Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-06-20

VIRTUE ESSENTIAL TO EDUcAT1oN.-The young
Prince Of Waes lad Of about thirteen or fourteen,
has, It seems, already by sad mixture Of boyishness
and dissipation, given no little uneasiness 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, power and religion of all England with its
State Church at their backs the royal pair possess
ing no little education and taste themselves find the
same difficulty that George Ill did, and all other
kings KIN have done from Henry M downwards-the
difficulty of providing the right kind of moral educa.
ton for one born the heir apparent 10 the British
throne. This arises in part, no doubt from the
omaly of his position. He is child educated with
the knowledge that he is day to be king
over every inhabitant of Great Britain and its
dependencies. embracing hundreds of millions of
human beings, with territory on which the sun
Fever SETS lad with his head filled with these
ideas by those whose interest it is to fat
ter and indulge all the whims of child, in hopes of
being remembered hereafter by the powerful young
man, may we'll have his head turned had he the wis
est as well as the best of mothers.
But the erroneous principle here involved is far
more extensive than is commonly supposed. The
man who has risen by his own industry from pow
erty to wealth, sends his to college, and in
few months perhaps that child who had been brought
up carefully and with none but the best of moral
example, comes home hopeessly dissipated, having
learned only to squander the fortune for which
parent has toed. His daughters go TO fashionable
seminary, and come home with an education of
superficial eegancies but with minds of no strength
and judgments only sufficiently developed to despse
the industry of their parents, knowing nothing that
will be useful t. them in after li(e and then running
away with the first French dancing master NOUS
tached companion in sleigh ride.
Another man sees this and resolves to bring his
children up to business, as he was brought up. He
sends all his children simply to the public schools
But still he finds that his girls only learn to sit at
home read novels and after and inifa TO
stocrac ways fthe young ladies across the street,
who snub them, until perhaps, they are drawn out
by some spiritual association Of table rappers while
the boys are carried away by some half dozen isms
and ologaes one after another, become the victims
and dupes of every tnerant lecturer or fall into the
various manias of designing knaves, and speculate
first in merino sheep, then in morus multcauis and
Shanghaes, UNTIL after various adventures, in which
they alternately have cheated and been cheated,
ruined in pocket and in character, they try "the
political DODGE" become agents and tools of some
designing knaves parties. and, by lies and fraud,
gather and send off other dupes more foolish than
themselves, for any mad adventure in the Crimea or
Nicaragua
Moral education is as positive thing intellectual
culture. 1t is the training of the percept and of
the will, that they shall correctly perceive and
resoutely follow the law of right and justice. of
goodness and proprey in all the relations of life they
sustain. For instance let it only be impressed upon
the mind of every youth from the prince to the pea
sant that no one rich poor, has any right to
sumo without producing i'll some way !; and that one
principle would do more than anything else take
assumption and dissipation out of youths of station
and wealth, and to eradicate the airs and fopperes
from the Sophomore, no s4uanders fortune in his
College course. 1t would save vast multtudes from
the folly and wickedness of trying by any and every
means, to make fortune by one bold stroke instead
OF the hard iabors of years of honest industry.
NORFOLK argus.