The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1857-04-30
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EDUCATION.
NO. IL.
ITS AIMS AND METHODS.

ITS AIMS AND METHODS.
Education, in its broad st sense sa leadinp ont.
a development Of the various powers of body and
mind. In its highest sense and the only one
worthy TO engage the lifelong and earnest facul-
ties of an immortal being it is DEVELOPMENT of
all that is good, noble AMI truthful generous, low
ing and beautiful a subduing aud eradicating
whatever is ba!eu or truthful or ignoble and bear
ing the mind gently on toward that glorious perec
ton which we hope 70 attain in an endless here.
after.
In the physical world, u war for power aud do
minon is waging ever. So in the human soul, be
tween truth and falsehood virtue and vice. Who
can look out without painful emotion, upon the
great battlefield, and behold the strangely differ
ing combatants thronging its crowded arena p
Each soldier wears his leaders uuirorm-upon
each brow rests the signet orlauGable or base con-
troll. Each bears in his bosom a well.sprinr o!
life, OF joy and beauty which gloriies the happy
home of those pure and trusting ones whom God
hath given to his manly keeping and in bright,
gushing streams flows forth in genial influence upon
all around him Or like the fabed waters of the
Dead S.a, gathers in his oathed embrace. the mis-
cradle victims whom fate hath linked with his dark
ened destiny, and rolls back upon socetya terri
bic Hood, all seethng with crime and DEATH And
this, too, is Education Each human soul now
leacher-fiow Pupil and each accountable for
the lessons imparted-the lessons received.
In the political world, the aim Of Education is
the total overthrow OF tyranny, oppression and
wrong to draw all nations into one vast bIother-
hood ofenlightened harmony, bound by the mystic.
al tie OF Charity and Love. In the ntellectua,
she would disarm bigotory and prejudice; arouse
Incidence and apathy, and lead the captive mind
forth into the beaming light of wisdom and knowl-
edge. She would take in her own the soft palm
of the little child, look down through the loving
depths Of its clear eyes into its pure heart gently
guide its yearning thoughts out into the fowcry
fields oi science, literature and arts carefully en-
abling it to avoid the poison and the nght-shade
and gather only those bright germs of soul of
feeling and of intellect which are more pre-
cious far than all the shining treasures, deep
buried in the darksome mine. Aye, she would fam
call forth, strengthen and avigorate all the noble
and god-!ike powers which pcrchance lie hidden
away, like pearls on oceans bed, in the minds OF q
countless host of carth's weary dcspoudinr CHI
dren and only wait her svbi voice, to rouse into
action, energies which, like the unslumbering eve
Of Deity, will rest again-ucycr
Behold the boundles5 fruits of her wondrous
teachings! They lie all along your crowded path
way, and lrom her radiant wings, bright showers
are fang--saIling ever, Worlds have been
brought up from the bosom Of unknown seas
subdned and peOplel Mighty inventions, wrought
out from the heated laboratory Of many burn
ing btain have flashed with meteor brightness up
on the startled world but unIil$a the fading lnc.
teo?ther light shines on with undying brilliancy-,
and who shall say to the immortal mind, thus far
shalt thou 60, and no farther p None but lie
whose finger shall dot poriol to eternity itself.
Tie aim of Elucatlonshan, is " Excesior''-On-
ward-Upward- Iligher-Highcr
Ol the methods Of Education il is impossible
here TO speak with justice, and We deem it difficult
even TO allude TO them in the short space allotted
us, for whatever is to be impressed upun the mind
must be adapted to the capacity Of the mind 10
be acted upon, and none but the teacher can so
adapt it.
" There moments, think, when the spirit receives
Whole volumes of thought on its unwriten leaves"
Patiently, praycrfulIy, hopefully should the
teacher await those blessed moments, faint shad-
owings of Heavens pure light, then earnestly strive
to enstamp upon each immortal sopl an impress
worthy the glorious destiny of ctemi,y--an impress
which will deepen aud brighten ever, unto the
" perfect day" But, alas how often are "whole
volumes - Of throbbmg, beautiful thoughts poured