, 1860-04-10
4rc&8 Tribtttte.
TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1860.

The Education Of the Heart.
We commend the subjoined judicious remarks
from the London Quarterly Rsrieu to the dis
eliminating intention aud regard as well Of pa-
rents as teachers. They contain an important
principle in reference to tho education of the
young, aud one which cannot be to carefully
needed.
It il the rice Of the age 10 substitute learning
for wisdom-to educate the head and forget
that there is a more important education necea-
sary for the heatt. The reason is cultivated at
an agc when nature does not furnish the ele.
ments necessary 10 successful cultivation of
it =: and the child is solicited to reflection when
he is only capable Of sensation and smot1on. Iu
infancy the attention aud the memory are only
excited strongly By things which impress the
Senses aud more the heart, and father shall
instll more solid aud available instruction in an
goodness are exempli6ed, seen and felt, than in
q month spent in study, where they are ex-
pounded in stereotype aphorisms.
=. No physician doubts that prccocinus children,
in fitty cases for one, are much worse for the
discipline they hare undergone. The mind
seems to hare been strained. and tho founda-'
tions ior insanity are laid. When the studies
head, people do not reflect On the anatomical
fact that the brain Of m infant is not the brain
Of man, that the one is confirmed and can bear
cxertion-the other is growing and requires re-
pose; that to force the attention to abstract
facts--to load the memory with Chronological
and historical and scientific detai1s-in short. to
expect child's brain to bear with impunity the
exertiou Of a mans. ia just as rational as it
would be TO hazard the same sort Of experiment
on its muscle.
The first eight ortcn years of life should be
devoted to the education Of the heart-to the
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quirament Of what il usually termed knowledge.
Nature herself points out such a course for
the emotions are then the liveliest, and most
easily moulded, being rs yet unalIoycd by pns-
aion. It is from this source that the mass of
men aEe hvreFfter to draw their sum Of happi.
mesa OF misery; the actions Of the ilnmcnse
majority nre, under all circumstances, deter
m,ned much more by feeling than by reflection; !;
in truth, life presents IN 1nfinity Of occasions
where it is essential to happiness that We
should feel rightly very few where it is at all
necessary that we should think profoundly.
Up to the seventh year Of life, very great
changes are going on i1 the structure Of the
tlou not to interrupt them by improper or over
excitement. Just that degree Of exercise
should be given to the brain at this period is
ora, instruction, e1emplilled By objects which
strike the senses.
Its perhaps unnecessary to add that at this
period Of life. special attention should be giren,
both " parents and teachers. to the physical
Development Of the child. Pure air aud free
exercise are Indispensable, aud wherever either
Of these ara Withheld, the consequences will be
certain to extend themselves oyer the whole
future life. The seeds Of protracted md hope.
less sut1eriuEs have in inhnmerable instances
been gown into the constitution Of the child
simply through ignorunce Of ttis great funda,
men.as steal law; and the time las CONF
whec ,.'"ed roices Of these innocent VIC.
tins e;:> -. .;end, "trumpettougucd." to the
ears Of eser5 parent and every teacher il The
land. "Gise Us FREQ air and wholesome exer.
c.ses; leaye to develop our expanding energie,
in accordance with the laws Of our being, ant
full scope for the elastic and bounding impulse.
| Of our young blood"