The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-11-05
educational Department

"Youth Is the most impossible period in
hfs." 1t is impossible for any one to DO
happy or fulfil their high destiny without
an education because every one, by nature,
has desire to be, or to do something that
is worthy Of one possessing those God-given
powers which distinguishes the educated
man from the savage and the brute. .--t
Man is a being Of education-should it
not, then, be woven or incorporated into
his very existence. 1t should be a deep
seated principle, rather than On evanescens
thing. Ignorance and knowledge arc an
tagonistical. Our faculties are strengthened
BY use, and weakened by disuse. The head
and heart must be truly educated, or igno-
rance ana vice will reign supreme. The
education Of the child shoud commence in
its infancy. Is it necessary that your child
should learn thousand vices before it is
old enough to learn one truth?
Parent, if your child is not at school,
treasuring his mind with scientific truth, he
will be on the streets, becoming familiar
with all the vices of the day. If you don't
SOW good seed for them in their youth, they
will heap curses on your gray hairs. If l
were to ask you who are the great and good
men of our country, you would point me to
Washington, and others, whose education
commenced in their infancy, who were never
allowed to pass a day without receiving one
lesson of useful instruction..
Mothers, would you have the heads and
hearts Of your children the receptacle of
pride, envy, hatred, malice, revenge, and
falsehood- with a bosom that every wild
passion rankles in it-would have them the
receptacle of all that is noble, great and
good? If the last, remember well the i'm
portauce then, Of improving every moment
as it passes.
For the educational"
Mr.. EpIToR-Sir:-Being reader of the
Nonpdreil, and, Of course, of the "Educa-
tonal Department" and feeling very much
interested in the improvement of our COM
mon schools, and the general diffusion of
knowledge throughot this bright and gIori
Gus West, dared to pen these few rambling
thoughts, and offer them to you for publ
cation, knowing that too much cannot be
said or done in favor of the thorough edu-
cation Of the masses.
SO long as children are allowed to grow
up in ignorance, just so long will our gov
eminent be corrupt. And, so long as they
are permitted to spend their youth in idle
ness, just so long will our jails and peniten-
tiares be filled.
Let children be taught the value of time
and good education, in pleasant, cheer
ful school, with noble, devoted teacher as
their guide and example, who is constantly
melting them, both by precept and example,
TO the noble aims of life, and, depend upon
it, such children will not grow to be men
and women with evil in their hearts. No
they lave draak too deep of wisdom's cup,
and supped too long at the pure fount of
learning, to leave it for the Shiny waters of
ignorance and vice. May god speed the
day when, in every village and town in our
fourishing State, there will be reared a
school, house-not little log hut, but a
noble buiiding-such one as any American
would be proud to own-one that We could
gaze upon with joy, and say, "our children
are educated there"
VIOLA.
c. Answer to last Enigma: "Grace
Greenwood