to the views
thus set administrations which shall be 10
what the colleges are to men, Two such schools are
in operation at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and at Du-
buQue Iowa, with large number of pupils, the means
to endow winch this Association seeking to
raise.
The Report then proceeds with an argument 10 show
that the work they have in view, instead Of being
garded A. minor and secondary ought to command
the earnest cooperation of all good men and women.
and be contributed to freely and promptly till It's
wants supplied, any other known mode Of doing
good.
The argument shows logical and necessary connec-
lion between the right training of early life and the sub
sequent character Of Individuals ard communities;
that woman is the dviney appointed agent to whom
is committed this early training of the mlnd to night
habits and character; that woman Is now trained to be
dependent in society rather than supporter OF some
of its mort absolute interests which, in the nature OF
things are dependent upon her; and that from this
reversed order of dependence, society mas more 10 rear
than from anything ele.' ,
Two sorts of agencies employed for be:tering the
condition of society /. Publishing and sending forth
printed truths in bibles, tracts books, &c z Educa
ing and sending forth living agents to communicate
fhe truth to other minds. The latter is ncompara6ly
the most important. Then, among the agencies which
qualify and send out living labOrers, that ls the most
important which supplies the most appropriate work
ems to the most hopeful field. The most hopeful field
doubtless is childhood, and woman is the more appro.
pirate abOrer Here the labor is both preventive ana
curative of evil. The promise OF success to parents
TO those who their seed in the soil OF Childhood Is
more positive than TO pastors who cultivate the stony
thorny and burnt-over ground of later life
This argument, said the Report, cannot be met by
the easy declcartOn that "every agent thinks his
course the best but is submitted as one which Will
bear reflection.
Contributions are sought for this very important
work and may be sent to the Corresponding Secre-
tary the Rev. w. l.. Parsons, of Cyrus w.
held d Co., New-YOrk City.