The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1859-09-01
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''Those only may be truly said to know,
Whose knowledge pays their country what they
owe"
The best system Of Education, we defined in
paper No. l., to be that combination of means
best adapted to prepare humanity to fulfill the
ends of their cxistance. We are led next to ell.
quire, is such system of means discoverabe q
if So its nature and results.
II will be admitted that each OF the threo
components of mans natare. to wit: his mental,
moral and physical nature, in order TO their in
dividual development must Le ndividua lily acted
upon, while ut the same time it must also be
conceded tina: in order to the perfect develop
ment of man unit this individual develop
ment must be cOrrelative and harmonious. To
nlustratc-the active mind encased in feeble
body, while 1t may present the spectacle of II
perfect development Of the intellectual exhibits
at the san,o time the pitful spectacle Of total
destruction of the physical powers. The same
may be snid with reference to the intellectual
and moral. Thousands and thousands of instan-
will readily suggest themselves to the mind
even in the ordinary range Of ones acquaint
ance. So too in relation to the moral and physical
nature, although in the latter instance perhaps not
exhibited Now, If the body, mind and moral feel.
ings were all brought into harmon ious exercises,
by cultivnting each individually, would not
boys aud girls be stronger, wiser and better than
they aro? Would not our men of genius ex-
orcise more controlling influence for good upon
the worldf Would not our legislators legislate
moro for tho country aud less for themselves {
Would not our poets, PHILOSOPHERS and sagcs all
become more like what these terms express, than
they do at PRESENT. Common sense must
swer affir'natively all these questions.
Then why ignore system, thus backed by
common sense, for one which detorms the phys-
cal, cramps the intellectual and dcsecrates the
moral nature by association with sectional
prrjudicesi What pedagogue ever felt that he
| could say Amen! while Thompson sings
Delightful task TO rear the tender thought;
| To teach the young idea how to shout?
Beautiful indeed is the idea in poetry, but real
balderdash in practice. under the present sys.
tenn Of preparatory training.
| To make u boy man, you must make him n
man physically, aud that can only he done By
training, directing and guiding his physical pow
ers. 1t cannot be done by fifteen years of sub.
| lection to the routine of modern mode school.
IT'S Education forms the manly powers.
| No fruit is seen where nature yields no flow
ers. We may remark then that the body
should receive the first lessons of education, for
us nature has intended it for the caslet of tho
1nind and produces it ere the first gllmnering
| spark of intelligence is discoverable, we should
conclude that analogy would teach what nature
directs and prompts-the education of the physi-
cal part Of our nature first. And to this
subject we invite the attention of parents and
teachers i'll our next number namely; the Phvs j.
cal Education Of children practically consiLered
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