Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-10-26
&aSies' 9tpmtmtnt.
Mrs. N. E. eoRMAN. Editre.s-
EDUCATE YOUR CHILDREN.
BY /. D. BARRows.

VFVVfkC INf tts wv
Undoubtedly money, to q certain extent and
With q proper instructions respecting il, it
should DO provided. Yet We give it as. our
deliberate opinion, that in nine cases out OF
ten such q provision proves detrimental to
the education, industry and frugality OF chill
dren, and not unfrequcntly to the moral char
acter, and in the end Of life to their financial
condition. This Is not o necessary result
but a natural and common one. When treas
ured wealth becomes the dependence Of chill
dren, few parents or children have the wis
dom and energy to enforce the application,
physical or mental, which, is productive but
on the other hand, leads directly TO the idle
ness extravaganza and dissipation which ru-
lns. This is not the fault Of the money, but
parental management
2. Parents should provide for the future
health Of their children. This is to be done
by a proper and continual care Of their diet,
exercise and rest. TnattRntion TO these little
matters lays the foundation for dyspeptic
stomachs, enfeebled constitutions, diseased
lungs, and makes sure an carly grave, after a
briefand suffering existence.
With the young, no healthy condition Of
4 body or mind can be attained without power
ful and continual restraints. Youthful i'm
pulses and a~ppetites cannot DO trusted. All
nature IS gOycTped by rsstF6ei"'esq uilibrium
OF the universe is sustained by nothing else +;
aud all human happiness, like our earth from
Its orbit would leave us by q tangent flight
when checks and balances are removed.
Said the mother Of John and Charles Yves
ley, "The first step to form the mind Of a
child is 10 conquer its will. When once sub
., dued, then many indulgences can be safely
4. granted"
Gil a --.lA- NU-1.Nl. 100 aAnnk IL 1sa
for the fatal blow he had dealt poor Parkman
not In malice but in rage-'In early child
hood, mine was a quick and off-handed tenn
per, pAich Uos acper su6dued. / was a pct
tod and INDUCED child, and all this is the en-.
ding Of it." Restraints are necessary for the
young.
3. Good habits should be provided for the
future Of children. This We would apply tc
intellectual, social and moral life and charac
ter. Habit is that tendency of our nature
TO repeat physical or mental action. IT.
power is palpable to all; and it is just a
great for good, when properly inaugurnted, a
Il 10 when for evil left to its own driftings.-
But early, o how carly, is this great ques
ton settled with children by the influence Q
parents and teachers
Such was the confidence of Lycurgus i
the power Of habit coming Of education, b
Is said to have left none Of his laws for th
SpArtans in writing-believing that what's
over children were taught and accustomed
do, they would follow.
4. Parents arc under obligations toproyiC
an education for their children. Education
usually said to consist oftwo parts, mental d
velopment, and acquisition Of knowledge; b
We think il has a third part-the tormati
of character. Character does not depel
wknlly ru kanEe gnhno1o ~ ,nkaltacf fhntt,
these have much to do in forming it. As
etat>s and daily habit connected therewi
have quite as much, and even more to do W
this result A sharp eyed and sagacious
server will not overlook this yet how ma
q arc ignorant Of, or Indifferent to this fact,
thoy nro roused'to tho lamentable consequ
cesl Tho following considerations will
press parents and guardians with the t
value Of education:
/. As q means of support or livelihood,
Dor, physical or mental, is the divinely
pointed condition Of the necessaries, comic
: and Injuries OF life. Money, properly val
and used, a trade, or education, are all the
sential provisions which can DO made for t
Scion, recognizing this parental obligat
enacted a law that no child should DO III
obligations to support a parent in old age
less such q parent had previously taught
CUNNA - LAR0Os 0AA9kL ~ ia VIZ VI
Atrade, is some provision for support, as
moro ~.remunerative than uneducAted /;
having been secured at considerable exp
But who pauses to contrast the L.onieC
vestment Of o good education win sue
Investment hardly less expensive A
seamstress receives from one hundred
nhy to two hundred dollars per annu
good teacher from three to Eve hundr
good carpenter, or bricklayer, may II
from Eve to six hundred q good te'
minister, lawyer, or physician, from Ell
afa0sa AanAFsSSa " Nb bsd ne fbro~a :,
But this is tho lowest and most mo,a".
OF tho value Of education.
>. Education is a means of rnt;onoy
mont. God designed and proyidcd fc
ior the greatest amount Of human ham
Inc pleasures Of knowledge are knowp
10 the learned. What and where nv
napplest homes in our worlds Wbor
Iellgence virtue and religion are the .
Inks binding together the human cir
Low many such happy homes could
ooeh lounr IN tho age Of Pericles or A
1na when parental aud flial relations
httlo sanctity or permanency
proportion as education. civ;l;zat;o
Snristianity have prevailed, so has h,
happiness. All enjoyments aside from
Sou,ces are grovellng, and degrading to ,
n.gnest and noblest nature. and destri
OF bis eternal interests.
8. Education, it will be -rememhorod
powerful means Of usefulness amons or
low men. "Knowledge" Is power for
or evil Benevolence and religion eovet
or to do good, and 1t Is anon the :
gitts' legitimately coveted. Men. and w
are powerful for doing good, in proporti
they arc knowing. Who are the most
persons now in society," Ministers, tear
editors, authors, and parents, if well in
ca How very guilty and barbarous '
parent feel who should cramp and par
forever the feet or hands Of bis child 40
dlsqualify 1t for labor during lifel Y
ne troats the immortal mind takes av,
power, and dwarfs it for time and etcr
THIS, too, with the voice of our great
ringing IN our ears, "7rain up a child.
God is pleased and honored in e
ton. Ho designed man for. wisdom. /"
the soul be without knowledge Is not o
DO says. ,"Get wisdom, and with all tn,
nngs, got understanding" 'Hear, o Is
DC says, and then he becomes our tea
when the prophets could teach no
lie hath in these last days spoken to
hs Son." No man taught like him.
Ignorance, sin and suffering 90. ha,
hand. God is seen and known more No